Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Numa and Zahran (with ungated earlier version here) show that W.E.B. Du Bois made enduring contributions to economics (and may be one of the most under-rated economists of the early 20th Century)
- Federle et al. (with ungated earlier version here) study 150 years of the economic cost of war, and find that a war of average intensity is associated with an output drop of close to 10 percent in the war-site economy, while consumer prices rise by approximately 20 percent
- Passaro, Kojima, and Pakzad-Hurson (with ungated earlier version here) find that when there are more men than women in a labour market, 'equal pay for similar work' policies increase the gender wage gap
- Strulik and Trimborn (open access) show analytically that higher world population could causally lead to a lower long-run temperature increase under optimal carbon taxation (though I think that the optimal carbon taxation might be doing a lot of the work there)
- Arellano-Bover et al. (with ungated earlier version here) look into the initial job-matching of US graduates by major, and find significant variation in callback rate returns to majors, with Biology and Economics majors receiving the highest rate, particularly in occupations involving high intensity of analytical and interpersonal skills
- Xu et al. develop a geographically weighted autoregressive model with an adaptive spatial weights matrix (a bit pointy-headed for many readers of this blog, but of interest to me!)
- Li, Liu, and Si find in a meta-analysis that minimum wages actually increase female employment (showing that the question of the employment effects of minimum wages is still not solved)
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