Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Prati and Senik (with ungated earlier version here) propose a rescaling of happiness data using retrospective and current life evaluations, and show using their rescaled data that, among other results, the happiness of Americans has substantially increased from the 1950s to the early 2000s
- Johannesen and Muchardt (open access) test whether female scholars in economics are held to higher standards than males in the US and Europe, and find no evidence that standards are higher for females across faculty appointments, network invitations, grant awards, and editor appointments
- Choi finds that adding a healthcare copayment of $1 in Korea reduces monthly outpatient visits by 10 percent, with effects concentrates in low-value care, such as the inappropriate use of antibiotics
- Ozsoy and Rodríguez-Planas (with ungated earlier version here) find that students who took advantage of a flexible grading policy at Queen's College (City University of New York) during the COVID-19 pandemic underperformed once the policy was no longer available, with a cumulative GPA 0.11 standard deviations lower in Spring 2021 than in Fall 2019 relative to the change in performance of students who never used the policy
- Alonso-Armesto, Cáceres-Delpiano, and Lekfuangfu (open access) find substantial gains in mathematics and science achievement, concentrated among male students and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds when the minimum legal drinking age increases from 16 to 18 years
- Mitra (with ungated earlier version here) finds that more educated mayors in Italy boost public investment, especially in the education sector, without compromising the fiscal stability of the municipalities
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