This week in research #143

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:

• Magnuson and Ruggles (open access) explore the creation of the first census microdata sample at the US Census Bureau in the early 1960s (I had no idea it was so long ago!)
• Coelli and Borland (open access) find that the decline in the estimated return to a bachelor's degree in Australia over the period from 2001 to 2016 is potentially explained by strong earnings growth in low‐skill occupations, due to increases in real minimum and award wages, as well as possibly the mining boom
• Bonilla-Mejía et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that rising violence increases intentions, plans, and preparations to emigrate from Central America, particularly to the United States
• Delavande et al. (with ungated version here) find that student attendance at a public UK university is highly dependent on timetable structure, that students compensate for marginal non-attendance at some events with increased attendance at others within the same module, and that timetable features and attendance choices do not have systematic impacts on academic achievement
• Dang (with ungated earlier version here) finds that one additional international student per thousand working-age residents of a US local labour market increases the employment-to-population ratio by 0.19 percentage points and average hourly wages by 0.48 percent
• Frank and Vickery (open access) look at how LGB students differ from their heterosexual counterparts using data from the UK from 2012 to 2020, and find that LGB men and women both have large shifts towards Humanities subjects, where they perform better, and away from law, economics, management, and STEM, and that they have lower early-career salaries than heterosexual students