This week in research #145

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

• Guzman, McGuinness, and Turner investigate 16 'mega-universities' in the US, and report that students at these mega-universities have lower average completion rates and leave with higher average student loan debt compared to students at other schools
• Melo et al. (open access) find little evidence that higher minimum wages increase job search for low-skilled jobs, and more evidence that higher minimum wages decrease the number of workers seeking employment in these jobs (file this under surprising results on the supply side of the labour market)
• Malesky et al. (with ungated earlier version here) find that cohorts exposed to the university expansion in Vietnam are 87% more likely to have a university education, but that education increases the incidence of bribe requests and perceptions of corruption