Monday, February 1, 2021

Policymakers are not likely to repeal alcohol taxes: Too many experts testify to their necessity and too many special interest groups agree, all while receiving government grants

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Taxing Alcohol. Michael Thom. In Taxing Sin, pp 55-86, December 1 2020. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49176-5_3 Rolf Deg...

European regions with higher pre-industrial climatic variability display higher levels of trust today: Climatic risk favored the early adoption of inclusive institutions (which implies higher quality of local governments today)

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Climate Risk, Cooperation, and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions. Johannes C Buggle, Ruben Durante. The Economic Journal, ueaa127...

Is partisan conflict driven by Republicans moving to the right, or have Democrats contributed too? Are the changes symmetric, occurring for both sides? They found that symmetric partisan changes have only occurred among whites

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The Nature of Partisan Conflict in Public Opinion: Asymmetric or Symmetric? Maria Narayani Lasala Blanco, Robert Y. Shapiro, Joy Wilke. Amer...

Many of the participants with severe psychiatric conditions endorse high levels of subjective well-being; the professionals' & patients' ratings were negatively related or unrelated, showing a lack of mutual understanding of SWB

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The perception of well-being: Do people with severe psychiatric conditions and their therapists put themselves in each other’s shoes? Rocío ...

Art through the evolutionary lens

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Art through the evolutionary lens. Sonya Sammut. Times of Malta, January 31, 2021. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/art-through-the-ev...

Economics Seminars: Women presenters are treated differently than their male counterparts, are asked more questions during a seminar & the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile

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Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars. Pascaline Dupas, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Justin Wolfers, and the Seminar Dy...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Why are grandiose narcissists more effective at organizational politics? Means, motive, and opportunity

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Why are grandiose narcissists more effective at organizational politics? Means, motive, and opportunity. Charles A. O'Reilly, Jeffrey Pf...

International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists: We show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive than migrants to other countries—even after accounting for talent during one's teenage years

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Agarwal, Ruchir and Ganguli, Ina and Gaule, Patrick and Smith, Geoff, Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Sci...

Why developing good psychological theories is so hard: Relative lack of robust phenomena that impose constraints on possible theories, problems of validity of psychological constructs, & obstacles to discovering causal relationships

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The Theory Crisis in Psychology: How to Move Forward. Markus I. Eronen, Laura F. Bringmann. Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2...

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born

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Abramitzky, Ran, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jacome and Santiago Perez. 2021. "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States ov...

The EU states with the highest levels of gender equality, such as the Nordic countries, have disproportionally high prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence against Women (the Nordic Paradox)

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Intimate Partner Violence against Women in the EU: A Multilevel Analysis of the Contextual and Individual Impact on Public Perceptions. Mati...

Swedish Twin Pairs: A common argument is that the wealthy practice patrimonial voting, i.e. voting for right-wing parties to maximize returns on their assets; these authors say this is a non-causal correlation

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Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs. Rafael Ahlskog & Anton Brännlund . Political Behavior, Ja...