• Scholars have debated whether the Holodomor famine in Ukraine (1932–1933) was intentionally targeted towards Ukrainians or inadvertent. New evidence shows that the famine was man-made and that the Stalin regime systematically targeted ethnic Ukrainians across the Soviet Union. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdae091/7754909 244 comments 23/9/2024 science
• Study: The EU Emissions Trading System, the world's first and largest carbon market, successfully reduced firms' carbon dioxide emissions by 14-16% with no detectable contractions in economic activity. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdae055 11 comments 5/6/2024 science
• Exposure to immigrant students leads to improved academic performance by U.S.-born students (especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds). https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdad047/7135701?redirectedFrom=fulltext 12 comments 21/4/2023 science
• Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdad015/7049987?login=false 2 comments 25/2/2023 economics
• For marginal occupations licensed by U.S. states, the welfare costs of licensing exceeds the benefits, as workers have to expend resources to obtain the license and consumers pay higher prices. [The study looks at professions that require license in some states but not others]. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdad015/7049987 88 comments 25/2/2023 science
• Exposure to particulate pollution increases the probability of dementia. The study uses tightened Clean Air Act regulations during the 2000s (which led to quasi-random variations in PM2.5 exposures) for causal inference. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac078 2 comments 28/12/2022 science
• 36% of multinational firm profits are shifted to tax havens. American multinational firms shift twice as much profit as other multinationals relative to the size of their foreign earnings. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdac049/6650134?redirectedFrom=fulltext 19 comments 27/7/2022 science
• Even moderate levels of car pollution have substantial adverse health effects: each additional cheating Wolkswagen "clean diesel" car per 1,000 cars increased particulate pollution by more than 2%, increased the infant mortality rate by 1.7% and low birth weight by 1.9%. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdac007/6529413 2 comments 25/2/2022 science
• Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdab101/6533373?login=false&redirectedFrom=fulltext 39 comments 22/2/2022 economics
• The introduction of free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish schools led to improvements in health, educational attainment, and adult incomes. [Data: the gradual implementation of school lunches in Swedish municipalities between 1959 and 1969]. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/restud/rdab028/6273674 49 comments 20/7/2021 science
• The presence of African-American soldiers in the UK during World War II led to a persistent and intergenerational decline racial prejudice among the British due to positive interactions between the black soldiers and the local population. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/restud/rdaa039/5880000 36 comments 21/9/2020 science
• The potential welfare benefits of Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico are substantially smaller than the proposed cost of constructing the wall (under a range of different scenarios). https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/restud/rdaa029/5880456 16 comments 6/8/2020 science
• Whether children grow up to be wealthy depends far more on the environment they are raised in than on biological factors (the study compared outcomes for adopted children vs biological children) https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdz038/5538993 35 comments 1/8/2019 science
• Immigration is beneficial to economies, even after 100 years. A new study in the Review of Economic Studies finds that U.S. counties with more historical immigration have higher incomes, less poverty, and lower unemployment today. https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/restud/rdz003/5373087?redirectedfrom=fulltext 27 comments 12/3/2019 science

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