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- Innovations: Technology, Governance and Globalization http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/itgg 2 comments
- Computational Linguistics became an open access journal http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli 5 comments
- Juvenile incarceration increases propensity of being convicted for a drug offense in adulthood while it lowers propensity to be convicted of a property crime. Juvenile incarceration has also a detrimental effect on high school completion for earlier cohorts, but it has no impact on later cohorts. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00872 7 comments science
- Electronic monitoring is more effective than prison at reducing recidivism. Compared with prison, electronic monitoring reduces the cumulative number of offenses by 45% 10 years after sentencing. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00954 23 comments science
- Election proximity has a pro-gun effect on Democratic senators and a pro-environment effect on Republican senators. These effects arise for senators who are not retiring and who do not hold safe seats. Election proximity does not, however, affect votes on reproductive rights. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00897 7 comments science
- Better prisons reduce recidivism. Prisoners that were randomly assigned to newer, less crowded, and higher service prisons had a 36% lower probability of returning to prison within one year. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_01007 345 comments science
- Using data on drug launch prices between 1999 to 2010, researchers find that reimbursement based on past prices caused launch prices to rise dramatically. Evidence is consistent with 2018 claim from Medicare's administrator that it “creates a perverse incentive for manufacturers to set higher prices https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/rest_a_00849 7 comments science
- In 1978, California adopted building codes intended to save energy. Buildings built after the passage of this energy code use 8% to 13% less electricity for cooling than similar buildings. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00967 44 comments science
- (i) Public disclosure of tax information by top taxpayers leads to increases in tax payments by those affected by it. (ii) A program which recognized and rewarded the top 100 tax-paying corporations and individuals also substantially increased the affected entities' tax payments. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00929 6 comments science
- After the Civil War, the U.S. forced the Cherokee Nation to give its former slaves free land, but didn't force the Confederate states to do so. The land redistribution led to lower racial inequality in the Cherokee Nation, higher incomes, and greater investments in physical and human capital. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00842?journalcode=rest 171 comments science
- Memory of Others' Disclosures Is Consolidated during Rest and Associated with Providing Support. Neural and linguistic evidence indicates that listeners consolidate memories for others' disclosures during rest after listening, which facilitates subsequently providing the speakers with support. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/jocn_a_01573 3 comments science
- Mere exposure to refugees in Germany increased votes for far-right parties by 1.5 percentage points. However, sustained interactions between natives and asylum seekers decreased far-right votes by 4 percentage points. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00922 59 comments science
- Cocaine scarcity created by cocaine seizures in Colombia, Mexico's main cocaine supplier, increases violence in Mexico. The effect is stronger in areas: near the US, with multiple cartels, or strong support for the incumbent party, PAN. This explains 10%-14% of Mexico's increased violence in 2006-09 https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00801 4 comments science
- Study: Most studies of the Iran 1953 coup attribute it partly to to U.S. concerns about the threat of a Communist takeover in Iran. New documents show the US "did not have compelling evidence that the threat of a Communist takeover was increasing substantially in the months before the coup." https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/jcws_a_00898 48 comments geopolitics
- "The Tyranny of the Single Minded: Guns, Environment, and Abortion" - Both a theoretical model and a data test for how election timing impacts politicians' votes on "secondary" issues (where only a minority of voters care intensely about). Tests support the model for all the three topics studied. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00897 4 comments science
- Ethnic diversity has a positive effect on wages, productivity and economic growth. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00901 10 comments science
- International Security study: Leadership decapitation is not an effective counterterrorism strategy, and may even be counterproductive. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec_a_00157 38 comments geopolitics
- Ugly Criminals: Research finds beauty may have an impact on human capital formation, and a labor market penalty provides a direct incentive for unattractive individuals toward criminal activity https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/rest.2009.11757 9 comments science
- Greater immigration leads to less off-shoring by companies https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00861 20 comments science
- IS study on China's use of force in the South China sea: Coercion is not used frequently. China resorts to coercion less as it becomes stronger, choosing instead nonmilitary tools. China is wary of using coercion due to costs re: reputation and economy. Coercion of one target is to deter others. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00354 2 comments geopolitics
- IS study: Charles Glaser argues that the concept of the "liberal international order" is flawed. Defensive realism is better suited to explain cooperation under anarchy, effective Western balancing against the USSR, the Cold War peace, and the lack of balancing against the US after the Cold War. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00343 14 comments geopolitics
- IS study: Mearsheimer argues "the liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was flawed from the start and thus destined to fail." A new multipolar order dictated by realism will ensue. (x-post /r/IRstudies) https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00342 58 comments geopolitics
- In 1924, The Morton Salt Company began nationwide distribution of iodized salt (iodine deficiency is linked to cognitive disabilities). Individuals exposed to iodized salt in utero would go on to have significantly better labor market outcomes than slightly older, unexposed cohorts. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00822 172 comments science
- Merely by migrating to the United States, workers from the median country raise their real earnings by a factor greater than 3.95 (an absolute gain exceeding $13,600 per year). A typical family that’s poor by global standards is poor not because of who they are, but where they are. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00776 66 comments science
- Expecting a German victory in WWII, French right-wing nationalists in Vichy France chose collaboration with the Nazis as a means to suppress and persecute their political opponents, the French Left. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00329 16 comments science
- Medicaid expansions in New York, Arizona, and Maine in the early 2000s caused a 6% decline in the mortality rate for 20- to 64-year old adults. HIV-related mortality declines accounted for 20 percent of the overall mortality effect. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ajhe_a_00080 12 comments science
- There is scant evidence that drone strikes radicalize Muslim populations. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00312 37 comments science
- The potential of a limited nuclear counterforce strike on North Korea using the B61-12 bomb http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ISEC_a_00273 14 comments geopolitics
- "Young people who leave school during recessions are significantly more likely to lead a life of crime than those entering a buoyant labor market." http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00698 40 comments science
- Individuals who are exposed to high-risk juveniles (unstable homes, high levels of aggression) in juvenile incarceration facilities are likelier to commit more crime after release and show crime-oriented attitudes and behaviors http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00685 37 comments science
- IS study: "Although no non-expansion pledge was ever codified, U.S. policymakers presented their Soviet counterparts with implicit and informal assurances in 1990 strongly suggesting that NATO would not expand in post–Cold War Europe if the Soviet Union consented to German reunification." http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00236#.vyxwfhwlsfr 72 comments geopolitics
- "The Unity of Focus: Evidence from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)" (Schlenker et al. 2016) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/ling_a_00215#.vyvpmfmdgko 4 comments linguistics
- The presence of Jews in Italian cities during medieval times has a substantial positive impact on current economic performance. The expulsion of Jews from the Spanish territories in Italy is responsible for a significant portion of the income gap between northern and southern Italy. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00481#.vt3mc5olsfq 11 comments science
- The odds of a black driver being stopped (relative to nonblack drivers) increase 15% in daylight compared to darkness http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00543#.vt2uyjolsfq 8 comments science
- A Model Humanitarian Intervention? Reassessing NATO's Libya Campaign http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec_a_00126 6 comments geopolitics
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec_a_00225 6 comments geopolitics
- Violent movies deter almost 1,000 assaults on an average weekend. Why? Because potential criminals go to the movies instead. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.677 85 comments science
- I'm a freshman student of linguistics. What are some best practices, especially technological, that I should take up right from the beginning? http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli 13 comments linguistics
- Social neuroscientist Jean Decety: social stigma facilitates neurocognitive empathy. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn.2009.21266 3 comments cogsci
- Computational Linguistics (the journal) is now freely available to all http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli 13 comments compsci