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The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

Has the number of rapes in Britain really gone up? Noah Carl examines whether there has really been a massive rise in the number of rapes in England and Wales, as claimed by recent viral posts on social media. He concludes that the apparent increase is entirely due to changes in recording and reporting, and that the true prevalence of rape has been largely flat for the last two decades.

Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA. Abdel Abdellaoui and colleagues examine the genotypic and phenotypic correlates of never having had sex in large British and Australian samples. They find that sexlessness is heritable, and that sexless individuals tend to be more educated, less happy and less likely to smoke or drink.

The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income. Eva Vivalt and colleagues report results from an RCT in which 1,000 low-income individuals received either $1,000 per month for three years or only $50 per month. They find that those receiving $1,000 per month saw a fall in income (excluding the transfer) and reduction in employment. These declines were not compensated by investments in human capital.