Program evaluation methods are widely applied in economics to assess the effects of policy
interventions and other treatments of interest. In this article, we describe the main …

This paper reviews the literature in the intersection of renewable energies and politics
adopting a multidisciplinary social sciences perspective. We begin by analyzing the recent …

The purpose of this study is to explore the causal impact of project management effort on
project profitability (ie, profit on sales) for varying degrees of project complexity in an …

Agricultural subsidies lead to changes in the use of chemical fertilizer by farmers. Using data
from a household survey conducted annually by the Rural Economy Research Center of the …

In light of the existing preliminary evidence of a link between Covid-19 and poor air quality,
which is largely based upon correlations, we estimate the relationship between long term air …

Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has become a key method in
international marketing research. Users of PLS-SEM have, however, largely overlooked the …

China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has
fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant …

This article introduces a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 developing
countries between 2000 and 2014. It investigates whether Chinese development finance …

For scientific discoveries to be valid—whether in theory or empirically—a phenomenon must
be accurately described: The scientist must use appropriate counterfactuals and eliminate …

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to
four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of …