While numerous studies assess the relationship between education and health, no
consensus has been reached on whether education really improves health. We perform a …

The theoretical literature gives conflicting predictions on how bank competition should affect
financial stability, and dozens of researchers have attempted to evaluate the relationship …

Expatriate workers' remittances represent an important source of financing for low-and
middle-income countries. No consensus, however, has yet emerged regarding the effect of …

The method of model averaging has become an important tool to deal with model
uncertainty, for example in situations where a large amount of different theories exist, as are …

Research on the relationship between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and
financial performance (CFP) continuously receives high attention in both general media and …

Average incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as
overall average incomes. This is because, in a global dataset spanning 121 countries over …

We collect 2735 estimates of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption from
169 published studies that cover 104 countries during different time periods. The estimates …

This article describes the BMS (Bayesian model sampling) package for R that implements
Bayesian model averaging for linear regression models. The package excels in allowing for …

The voluminous empirical research on horizontal productivity spillovers from foreign
investors to domestic firms has yielded mixed results. In this paper we collect 1,205 …

We examine 597 estimates of habit formation reported in 81 published studies. The mean
reported strength of habit formation equals 0.4, but the estimates vary widely both within and …