Objectives To assess the effects of lean healthcare (LH) on patient flow in ambulatory care
and determine whether waiting time and length of stay (LOS) decrease after LH …

Fixed effects (FE) have emerged as a ubiquitous and powerful tool for eliminating unwanted
variation in observational accounting studies. Unwanted variation is plentiful in accounting …

Environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) scores have been widely touted as indicators
of share price resilience during the COVID‐19 crisis. Contrary to this conventional wisdom …

Public support is fundamental in scaling up actions to limit global warming. Here, we
analyse how the experience of climate extremes influences people's environmental attitudes …

Precipitation extremes have increased across many regions of the United States, with further
increases anticipated in response to additional global warming. Quantifying the impact of …

Most Americans think that the country is politically divided and polarization will only get
worse, not better. Such perceptions of polarization are widespread, but we do not know …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European
countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district …

Nongovernmental organizations are central to contemporary global governance, and their
numbers and influence have grown dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century …

Scholars have not determined whether exposure to a changing climate influences public
understanding of or concern about climate change. We examine this question using a …

Scholars of the resource curse argue that reliance on primary commodities destabilizes
governments: price fluctuations generate windfalls or periods of austerity that provoke or …