While physical and natural scientists have long produced quantitative tools to understand
biogeochemical processes, questions remain on how to identify, isolate and deliver …

This chapter surveys new development in causal inference using time-series cross-sectional
(TSCS) data. I start by clarifying two identification regimes for TSCS analysis: one under the …

Because they are chiefly domestic conflicts, civil wars have been studied primarily from a
perspective stressing domestic factors. We ask, instead, whether (and how) the international …

Abstract Knowledge of the carbon emissions elasticities of income and population is
important both for climate change policy/negotiations and for generating projections of …

We focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure—
carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption—as well …

Web 2.0 and online social networking websites heavily affect today most of the online
activities and their effect on tourism is obviously rather important. This paper aims at …

En este texto se analiza el comportamiento de la informalidad laboral para un grupo de
países latinoamericanos, de acuerdo a un enfoque teórico mixto en el que se tienen en …

Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the
start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited …

This paper considers a recently developed consumption-based carbon emissions database
from which emissions calculations are made based on the domestic use of fossil fuels plus …

As democratization has advanced in the developing world, developed countries such as the
United States have implemented explicit strategies of democracy promotion by providing …