学术论文

This paper uses remotely sensed and farm-level data to assess the micro-level impacts of the war in Ukraine. Remotely sensed, high-resolution data on areas of war-induced agricultural field damage in different periods are combined with crop cover ...

Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in lowand middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice of diary- versus recall-based methods for con...

We analyse cycles in policy interest rates in 24 advanced economies over 1970- 2024, combining a new application of business cycle methodology with rich timeseries decompositions of the shocks driving rate movements. “Rate cycles” have gradually e...

Individuals’ socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market outcomes and other welfare outcomes. Men appear to have higher levels of SES than women, but this gender gap is typically documented in...

Protected areas can conserve wildlife and benefit people when managed effectively. African governments increasingly delegate the management of protected areas to private, non-governmental organizations, hoping that private organizations’ significa...

This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality, utilizing the World Bank’s investment project performance data from 120 countries over 2000– 21. After detailing the construction of the index, the paper examines how public...

While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This lack of an accepted measure makes it harder to monitor progress toward sustainable development goals, honor political commitmen...

Are changes in the labor market in response to changes in exports contained specifically within exporting industries, or do they disperse throughout the economy through supply chain linkages? This paper studies the case of Viet Nam, an example of ...

It is estimated that by 2030 nearly 60 percent of the world's extreme poor will live in fragile, conflict or violence (FCV) affected countries. 3 There are 39 countries currently classified as fragile, whether due to institutional and social f...

Leveraging unconventional data, including website traffic data and Google Trends, this paper unveils the real-time usage patterns of generative artificial intelligence tools by individuals across countries. The paper also examines coun try-leve...

Community-engaged research engages the community in a collaborative manner to improve the local setting and has been increasingly applied to health services research. These complex studies require collaboration and team building among clinical exp...

Introduction Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a common, life-threatening event encountered routinely by first responders, including police, fire and emergency medical services (EMS). Current literature suggests that there is significant re...

Laws and regulations represent a central tool for governments to achieve policy objectives, and they also represent a fundamental condition for making desirable individual and business decisions. While laws and regulations regularly have to be ada...

Internal migration and structural transformation are strongly interrelated. This paper uses Indian data spanning 2001–13 to examine a little-known aspect of this relationship: how migration affects agricultural land rental contracts. Building on a...

① Recent trends indicate worker s increasingly value work ing conditions ( job amenit ies as highly as wages. This s hift suggests that a considerable number of workers in the labor market are willing to forgo a portion of their wage s for better ...

The relationship between housing prices (HP) and household non-housing consumption (CON) is a key topic worldwide. By developing a panel threshold model and utilizing data from 18 provinces in central and western China from 2005 to 2020, this stud...