Published in Scientometrics
To encourage research transparency and replication, more and more journals have been requiring authors to share original datasets and analytic procedures supporting their publications. Does open data boost journal impact? In this article, we report one of the first empirical studies to assess the effects of open data on journal impact. China Indust...
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This study contributes to the existing literature on the impact of conference presentations on career progression by quantifying the predictive power of conferences for publication success. Examining outcomes for more than 4000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006–2012 period, we find a positive...
RationaleLittle is known about the specific experience people living with bipolar disorder in rural, low resource settings, where conditions that disrupt normal social interactions are often highly stigmatized and evidence-based treatments are rare.ObjectiveTo explore illness experience, coping strategies, help-seeking practices, and consequences o...
Published in Journal of epidemiology and community health
© 2020 Across multiple organized wholesale power markets in the United States, annual average prices declined by $19–64/MWh between 2008 and 2017 while retirements of thermal power plants accelerated. Several prominent changes over the last decade are often discussed as contributors to this decline in prices. These include growth in wind and solar,...
Geographical indications (GI) certify the geographical origins of a product and delineate the specific area in which the certified product must be produced. Despite a large literature on the economics of GIs, few papers have explored the question of the optimal size of GI regions. This note presents a flexible conceptual framework to explore the ec...
Agricultural specialization is linked with negative environmental impact. The SYNERGY bio-economic model studies promising levers to limit these impacts: expand of legumes production and exchanges of crops and manure between farms. SYNERGY is a regional model that includes specialized farm types and models exchanges of crops (including legumes) and...
Published in Nature
Nearly one year ago, the World Health Organization sounded the alarm about the coronavirus, but was ignored.
Published in Nature
The influential economist behind Europe’s research-funding plan lays out her reasoning.
Published in Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
Those economists who have emphasized true uncertainty have tended to draw an epistemic distinction between an ascertainable past and an unknowable future. But in one critical respect—in extracting causal relationships—that epistemic distinction is not warranted. Whether they are situated in the past or future, causal arguments in economics depend e...
