Background: Although mega-dams play a significant role in development, providing electricity, irrigation, and flood control, perceptions of their contribution remain mixed, particularly regarding the environmental impacts. Methods: This study jointly determines perceived favorable and adverse...

We develop testable implications for the identifying assumptions of Tobit and IV-Tobit models: linear index, (joint) normality of errors, treatment (instrument) exogeneity, and relevance. The new testable equalities can detect all possible observable violations of the identifying conditions. The...

When evaluating partial effects, it is important to distinguish between structural endogeneity and measurement errors. In contrast to linear models, these two sources of endogeneity affect partial effects differently in nonlinear models. We study this issue focusing on the Instrumental Variable...

Censoring from above is a common problem with wage information as the reported wages are typically top-coded for confidentiality reasons. In administrative databases the information is often collected only up to a pre-specified threshold, for example, the contribution limit for the social...

This study presents an indicator system to assess the green economy efficiency (GEE) of China's provinces and explores its relationship with population aging. Based on panel data covering 30 provincial-level regions from 2000 to 2020, a slacks-based measure-data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA)...

Purpose This study aims to assess the level of development of the digital economy by constructing a comprehensive measurement system. It explores regional differences within China’s digital economy, highlighting the varying degrees of digital infrastructure, industrialization, governance and...

In this paper, we use novel firm-level microdata for Ireland to explore the factors that determine the investment in digitalisation for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). More specifically, we use cross-sectional survey data to explore whether firm fundamentals or constraints act...