A quarter of the population in high-income countries lives in rural areas. However, existing empirical evidence on these areas in OECD countries is scarce. Over the past several decades, many rural areas have been declining. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether these struggling rural areas are...

Purpose This research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on tourism industry revenues in Spain. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the Bureau van Dijk's...

This study empirically examines the effects of exposure to paternal smoking on child growth, utilizing comprehensive data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey. We use doubly robust estimations to compare the health outcomes of children whose fathers began smoking before pregnancy with children...