Immigrants typically have better health than natives upon arrival owing to health selection, but this advantage declines over time. This “Immigrant Health Paradox” (IHP) is generalized to all immigrant groups, without recognizing key differences between them. Research on the health of asylum...

In laboratory faking research, participants are often instructed to respond honestly (generic instructions [GIs], control condition) or to fake (personnel‐selection scenario [PSS], faking condition). Considering the research on instruction‐level contextualization, a PSS might not only...

Real-life transport operations are often subject to uncertainties in travel time or customers’ demands. Additionally, these uncertainties greatly impact the economic, environmental, and social costs of vehicle routing plans. Thus, analysing the sustainability costs of transportation activities...

We study the behavioral effects of a large-scale, repeated, and personalized reminder. Our empirical setting is Sweden's annual pension statement, which is rolled out region by region to all working-age individuals. Combining this variation with unique individual-level user data from the...

Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller's (2015) analysis of the costs of German reunification is a flagship study for the "synthetic control method" (SCM). Yet three issues can be identified. First, Abadie et al. remove countries that performed poorly in the 1990s from their donor pool, potentially...

Flamino et al. (2023) estimate the levels of ideological polarization and echo chamber behavior for Twitter (now X) users during the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections using political bias classification and network analysis methods. Using 873 million tweets, they find a decline in the...

We re-analyze Szakonyi (2025), one of the most innovative corruption studies in recent years. Using data from Russia, Szakonyi (2025) estimates the effect of a political regime having compromising information (kompromat) over its politicians on legislative behavior, lobbying, and re-election. We...

In the present study, we present a systematic mapping of databases/data records related to the trans population and/or variables that engage with the issue of gender identity, within the scope of the federal government. Furthermore, we briefly discuss some of the aspects that these sources...

This study investigates the adoption and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector, focusing on the Ministry of Industry and Technology (MoIT) in Türkiye. Through literature review and field research, including interviews with public officials, the study...

Today, with the rapid progress of digitalization, cloud computing technology is widely used by both the public and private sectors due to the advantages it offers and the potential it has. In addition to governments, it is of critical importance for local governments that provide direct services...