• Differential probability in unmet healthcare needs among migrants in four European countries

  Fares, Hani, 1975-; Pinilla, Jaime (Pinilla Domínguez); Puig i Junoy, Jaume (Springer, 2023)

  Migrants and refugees try to reach Europe to seek protection and a better life. The responsiveness and stewardship of the European countries health system have an impact on the ability to access healthcare. This study aims ...
• Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for planned and cancer surgery: evidence from Spain

  Bosque-Mercader, Laia; Carrilero, Neus; García-Altés, Anna; López i Casasnovas, Guillem; Siciliani, Luigi (Wiley, 2023)

  Waiting times act as a non-price rationing mechanism to bring together the demand for and the supply of public healthcare services and ensure equal access independently of ability to pay. This study tests for the presence ...
• Violations of economic rationality due to irrelevant information during learning in decision from experience

  Spektor, Mikhail; Seidler, Hannah (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  According to normative decision-making theories, the composition of a choice set should not affect people’s preferences regarding the different options. This assumption contrasts with decades of research that have identified ...
• Does boredom affect economic risk preferences?

  Pirla Lopez, Sergio; Navarro Martínez, Daniel (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  Previous literature and conventional wisdom have led researchers to believe that boredom increases economic risk taking, but the evidence in support of this conclusion is limited and has important shortcomings. In four ...
• The endowment effect in the future: how time shapes buying and selling prices

  Yamamoto, Shohei; Navarro Martínez, Daniel (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  Previous research has focused on studying the endowment effect for transactions that take place in the present. Many real-world transactions, however, are delayed into the future (i.e., people agree to buy or sell, but the ...
• Exploring European regional trade

  Santamaría, Marta (Santamaría Monturiol); Ventura, Jaume; Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Elsevier, 2023)

  We use the new dataset of trade flows across 269 European regions in 24 countries constructed in Santamaría et al. (2020) to systematically explore for the first time trade patterns within and across country borders. We ...
• La ceguera al género en los estudios de Economía y Empresa

  Oliveras, Ester; Muñoz Puig, Marina; Crespo, Patrícia (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021)

  Existe abundante legislación de carácter internacional y nacional que requiere incluir la perspectiva de género en la educación superior. Esta legislación viene motivada por la demanda social de evitar perpetuar la desigualdad ...
• The Maltese single transferable vote experience: a case study of gerrymandering?

  Hasancebi, Serhat (Springer, 2023)

  Re-drawing the electoral boundaries to provide benefit to one particular political party and thereby damaging the principle of representation in democracy has been a core issue in political science in the recent years. For ...
• Scheduling a pick and place packaging line

  Schettini, Tommaso; Malucelli, Federico; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena (Springer, 2023)

  In this paper, we introduce the Pick and Place Packaging Problem (P4), for optimally scheduling a packaging system with one input conveyor (pick) and one output conveyor (place). We give a formal definition of the underlying ...
• Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain

  González Chapela, Jorge; Jimenez-Martin, Sergi; Vall-Castelló, Judit (Springer, 2023)

  We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration ...
• Women’s education, fertility and children’ health during a gender equalization process: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain

  Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida; Cabrales, Antonio; Jimenez-Martin, Sergi; Vall-Castelló, Judit (Elsevier, 2023)

  We study the effect of women’s education on fertility and children’s health during a period of gender equalization and women’s greater access to economic opportunities. In 1980, Spain raised the minimum working age from ...
• Continuing patent applications at the USPTO

  Righi, Cesare; Cannito, Davide; Vladasel, Theodor (Elsevier, 2023)

  Despite their growing importance for firm innovation strategy and frequent appearance in U.S. patent policy debates, how continuing patent applications are used remains unclear. Turn-of-the-century reforms strongly limited ...
• How politicians learn from citizens' feedback: the case of gender on Twitter

  Schöll, Nikolas; Gallego Dobón, Aina; Le Mens, Gaël (Wiley, 2023)

  This article studies how politicians react to feedback from citizens on social media. We use a reinforcement-learning framework to model how politicians respond to citizens’ positive feedback by increasing attention to ...
• Disclosure rules and declared essential patents

  Bekkers, Rudi; Catalini, Christian; Martinelli, Arianna; Righi, Cesare; Simcoe, Timothy (Elsevier, 2023)

  Many standard setting organizations (SSOs) require participants to disclose patents that might be infringed by implementing a proposed standard, and commit to license their “essential” patents on terms that are fair, ...
• Toward a synthesis of the board‐strategy relationship: a literature review and future research agenda

  Bezemer, Pieter-Jan; Pugliese, Amedeo; Nicholson, Gavin; Zattoni, Alessandro (Wiley, 2023)

  The strategy role of the board of directors is a contentious topic in both theory and practice and the debate on what boards should or should not do around firm strategy has intensified with changes in global corporate ...
• A behavioral model of adaptation

  Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A.; Cuhadaroglu, Tugce (Elsevier, 2023)

  Adaptation refers to the process of changing behavior in response to a variation in the environment. We propose a model of an adaptive individual that contemplates two forces: on the one hand the individual benefits from ...
• Light modulates the lipidome of the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia timida

  Rey, Felisa; Cartaxana, Paulo; Aveiro, Susana; Greenacre, Michael; Melo, Tânia; Domingues, Pedro; Domingues, M. Rosário; Cruz, Sónia (Elsevier, 2023)

  Long-term kleptoplasty, the capability to retain functional stolen chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) for several weeks to months, has been shown in a handful of Sacoglossa sea slugs. One of these sea slugs is Elysia timida, ...
• The relevance of specification assumptions when analyzing the drivers of physical activity practice

  García, Jaume; Suárez, María José (Elsevier, 2023)

  There is some heterogeneity in the economics literature about the determinants of physical activity practice and little evidence on the robustness of the results to the specification assumptions. Our contribution to the ...
• Using machine learning to uncover the semantics of concepts: how well do typicality measures extracted from a BERT text classifier match human judgments of genre typicality?

  Le Mens, Gaël; Kovács, Balázs; Hannan, Michael T.; Pros Rius, Guillem (Society for Sociological Science, 2023)

  Social scientists have long been interested in understanding the extent to which the typicalities of an object in concepts relate to its valuations by social actors. Answering this question has proven to be challenging ...
• Financial crises and political radicalization: how failing banks paved Hitler's path to power

  Doerr, Sebastian; Gissler, Stefan; Peydró, José-Luis; Voth, Hans-Joachim (Wiley, 2022)

  Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany's 1931 banking crisis, collecting new data on bank branches and firm-bank connections. Exploiting cross-sectional variation in precrisis exposure to the bank at the ...

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