The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of
proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in …

Landscape impacts associated with aesthetics have been a persistent cause of opposition
against renewable energy projects. However, the current uncertainty over the spatial extents …

In times of crisis, humans have a tendency to turn to religion for comfort and explanation.
The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Using daily and weekly data on Google searches …

INTRODUCTION Centuries of land dispossession and forced migration of Indigenous
peoples by European and American settlers reshaped the entire North American continent …

Mitigating climate change necessitates global cooperation, yet global data on individuals'
willingness to act remain scarce. In this study, we conducted a representative survey across …

Strongyloidiasis is a common neglected tropical disease in tropical and sub-tropical climatic
zones. At the worldwide level, there is high uncertainty about the strongyloidiasis burden …

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers'
knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor …

This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we
present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of …

The past decade or so has seen a dramatic change in the way that economists can learn by
watching our planet from above. A revolution has taken place in remote sensing and allied …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …