It is increasingly important to accurately and comprehensively estimate the effects of
particular clinical treatments. Although randomization is the current gold standard …

Objectives: To investigate the differences in vaccine hesitancy and preference of the
currently available COVID-19 vaccines between two countries, namely, China and the …

Crowd work reflects a new form of gainful employment on the Internet. We study how the
nature of the tasks being performed and financial compensation jointly shape work …

Observational studies are often the only viable options in many clinical settings, especially
when it is unethical or infeasible to randomly assign participants to different treatment …

This paper quantifies the substitution and complementary effects of high-speed rail (HSR) on
air travel demand in terms of both route traffic and airport enplanement. Employing the …

Propensity score weighting is one of the techniques used in controlling for selection biases
in non-experimental studies. Propensity scores can be used as weights to account for …

The objective was to delineate the prevalence of criminal behavior and school discipline in
juvenile justice-involved youth (JJY) with autism. A sample of 143 JJY with autism was …

Purpose Motivated by the enactment of non-financial reporting regulations by the European
Parliament, this paper aims to investigate the impact of European Union (EU) directive …

Gastric bypass surgery constitutes the most common and effective bariatric surgery to treat
obesity. Gastric bypass leads to bone loss, but fracture risk following surgery has been …

Propensity score matching techniques are becoming increasingly common as they afford
applied practitioners the ability to account for systematic bias related to self-selection …