Governments allocate financial resources to support small-and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) through public subsidies and grants. However, do these public investments help …

Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to
alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide …

With myriads of policy options being considered to alleviate energy poverty, the financial
inclusion-energy poverty nexus has received little attention despite its potential. Using two …

As our behavioral patterns change due to the COVID-19 crisis, our impact on nature and the
environment changes too. Pollution levels are showing significant reductions. People are …

Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social
sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes researchers, put …

Purpose This paper aims to present the Difference-in-Differences (DiD) method in an
accessible language to a broad research audience from a variety of management-related …

In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education
significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy …

As the world's population is becoming progressively urban-dwelling, sustainable
development challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities, placing tremendous …

Training programmes are evaluated to verify their effectiveness, assess their ability to
achieve their goals and identify the areas that require improvement. Therefore, the target of …

This article asks how sustainable investing contributes to societal goals, conducting a
literature review on investor impact—that is, the change investors trigger in companies' …