Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Leveraging over 40 million residential electricity billing records from more than one million meters in Ethiopia, we test whether consumers respond to marginal prices at kink points under an increasing block tariff (IBT). We exploit a unique institutional setting in which two distinct billing systems (manual postpaid and automated prepaid ...
Tensay Hadush Meles, Gunnar Köhlin
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A smoothing and bootstrap-based framework for early outbreak detection. [PDF]
PLoS OneWang L, Xia Y, Goh EH, Chen M.
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Conflict, Climate, and Child Health: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Many parts of the world are experiencing social and political instability, as well as ongoing climatic changes that are expected to accelerate in the years ahead. These changes can undermine children's health through multiple pathways, and the growing frequency of sociopolitical and environmental stressors increases the likelihood that ...
Brian C. Thiede +3 more
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Trends and urban-rural disparities in infant and cause-specific mortality in Shaanxi Province, China, 2014-2023: a population-based study. [PDF]
Front Public HealthYang X, Wang B, Zhang J.
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Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether e‐procurement adoption is associated with procedural competition and transparency, two core components of procurement integrity. Using award‐level microdata for Italian regional contracting authorities (2019–2023), we analyze a period preceding the legal obligation of full‐cycle digital procurement, when the use of ...
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta +2 more
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Congenital Gastrointestinal Malformations in a Romanian Tertiary Centre (2020-2024): A Retrospective Cohort Study of Diagnosis, Distribution, and Outcomes. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Stratulat-Chiriac I +10 more
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Climate Shocks and Unemployment Claims
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a US state–level climate risk measure and the panel local projections framework, this study analyzes both linear and asymmetric effects of climate shocks on unemployment claims. The results provide strong evidence that climate shocks significantly increase both initial and continuing claims, with the linear estimates showing a stronger ...
Abeeb Olaniran +3 more
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Unusual solar radiation and its impact on the Japanese rice market during the 1830s famine. [PDF]
Sci RepIchino M +3 more
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New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.Seagrass flowering underpins seed‐based restoration and is governed by the interaction of multiple abiotic and biotic drivers operating across a range of temporal and spatial scales. In New Zealand/Aotearoa, flowering was historically considered rare, but emerging evidence indicates it is more widespread than previously recognised, creating new ...
Dana E. Clark +13 more
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Uropathogens and prognosis among patients with hospital-diagnosed acute pyelonephritis: insights from a 19-year population-based cohort study. [PDF]
InfectionSvingel LS +5 more
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