Individuals who reside in a country without regular authorisation generally find it difficult to access public medical services beyond emergency treatment. Even in countries with universal healthcare, there is often a gap between rights on paper and their implementation. Civil society organisations (CSOs) fill this gap by providing medical services to vulnerable populations, including irregular migrants. What, if…
May 2024
February 2024
Abstract. Inter-regional patient mobility represents both a resource and a challenge for the organization and financing of health systems, particularly in decentralised countries. We use cross-sectional time series regression analysis to test the determinants of imbalances in regional funds to finance inter-regional patient mobility for the 17 Spanish regions for the period 2014–2020. The…
April 2023
![Leibbrandt, A., López-Pérez, R., & Spiegelman, E. (2023). Reciprocal, but inequality averse as well? Mixed motives for punishment and reward. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 210: 91-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.028 Leibbrandt, A., López-Pérez, R., & Spiegelman, E. (2023). Reciprocal, but inequality averse as well? Mixed motives for punishment and reward. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 210: 91-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.028](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023_economic_behaviour.png?itok=u6Zryv_V)
Abstract. Considerable experimental evidence indicates that reciprocity and inequality aversion are important motivations to understand deviations from self-interested behavior, and in particular costly punishment and reward. We use a within-subject experimental design to evaluate the share of subjects whose second-party reward and punishment choices are best accounted for by pure reciprocity,…
March 2023
![Cruz-Castro, L., Ginther](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023_public_funding_research.png?itok=oHVquuzM)
Abstract. This review is about the relationship between research funding allocation, gender and under-represented minorities (URM). Research on gender and URM disparities in research funding is relevant as it speaks directly to the unexplained gaps in career advancement by illuminating potential effects of gender, race and ethnicity characteristics on productivity, reputation and compensation,…
February 2023
![Martínez, C., & Parlane Martínez, C., & Parlane](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023_research_policy.png?itok=MtA9J08P)
Abstract. What motivates some firms to hire star academics? This paper provides a theoretical framework that combines several factors known to influence a firm's hiring decision of scientists capable of conducting both, research and development activities. The targeted type, reflecting the scientist's academic ability, is endogenous. When research and development activities are not strong…
September 2022
![Testing Public Reactions to Mass-Protest Hybrid Media Events: A Rolling Cross-Sectional Study of International Women’s Day in Spain Jiménez-Sánchez M, Fraile M](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022_public_opinion_quarterly.jpg?itok=EEz8iYvm)
Abstract. The configuration of protests as hybrid media events not only enables them to reach wider audiences but also favors the transformation of those audiences into active publics. In this increasingly common scenario, our study proposes a set of indicators to scrutinize how the public reacts during such hybrid media events, and to test such reactions in light of the mass protests that took…
August 2022
![Koronka, J](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022_trees_forests_people.png?itok=h8c88kdf)
Abstract. Many governments and organisations are encouraging carbon dioxide capture in woodlands through the creation of markets that commodify forest carbon. These schemes can connect different values in local landscapes and global environmental responses to climate change, which go beyond increasing the cost-effectiveness of carbon offsetting. In this paper we use the UK Woodland Carbon Code (…
June 2022
![Gou, Z., Meng, F.,](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/scientometrics.png?itok=qDgX43qQ)
Abstract. In this study, we introduce a new literature-aging conceptual model to study the citation curve and discuss its implications. First, we improve the conceptual model by adding a period to describe the “death” of citations. Second, we offer a feasible operationalization for this conceptual model and implement a set of cross-discipline publications in the Web of Science to test its…
![Baggio-Compagnucci, A., Ovando](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022_environmental_sciencepolicy.png?itok=4Ry6cGRM)
Abstract. Forest expansion can make an important contribution to the 2015 Paris Agreement, through offsetting Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EU, UK and Scottish forest policy encourages substantial forest expansion. Unfortunately, policy is still inadequately informed by high resolution data, and often assumes a fairly homogenous landscape, uniformly suitable soil types and idealised ‘average’…
![Caballero, A., & López-Pérez, R](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022_economic_behaviour_0.png?itok=fbRXrP_q)
Abstract. Introspection and abundant field and lab evidence indicate that people often infer population characteristics from the data available. When people lack records and are not given feedback, however, they might underweight some of such data, perhaps due to inattention or memory failures. In this paper we use lab experiments and a parsimonious analytical framework to explore inference when…