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Beyond Continuous versus Categorical Dichotomy: Uncovering Latent Structure of Non-electoral Political Participation Using Zero-Inflated Models
While modeling political participation as a latent variable, researchers usually choose whether to conceptualize and model participation as a latent...
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A quasi-negative binomial regression with an application to medical care data
This paper introduced a Quasi-Negative Binomial Regression as an extension of Quasi-Negative Binomial to handle response count datasets modulated...
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Subjective Wellbeing Inequality Between Cohabiting Partners: Does a Household Kuznets Curve Exist?
This study unpacks the question of subjective wellbeing (SWB) inequality between partners in South Africa in the context of declining overall SWB...
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Multidimensional material deprivation in Poland: a focus on changes in 2015–2017
The study applies the fuzzy approach to measuring material deprivation from a multidimensional perspective. By taking into account the intensity of...
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Building a New Model to Explain the Fertility Paradox
This book uses mixed-methods in order to develop a new model to explain the fertility paradox. A qualitative and theoretically informed comparative...
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The development of delinquency during adolescence: a comparison of missing data techniques revisited
Conclusions about the individual development of delinquent behaviours during the life-course are often made by repeatedly interviewing the same...
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Assessing the Risk of Car Crashes in Road Networks
Worldwide, thousands of people die annually in highway-related crashes and millions are injured. Hence, car wrecks have very high direct social costs...
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Is Democracy Associated with Reduction of Poverty, Child Mortality and Child Deprivation in Low-income Countries?
Is democracy related to lower poverty rates and better living conditions for children in develo** countries? Multiple sources have confirmed that...
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The Spatio-temporal Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Assess Neighborhood Influences
Bayesian spatio-temporal models are an emerging research approach to the study of the ecological variations of child maltreatment at the neighborhood...
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Clustering of Wellbeing, Engagement and Academic Outcomes in Australian Primary Schools
The mental health and wellbeing of young people has important consequences for students and society. Schools are a logical environment for management...
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Determinants of household food insecurity and co** strategies in Northern Ghana
Household food insecurity is gradually being acknowledged as a public health issue in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about the actions...
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Estimation of Health-State Utility Values and Factors Driving Health-Related Quality of Life in People Living with HIV and AIDS and Receiving cART in Germany: Baseline Analysis of a Cohort Study
HIV has become a chronic disease since widespread of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). Understanding the influence of therapeutic and...
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An Empirical Assessment of the Drivers of Formal and Informal Childcare Demand in European Countries
How does the mother’s labour supply affect the household’s demand for childcare? And thus are formal and informal childcare substitutable? In this...
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A Multilevel Spatial Model to Investigate Voting Behaviour in the 2019 UK General Election
This paper presents a modelling framework which can detect the simultaneous presence of two different types of spatial process. The first is the...
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Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Labor Market Exits of Older Workers?
In this study, I examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on the labor supply decisions of non-disabled, low-educated,...
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Gender Differences in Consumer Debt Stress: Impacts on Job Performance, Family Life and Health
During periods of economic instability, women may suffer uniquely from economic stress compared to men. We examine stress effects from financial...
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Does context matter? Exploring the effects of productive structures on the relationship between innovation and workforce skills’ complementarity
Innovation is often seen as a crucial factor for regional economic growth. Many strands of literature have investigated the role of agglomeration...
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What Makes People Happy? Evidence from International Data
Individuals’ life satisfaction varies widely across countries. Differences in income explain a large part of this variation, but not all. The purpose...
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A machine learning approach to detect collusion in public procurement with limited information
Public procurement spending reaches $9.5 trillion annually, yet bid-rigging remains a significant, undetected issue. Existing methods require...
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Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study
Since the 1990s, Sweden has implemented aging-in-place policies increasing the share of older adults dependent on home care instead of residing in...
