Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised
controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for …

The pelagic fisheries beyond the continental shelves are currently managed with a range of
tools largely based on regulating effort or target catch. These tools comprise both static and …

It is becoming increasingly popular in applications of standard synthetic control methods to
include the entire pretreatment path of the outcome variable as economic predictors. We …

Financial constraints hamper the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to
undertake innovative activities, which, in turn, affects countries' long-term growth. Therefore …

This study examines the impact of China's green credit policy on the environment. In
particular, we consider an initiative that requires all banks to base their loan decisions on …

Objective To define confounding bias in difference‐in‐difference studies and compare
regression‐and matching‐based estimators designed to correct bias due to observed …

Difference-in-differences (DID) analysis is used widely to estimate the causal effects of
health policies and interventions. A critical assumption in DID is “parallel trends”: that pre …

Relying on theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links
occupational characteristics to health, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the …

It is becoming increasingly popular in applications of synthetic control methods to include
the entire pre-treatment path of the outcome variable as economic predictors. We …

There is a longstanding debate on whether the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) or the
change score approach is more appropriate when analyzing non-experimental longitudinal …