Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2025

Current editor(s): Barnett R. Parker

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Volume 97, issue C, 2025

Performance evaluation of child welfare departments using Data Envelopment Analysis: A comparative study across US states

Sepideh Sedghi, Shima Azizi, Katherine Canada, Vincent Charles and Andrew C. Trapp

Social insurance contributions and labor income share—Evidence from China's Social Insurance Law

Yadong Cui, Jun Liang and Wei Wang

Modelling global fossil CO2 emissions with a lognormal distribution

F. Prieto, C.B. García-García and R. Salmerón-Gómez

Modeling and managing resilience and risk for interdependent networks

Felipe Aros-Vera and Shital Thekdi

University student's opinion survey: A synthesis and a deeper insight

Silvia Terzi and Francesca Petrarca

Volume 96, issue C, 2024

Revisiting the small-world property of co-enrollment networks: A network analysis of hybrid course delivery strategies

Di Wu, Hanna Hamilton, Liam Jagrowski, Dima Nazzal and Lauren N. Steimle

The development planning of the Italian Mezzogiorno: A statistical-mathematical analysis by a Real Business Cycle model

Rosa Ferrentino and Luca Vota

An ellipse-based locating method for flexible deployment of emergency UAVs

Jinqiu Zhao, Le Yu and Binglei Xie

Efficiency analysis of the innovation-driven sustainable logistics industry

Mustapha D. Ibrahim, Miguel Alves Pereira and Paulo Caldas

Circular economy convergence across European Union: Evidence on the role policy diffusion and domestic mechanisms

Roberta Arbolino, Raffaele Boffardi, L. De Simone, G. Ioppolo and Alexandra Lopes

From resources to capital: Investigating the efficiency of forest ecosystem products value realization in China

Jia Lou, Guo-liang Yang, Lijian Song and Kai-di Liu

Scenario analysis of livestock-related PM2.5 pollution based on a new heteroskedastic spatiotemporal model

Jacopo Rodeschini, Alessandro Fassò, Francesco Finazzi and Alessandro Fusta Moro

Measuring sustainable performance of OECD countries considering CO2 emissions: A new optimistic-pessimistic distance friction Minimization Model

Habib Zare Ahmadabadi, Fatemeh Zamzam, Ali Emrouznejad, Alireza Naser Sadrabadi and Ali Morovati Sharifabadi

The efficiency of residency training and health outcomes in China: Based on two-stage DEA and cluster analysis

Guangwei Deng, Yongbin Pan, Chenpeng Feng and Liang Liang

Spatial correlation network and influencing factors analysis of supply efficiency of basic public service (SEBPS) in rust belt regions of China: An empirical study from Northeast China

Youmeng Ji, Xiangli Wu and Limin Wang

Designing a new robust solid waste recycling network under uncertainty: A case study about circular economy transition

Yilin Wang, Yankui Liu and Huili Pei

Defensive resource allocation in terrorism conflict management based on graph model with relative preferences

Yi Liu, Xia Chen, Jun Zhuang and Yucheng Dong

Logistics planning for direct temporary disaster housing assistance under demand uncertainty

Sheng-Yin Chen, Yongjia Song, Dustin Albright and Weichiang Pang

Equity and sustainability in the health care market: Socio-economic analysis of governance and reforms

Lucia Leporatti and Ching-to Ma

Spatial analysis of technical efficiency in the provision of local public goods: The case of Chilean mining municipalities

Cristóbal Vásquez-Quezada and Mauricio Oyarzo

A PLS-Hierarchical Path Modeling approach to analyze and address gender equality in the EU countries

Rosanna Cataldo, Clelia Cascella, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Carlo Natale Lauro and Viktoriya Voytsekhovska

Integrated sustainability perspective and spillover effects of social, environment and economic pillars: A case study using SEY model

Hao Huang and Faeze Akbari

Measuring business impacts on the sustainability of European-listed firms

D’Ecclesia, Rita Laura, Susanna Levantesi and Kevyn Stefanelli

A reassessment of graduation modeling for policy design

Matteo Corsi, Enrico di Bella and Luca Persico

Assessing airline efficiency with a network DEA model: A Z-number approach with shared resources, undesirable outputs, and negative data

Zijiang Yang, Hashem Omrani and Raha Imanirad

Technical efficiency and managerial ability in two-stage production processes with undesirable products: A case on Asian banks

Alireza Amirteimoori and Gang Kou

Machine learning embedded hybrid MCDM model to mitigate decision uncertainty in transport safety planning for OAS countries

Weijie Zhou, Hanrui Feng, Zeyu Guo, Huating Jia, Yue Li, Xinyue Luo, Siwei Ran, Hanming Zhang, Ziyu Zhou, Jiakai Yuan, Jiaxin Liu, Shijie Sun and Faan Chen

Integrating SEM, Wald test and ANOM to disentangle the effect of TMT functional background on strategic plans

Fabrizia Sarto, Sara Saggese, Emmadonata Carbone and Pasquale Sarnacchiaro

The economic impact of terrorism in South Asia

Chang Meng and Noorulhaq Ghafoori

Impact of political relationships on virtual land flow from China's food trade

Guohua Ni, Man Teng, Bin Su and Zhenling Chen

Towards spatially disaggregated cocaine supply chain modeling

Nicholas R. Magliocca, Ridvan Aksu, Kendra McSweeney, Hashir Tanveer, Kevin M. Curtin and Burcu Keskin

Regional development and intellectual capital: Unveiling the innovation-tradition dilemma

Pierluigi Toma and Patricia Laurens

What about QR codes on wine bottles? A statistical analysis of technology's influence on purchase decisions among Italian wine consumers

Nino Adamashvili, Alessia Spada, Mariantonietta Fiore and Caterina Tricase

Simulation of migration paths using agent-based modeling: The case of Syrian refugees en route to Turkey

Özlem Güngör, Dilek Günneç, Sibel Salman and Eda Yücel

Adaptable solutions for retail supply chain resilience in the post-COVID-19 era

Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji and Chukwuebuka Martinjoe U-Dominic

The impact of a low-carbon transport system policy on total factor carbon emission performance: Evidence from 283 cities in China

Li-juan Si, Hao-yu Cao and Jian Wang

Enhancing enterprise investment efficiency through artificial intelligence: The role of accounting information transparency

Xin Zhao, Guoqing Zhai, Vincent Charles, Tatiana Gherman, Hyoungsuk Lee, Tuan Pan and Yuping Shang

Multi-period emergency facility location-routing problems under uncertainty and risk aversion

Qing-Mi Hu, Yan Hu and Xiaoping Li

Optimizing public sector resources: A centralized DEA model for effective allocation of shared inputs

Sheng-Wei Lin and Wen-Min Lu

An optimization framework to provide volunteers with task selection autonomy and group opportunities

Milan Preet Kaur, Jennifer A. Pazour and Rosemonde Ausseil

Exploring the role of governance in determining public-private investment in energy: New empirical insights from ASEAN

Dong Peng, Umar Farooq, Mohammad Mahtab Alam and Khurshid Khudoykulov

Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages in the Italian labour market

Elena Fabrizi, Isabella Sulis, Annalisa Busetta and Giancarlo Ragozini

Are outstanding researchers also top teachers? Exploring the link between research quality and teaching quality

Paolo Coccorese, Dell’Anno, Roberto and Marialuisa Restaino

Evaluating the effects of digital finance on urban poverty

Zhimin Duan, Fangjie Yuan and Zhengjie Tian

A Kansei engineering-based decision-making method for offline medical service quality evaluation with multidimensional attributes

Yujia Liu, Xinru Ren, Feixia Ji, Changyong Liang and Jian Wu

Investigating water sustainability towards indicators: An empirical illustration using country-level data

Riccardo Ievoli, Rosa Vinciguerra and Adriana Bruno

Measurement and comparison of different dimensions of renewable energy policy implementation in the agricultural sector

Somayeh Dehhaghi, Shahla Choobchian and Hossein Azadi

Low-carbon route optimization model for multimodal freight transport considering value and time attributes

Xinghui Chen, Xinghua Hu and Haobing Liu

A hybrid MCDM framework for assessing urban competitiveness: A case study of European cities

Özcan Işık, Mohsin Shabir and Sarbast Moslem

I like participatory museums but, how much? Embedding demand-side value in assessing strategies

Jonathan Daniel Gómez-Zapata, María José Del Barrio-Tellado, Fátima Espinosa-Casero and Luis César Herrero-Prieto

Variable RTS in hierarchical network DEA: Enhancing efficiency in higher education systems

Siwei Xiao, Marios Kremantzis, Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Aniekan Essien and George Vlontzos