Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 81, issue C, 2022

Performance and efficiency in Indian universities

Geraint Johnes, Jill Johnes and Swati Virmani

Firm productivity and government contracts: The moderating role of corruption

Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Christian Darko and Yancy Vaillant

Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile

Víctor Giménez, Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Assessment of local competitiveness: A composite indicator analysis of Costa Rican counties using the ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ model

Esteban Lafuente, Manuel Araya and Juan Carlos Leiva

The role of universities on the consolidation of knowledge-based sectors: A spatial econometric analysis of KIBS formation rates in Spanish regions

Krisztina Horváth and Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent

Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis

Giovanna D'Inverno, Wim Moesen and Kristof De Witte

Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015

Jose Manuel Cordero, Cristina Polo and Rosa Simancas

Higher education and economic growth: A longitudinal study of European regions 2000–2017

Tommaso Agasisti and Alice Bertoletti

Long-term efficiency of public service provision in a context of budget restrictions. An application to the education sector

Laura López-Torres and Diego Prior

A centralized directional distance model for efficient and horizontally equitable grants allocation to local governments

Pablo Arocena, Fermín Cabasés and Pedro Pascual

Tricks with the BoD model and an application to the e-Government Development Index

Panagiotis Ravanos and Giannis Karagiannis

How politics influence public good provision

Vítězslav Titl and Kristof De Witte

Non-Cognitive Skills and Cognitive Skills to measure school efficiency

Giorgio Vittadini, Caterina Sturaro and Giuseppe Folloni

A multi-hierarchy meta-frontier approach for measuring green total factor productivity: An application of pig breeding in China

Shen Zhong, Junwei Li, Xi Chen and Hongmei Wen

The impact of internet development on the health of Chinese residents: Transmission mechanisms and empirical tests

Haitao Wu, Ning Ba, Siyu Ren, Lu Xu, Jingxia Chai, Muhammad Irfan, Yu Hao and Zhi-Nan Lu

An alternative ranking of DMUs performance for the ZSG-DEA model

Thanasis Bouzidis and Giannis Karagiannis

Reverse supply chain management approach for municipal solid waste with waste sorting subsidy policy

Jiuping Xu, Yidan Huang, Yi Shi and Ruolan Li

Multi-objective competency-based approach to project scheduling and staff assignment: Case study of an internal audit project

Xiong Wang, Fernando A.F. Ferreira and Ching-Ter Chang

Effects of disclosing inspection scores of health facilities

Felipe de Oliveira Simoyama, Flávia Mori Sarti and Mario Cesar Guimarães Battisti

Work, housing, and urban mobility in the megacity of São Paulo, Brazil

Júlio B. Chiquetto, Alexandre R. Leichsenring, Flávia N.D. Ribeiro and Wagner C. Ribeiro

Multi-objective optimization on total cost and carbon dioxide emission of coal supply for coal-fired power plants in Indonesia

Firly Rachmaditya Baskoro, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Katsumi Morikawa and Keisuke Nagasawa

An MCDM-based game-theoretic approach for strategy selection in higher education

Yeliz Ekinci, Benan Zeki Orbay and Melis Almula Karadayi

Size efficiency, splits and merger gains, and centralized resource reallocation of Spanish public universities

I. Contreras and S. Lozano

Solving the problem of maximizing diversity in public sector teams

Irit Talmor

Collaboration-based reliable optimal casualty evacuation network design for large-scale emergency preparedness

Huiping Sun, Yuchen Li and Jianghua Zhang

Corporate social performances of firms in select developed economies: A comparative study

R. Rajesh, A. Rajeev and Chandrasekharan Rajendran

Is poverty predictable with machine learning? A study of DHS data from Kyrgyzstan

Qing Li, Shuai Yu, Damien Échevin and Min Fan

The economics of stop-and-go epidemic control

Claudius Gros and Daniel Gros

Smart urban logistics: Literature review and future directions

Gülçin Büyüközkan and Öykü Ilıcak

A comparative assessment of air quality across European countries using an integrated decision support model

Ali Ebadi Torkayesh, Reza Alizadeh, Leili Soltanisehat, Sajjad Ebadi Torkayesh and Peter D. Lund

Research on option pricing and coordination mechanism of festival food supply chain

Yemei Li, Yanfei Shan and Shuang Ling

Frequent pattern mining augmented by social network parameters for measuring graduation and dropout time factors: A case study on a production engineering course

Breno dos Santos de Assis, Eduardo Ogasawara, Rafael Barbastefano and Diego Carvalho

Strata-based quantification of distributional uncertainty in socio-economic indicators: A comparative study of Indian states

Abhik Ghosh, Olivia Mallick, Souvik Chattopadhay and Banasri Basu

The ideal use of the internet and academic success: Finding a balance between competences and knowledge using interval multiobjective programming

Claudia Prieto-Latorre, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo, Mariano Luque and Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez

Impacts of carbon trading mechanism on closed-loop supply chain: A case study of stringer pallet remanufacturing

Haolan Liao, Di Wu, Yuhan Wang, Zeyu Lyu, Hongmei Sun, Yongyou Nie and He He

A Bi-objective optimization model for contract design of humanitarian relief goods procurement considering extreme disasters

Yingzhen Chen, Qiuhong Zhao, Kai Huang and Xunzhuo Xi

The operational mechanism and effectiveness of China's central environmental protection inspection: Evidence from air pollution

Po Kou, Ying Han and Xiaoyuan Qi

Does environmental regulation promote the high-quality development of manufacturing? A quasi-natural experiment based on China's carbon emission trading pilot scheme

Lianghu Wang, Zhao Wang and Yatian Ma

Volume 80, issue C, 2022

Outlier knowledge management for extreme public health events: Understanding public opinions about COVID-19 based on microblog data

Huosong Xia, Wuyue An, Jiaze Li and Zhang, Zuopeng (Justin)

Novel spatiotemporal feature extraction parallel deep neural network for forecasting confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019

Chiou-Jye Huang, Yamin Shen, Ping-Huan Kuo and Yung-Hsiang Chen

Empirical research on smart city construction and public health under information and communications technology

Wenqing Wu, Dongyang Zhu, Wenyi Liu and Chia-Huei Wu

Development path based on the equalization of public services under the management mode of the Internet of Things

Jing Wu and Jian Xiao

Can artificial intelligence enable the government to respond more effectively to major public health emergencies? ——Taking the prevention and control of Covid-19 in China as an example

Lei Zhu, Peilin Chen, Dandan Dong and Zhixin Wang

Digital public health: Automation based on new datasets and the Internet of Things

Elena G. Popkova and Bruno S. Sergi

Preventing crimes against public health with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities

Hongning Wang and Sanjun Ma

A hybrid multiple-criteria decision portfolio with the resource constraints model of a smart healthcare management system for public medical centers

Chih-Hao Yang, Wei Hsu and Yong-Lin Wu

The imprinting effect of SARS experience on the fear of COVID-19: The role of AI and big data

Haitang Yao, Wei Liu, Chia-Huei Wu and Yu-Hsi Yuan

Data-driven test strategy for COVID-19 using machine learning: A study in Lahore, Pakistan

Chuanli Huang, Min Wang, Warda Rafaqat, Salman Shabbir, Liping Lian, Jun Zhang, Siuming Lo and Weiguo Song

Predicting ambulance offload delay using a hybrid decision tree model

Mengyu Li, Peter Vanberkel and Xiang Zhong

Simultaneous action or protection after production? Decision making based on a chance-constrained approach by measuring environmental performance considering PM2.5

Anyu Yu, Puwei Zhang and Simon Rudkin

Performance evaluation for regional innovation systems development in China based on the two-stage SBM-DNDEA model

Tzu-Yu Lin, Sheng-Hsiung Chiu and Hai-Lan Yang

What causes spatial inequalities of low-carbon development in China's transport sector? A newly proposed meta-frontier DEA-based decomposition approach

Yin-Shuang Xia, Lu-Xuan Sun and Chao Feng

Performance of tax simplification around the world: A panel frontier analysis

Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Binh Thai Pham, Diego Prior and Stefan van Hemmen

A socio-economic and environmental vulnerability assessment model with causal relationships in electric power supply chains

Amin Vafadarnikjoo, Madjid Tavana, Konstantinos Chalvatzis and Tiago Botelho

An integrated CRITIC and MABAC based type-2 neutrosophic model for public transportation pricing system selection

Vladimir Simic, Ilgin Gokasar, Muhammet Deveci and Ahmet Karakurt

Planning for relief distribution, victim evacuation, redistricting and service sharing under uncertainty

Behnam Vahdani, D. Veysmoradi, S.M. Mousavi and M. Amiri

A multi-criteria and stochastic robustness analysis approach to compare nations sustainability

Javier Pereira, Pedro Contreras, Danielle C. Morais and Pilar Arroyo-López

Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Luis Fernando Chaves, Mariel D. Friberg, Lisbeth A. Hurtado, Rodrigo Marín Rodríguez, David O'Sullivan and Luke R. Bergmann

Accounting multiple environmental variables in DEA energy transmission benchmarking modelling: The 2019 Brazilian case

Aline Veronese da Silva, Marcelo Azevedo Costa and Ana Lúcia Lopes-Ahn

Putting Health 4.0 at the service of Society 5.0: Exploratory insights from a pilot study

Maria Vincenza Ciasullo, Francesco Orciuoli, Alexander Douglas and Rocco Palumbo

Curing is caring? Liability reforms, defensive medicine and malpractice litigation in a post-pandemic world

Angelo Antoci, Alessandro Fiori Maccioni, Paolo Russu and Pier Luigi Sacco

A bi-level multi-objective location-routing optimization model for disaster relief operations considering public donations

Saeed Khanchehzarrin, Mona Ghaebi Panah, Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri and Saber Shiripour

Predictive resilience of interdependent water and transportation infrastructures: A sociotechnical approach

Armin Rahimi-Golkhandan, Babak Aslani and Shima Mohebbi

Do the rank difference of industrial development zones affect land use efficiency? A regional analysis in China

Wei Chen, Zhi Su, Yanan Wang, Qian Wang and Guoli Zhao

Housing markets, the great crisis, and metropolitan gradients: Insights from Greece, 2000–2014

Sabato Vinci, Francesca Bartolacci, Rosanna Salvia and Luca Salvati

Lifestyle dynamics index: Worldwide results and the case of the United States of America

Raúl G. Sanchis and José Vicente-Pérez

Performance evaluation of Turkish Universities by an integrated Bayesian BWM-TOPSIS model

Muhammet Gul and Melih Yucesan

Designing pandemic-resilient voting systems

Adam Schmidt and Laura A. Albert

Blockchain in humanitarian operations management: A review of research and practice

Kyle Hunt, Adithya Narayanan and Jun Zhuang

Ensuring multidimensional equality in public service

Damla Akoluk and Özlem Karsu

Performance assessment on technology transition from small businesses to the U.S. Department of Defense

Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Youngbok Ryu

Fair and diverse allocation of scarce resources

Hadis Anahideh, Lulu Kang and Nazanin Nezami

When more is less: Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) improve health outcomes? An empirical investigation in a non-linear framework

Viorela Ligia Văidean and Monica Violeta Achim

Comparative study of a mathematical epidemic model, statistical modeling, and deep learning for COVID-19 forecasting and management

Mohammad Masum, M.A. Masud, Muhaiminul Islam Adnan, Hossain Shahriar and Sangil Kim

Does the opening of China railway express promote urban total factor productivity? New evidence based on SDID and SDDD model

Chunying Li, Jinning Zhang and Yanwei Lyu