Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 79, issue C, 2022

Multi-period optimization model for planning people allocation in shelters and distributing aid with special constraints

Juliano Silva Souza, Flávio Araújo Lim-Apo, Leonardo Varella, Antônio Sérgio Coelho and João Carlos Souza

Land use efficiency and technology gaps of urban agglomerations in China: An extended non-radial meta-frontier approach

Tao Ding, Jie Yang, Huaqing Wu and Liang Liang

Rethinking performance measurement models using a fuzzy logic system approach: a performative exploration on ownership in waste management

Alessandra Tafuro, Giuseppe Dammacco, Paolo Esposito and Giovanni Mastroleo

A biobjective hierarchical location-allocation approach for the regionalization of maternal-neonatal care

Şakir Karakaya and Sedef Meral

A political-economy perspective on mayoral elections and urban crime

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

An integrated rough group multicriteria decision-making model for the ex-ante prioritization of infrastructure projects: The Serbian Railways case

Dragan Pamucar, Dragana Macura, Madjid Tavana, Darko Božanić and Nikola Knežević

A data-driven approach to scheduling the U.S. presidential primary elections

Robert M. Saltzman and Richard M. Bradford

Fair efficiency decomposition in network DEA: A compromise programming approach

Gregory Koronakos, Dimitrios Sotiros, Dimitris K. Despotis and Manolis N. Kritikos

A quantitative approach for analysis of macroeconomic resilience due to socio-economic shocks

Hojat Rezaei Soufi, Akbar Esfahanipour and Mohsen Akbarpour Shirazi

The determinants of university dropout: A review of the socio-economic literature

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone and Francesco Pastore

Preference heterogeneity of local government for implementing ICT infrastructure and services through public-private partnership mechanism

Bikram Acharya, Jongsu Lee and HyungBin Moon

Does quality help the financial viability of hospitals? A data envelopment analysis approach

O. Onder, W. Cook and M. Kristal

Road speed limit matters – Are politicians doing the right thing?

Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de Albornoz, Juan Molina Millán, Antonio Lara Galera and Belén Muñoz Medina

A stochastic programming model for emergency supply planning considering transportation network mitigation and traffic congestion

Qingyi Wang and Xiaofeng Nie

One year of COVID-19 in Italy: are containment policies enough to shape the pandemic pattern?

Demetrio Panarello and Giorgio Tassinari

Predicting success in United States Air Force pilot training using machine learning techniques

Phillip R. Jenkins, William N. Caballero and Raymond R. Hill

Efficiency and quality in Colombian education: An application of the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Alexei Arbona, Víctor Giménez, Sebastián López-Estrada and Diego Prior

A Markov model examining intervention effects on the HIV prevalence/incidence amongst the overall population

Arash Ghayoori and Rakesh Nagi

A study of barriers for adoption and growth of food banks in India using hybrid DEMATEL and Analytic Network Process

Nistha Dubey and Ajinkya Tanksale

A multi-objective model for optimizing the socio-economic performance of a pharmaceutical supply chain

Firoz Ahmad, Khalid A. Alnowibet, Adel F. Alrasheedi and Ahmad Yusuf Adhami

Establishing a statewide electric vehicle charging station network in Maryland: A corridor-based station location problem

Sevgi Erdoğan, İsmail Çapar, İbrahim Çapar and Mohammad Motalleb Nejad

Heterogeneous impact of high speed railway on income distribution: A case study in China

Mengjie Jin, Wenming Shi, Yu Liu, Xiaoling Xu and Kevin X. Li

Comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art contractor selection models in construction environment-A critical review and future call

Ali Raza Khoso, Aminah Md Yusof, Zhen-Song Chen, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Kwai-Sang Chin, Shabir Hussain Khahro and Samiullah Sohu

The impact of socio-economic and fractionalization determinants on terrorism in ESNA

Chunxia Sun, Hafiz Syed Mohsin Abbas, Xiaodong Xu and Sadia Abbas

Performance assessment of water services in Brazilian municipalities: An integrated view of efficiency and access

Marco Tourinho, Paulo Rosa Santos, Francisco Taveira Pinto and Ana S. Camanho

Measuring the quality of service of water companies: A two-stage goal programming synthetic index proposal

María Molinos-Senante, Laura Delgado-Antequera and Trinidad Gómez

A standardized framework for quantitative assessment of cities’ socioeconomic resilience and its improvement measures

Shantanu Kumar and Mohammed S.Hashem M. Mehany

Supplier selection in the oil & gas industry: A comprehensive approach for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Amir Karbassi Yazdi, Peter Fernandes Wanke, Thomas Hanne, Farshid Abdi and Amir Homayoun Sarfaraz

Contradiction and mechanism analysis of science and technology input-output: Evidence from key universities in China

Qinwei Cao, Shunli Qiu and Jian Huang

Exposing the ideal combination of endogenous–exogenous drivers for companies’ ecoinnovative orientation: Results from machine-learning methods

Ángel Peiró-Signes, Marival Segarra-Oña, Óscar Trull-Domínguez and Joaquín Sánchez-Planelles

Sanitation and water services: Who is the most efficient provider public or private? Evidences for Brazil

Mariana de Souza Pereira, Fernando Jorge Corrêa Magalhães Filho, Priscila de Morais Lima, Benjamin Tabak and Michel Constantino

Volume 78, issue C, 2021

Averting adverse selection: The Government of India's scheme to distribute affordable medicines

S. Srivatsa Srinivas and Rahul R. Marathe

Customers satisfaction in pediatric inpatient services: A multiple criteria satisfaction analysis

Diogo Cunha Ferreira, Rc Marques, Alexandre Morais Nunes and José Rui Figueira

The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea: Empirical evidence on policy interventions

Carlo Amenta, Paolo Di Betta and Calogero Ferrara

Traces of the Iron Curtain: A multivariate analysis of regional cohesion in Europe

Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Korony and Peter Nijkamp

An alternative quality of life ranking on the basis of remittances

Dóra Petróczy

Metafrontier efficiency analysis for hospital pharmacy services using dynamic network DEA framework

Kok Fong See, Nurhafiza Md Hamzah and Ming-Miin Yu

An integrated BWM-LBWA-CoCoSo framework for evaluation of healthcare sectors in Eastern Europe

Ali Ebadi Torkayesh, Dragan Pamucar, Fatih Ecer and Prasenjit Chatterjee

Can stable environmental protection officials’ tenure reduce illegal emissions?

He Li and Juan Lu

Local tax management in Spain: A study of the conditional efficiency of provincial tax agencies

Irene Belmonte-Martin, Lidia Ortiz and Cristina Polo

Relationships between technical efficiency and subsidies for Czech farms: A two-stage robust approach

Lukáš Frýd and Ondřej Sokol

Spatial dependence, agglomeration externalities and the convergence of carbon productivity

Neng Shen, Hui Peng and Qunwei Wang

The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia

Tomas Zelinsky, Oto Hudec, Alena Mojsejová and Silvia Hricová

The performance of green innovation: From an efficiency perspective

Nan Zhao, Xiaojie Liu, Changfeng Pan and Chenyang Wang

Crowdshipping in last mile deliveries: Operational challenges and research opportunities

Elham Pourrahmani and Miguel Jaller

Assessment of the sustainable development of rural minority settlements based on multidimensional data and geographical detector method: A case study in Dehong, China

Fei Zhao, Sujin Zhang, Quanda Du, Jieyu Ding, Guize Luan and Zhiqiang Xie

Interdicting interdependent contraband smuggling, money and money laundering networks

Yeming Shen, Thomas C. Sharkey, Boleslaw K. Szymanski and Wallace, William (Al)

Religious participation and attitude towards LGBT+ communities. The case of Italy

Massimiliano Agovino, Massimiliano Cerciello and Federica D'Isanto

Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography

Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

A two-period newsvendor model for prepositioning with a post-disaster replenishment using Bayesian demand update

T. Devi Prasad Patra and J.K. Jha

Network effects in influenza spread: The impact of mobility and socio-economic factors

Courtney Burris, Alexander Nikolaev, Shiran Zhong and Ling Bian

Environmental performance evaluation: A state-level DEA analysis

Estefanía Caridad Avilés-Sacoto, Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto, David Güemes-Castorena and Wade D. Cook

The socio-economic determinants of COVID-19: A spatial analysis of German county level data

Andree Ehlert

Bancarization and violent attacks from guerrilla and other illegal groups in Colombia

Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, John Castro-Pantoja, Laura C. Díaz-Barreto, Tatiana A. Mora-Arbeláez and Daniela Rodriguez-Novoa

A priority-based multi-objective framework for water resources diversion and allocation in the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project

Siwei Zhao, Weidong Liu, Mengyuan Zhu, Yanfang Ma and Zongmin Li

Social sustainability of regional transportation: An assessment framework with application to EU road transport

Agnieszka Stefaniec, Keyvan Hosseini, Saeed Assani, Seyed Maziar Hosseini and Yongjun Li

The impacts of the tourism sector on the eco-efficiency of the Latin American and Caribbean countries

Daniela Castilho, José Alberto Fuinhas and António Cardoso Marques