Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 92, issue C, 2024

Goal-gradient point rewards can increase consumers' willingness to purchase poverty-alleviating products

Fei Zou, Mei Yang, Yanju Zhou, Yaling Deng and Baiwei Xie

A data center expansion scheme considering net-zero carbon operation: Optimization of geographical location, on-site renewable utilization and green certificate purchase

Fengjuan Wang and Chengwei Lv

Multi-period state healthcare efficiency for heterogeneous parallel hospital units

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

Dual mode scheduling in volunteer management

Mariana Escallon-Barrios, Reut Noham and Karen Smilowitz

Water Utility Service Quality Index: A customer-centred approach for assessing the quality of service in the water sector

Hermilio Vilarinho, Miguel Alves Pereira, D’Inverno, Giovanna, Henriqueta Nóvoa and Ana S. Camanho

Is austerity good for efficiency, at least? A counterfactual assessment for the Italian NHS

Calogero Guccio, Giacomo Pignataro, Domenica Romeo and Francesco Vidoli

Can the opening of high-speed rail boost the reduction of air pollution and carbon emissions? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Zhen Liu, Ziyu Diao and Yuan Lu

The impact of pilot free trade zones on entrepreneurship: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Zhaohua Li, Suqin Pang and Zhiyun Zhu

Decentralized exam timetabling: A solution for conducting exams during pandemics

Atiyeh Modirkhorasani and Pooya Hoseinpour

Income inequality convergence among EU regions

Francesco Savoia

Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the US and France

Laura Policardo and Edgar Sánchez Carrera

Fuzzy clustering of the healthy life expectancy decomposition: A multi-population analysis

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Susanna Levantesi and Andrea Nigri

A holistic decision-making approach to assessing service quality in higher education institutions

Aleyna Sahin, Gul Imamoglu, Mirac Murat and Ertugrul Ayyildiz

Robustness analysis for imprecise additive value efficiency analysis with an application to evaluation of special economic zones in Poland

Anna Labijak-Kowalska, Miłosz Kadziński and Luis Dias

Governance forms of the pharmaceutical supply chain of Bogota, Colombia

Rafael Guillermo García-Cáceres, Sergio Torres-Valdivieso and Adolfo del Razo-Hernandez

Municipal strategies, fiscal incentives and co-production in urban waste management

Fabio Fiorillo and Elvina Merkaj

Bank failure prediction models: Review and outlook

Alberto Citterio

Water dynamics and environmental social practice in a differential game

Marta Biancardi, Gianluca Iannucci and Giovanni Villani

Uncovering heterogeneous inequities induced by COVID-19 interventions: Evidence from three states in the U.S

Vysaaly Sivakumaar, Shakiba Enayati and Ekundayo Shittu

Government should be merciful or strict: Penalizing defaulting suppliers in emergency supply chains

Xuanyu Wu, Min Yang and Liang Liang

The alternative ranking using two-step logarithmic normalization method for benchmarking the supply chain performance of countries

Karahan Kara, Galip Cihan Yalçın, Vladimir Simic, Zeynep Baysal and Dragan Pamucar

School education development index: A meta-frontier range directional measure benefit-of-the-doubt model

Rachita Gulati, Vincent Charles and Sunil Kumar

Assessing the impact of hybrid teaching on students’ academic performance via multilevel propensity score-based techniques

Alessandra Ragni, Daniel Ippolito and Chiara Masci

Efficiency of funding to rural revitalization and regional heterogeneity of technologies in China: Dynamic network nonconvex metafrontiers

Tiantian Ren, Na Wang, Helu Xiao and Zhongbao Zhou

An optimization approach to improve equitable access to local parks

Anisa Young, Emily L. Tucker, Mariela Fernandez, David White, Robert Brookover and Brandon Harris

Assessment and spatial effect of urban agglomeration business environments: A case study of two urban agglomerations in China

Hao Lu, Yiwei Fan, Liudan Jiao and Ya Wu

Home healthcare in Spanish rural areas: Applying vehicle routing algorithms to health transport management

Cristian Castillo, Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau, Laura Calvet, Javier Panadero, Marta Viu-Roig, Anna Serena-Latre and Angel Juan

The government intervention effectiveness in promoting remanufacturing: Subsidy or remanufacturing target?

Li Luo, Renbang Shan and Jie Xiang

Effects of environmental liability insurance on illegal pollutant discharge of heavy polluting enterprises: Emission reduction incentives or pollution protector?

Juan Lu, He Li and Ran Yang

Delphi-based scenarios and risk management: A parallelism between paths destined to meet

Simone Di Zio, Mario Bolzan, Marco Marozzi and Manuela Scioni

Combination of autoregressive graphical models and time series bootstrap methods for risk management in marine insurance

Federico Carli, Elena Pesce, Francesco Porro and Eva Riccomagno

A risk-averse stochastic optimization model for community resilience planning

Tasnim Ibn Faiz and Kenneth W. Harrison

A practical optimization framework for political redistricting: A case study in Arizona

Rahul Swamy, Douglas M. King, Ian G. Ludden, Kiera W. Dobbs and Sheldon H. Jacobson

Cost-effectiveness of a medication review intervention for general practitioners and their multimorbid older patients with polypharmacy

Katharina Tabea Jungo, Paola Salari, Rahel Meier, Michael Bagattini, Marco Spruit, Nicolas Rodondi, Sven Streit and Matthias Schwenkglenks

The humanitarian vehicle routing problem with non-routineness of trips

Ibrahim Alturki and Seokcheon Lee

A new DEA model and its application in performance evaluation of scientific research activities in the universities of China's double first-class initiative

Xing Liu, Xianhua Wu and Weipan Zhang

An original approach to anomalies in intertemporal choices through functional data analysis: Theory and application for the study of Hikikomori syndrome

Viviana Ventre, Roberta Martino, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Fabrizio Maturo and Annamaria Porreca

Private entities motivations to participate in public-private partnerships

Agnieszka Kopańska, Roman Osinski and Bartosz Korbus

Measuring the impact of the EU health emergency response authority on the economic sectors and the public sentiment

Daniel Felix Ahelegbey, Alessandro Celani and Paola Cerchiello

Energy poverty as capacity deprivation: A study of social housing using the partially ordered set

Chiara Grazini

Benchmarking performance through efficiency analysis trees: Improvement strategies for colombian higher education institutions

José Zofío, Juan Aparicio, Javier Barbero and Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia

An empirical analysis of the effect of economic activity and COVID-19 restrictions on road traffic accidents in Italy

Beatrice Biondi and Mario Mazzocchi

Planning for the optimal vaccination sequence in the context of a population-stratified model

Jingwen Zhang, Xinwei Wang, Lili Rong, Qiuwei Pan, Chunbing Bao and Qinyue Zheng

European agricultural sector: The tortuous path across efficiency, sustainability and environmental risk

Anna Mergoni, Anna Rita Dipierro and Chiara Colamartino

Evaluating sustainable service quality in higher education from a multi-stakeholder perspective: An integrated fuzzy group decision-making method

Tiantian Bao, Yifan Liu, Zhongzhen Yang, Shanhua Wu and Zhenli Yan

Congestion effects of energy and its influencing factors: China's transportation sector

Qinghua Pang, Man Qiu, Lina Zhang and Yung-Ho Chiu

A single-valued neutrosophic CIMAS-CRITIC-RBNAR decision support model for the financial performance analysis: A study of technology companies

Karahan Kara, Galip Cihan Yalçın, Aslı Çetinkaya, Vladimir Simic and Dragan Pamucar

Rhetoric and reality of public-private partnerships in China: A sustainable public procurement perspective

Fuguo Cao, Runyu Li and Shaobo Guo

“Laboratory nationalism”: Policy innovation in China

Jinbao Qian and Linmu Li

A statistical analysis of COVID-19 mortality dynamics: Unraveling the interplay between vaccination trends, socioeconomic factors, and government interventions in Brazilian states

Jéssica Villar, Lucas Maddalena, Thaís de Abreu Camargo, Paula Medina Maçaira, Fernanda Baião and Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira