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Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Kevin Tran According to recent estimates, in 2017 971 million people worldwide suffered mental health issues (GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators, 2018). Among these, 264 million had depression (of which 163 million cases were major ones) and 284 million had anxiety disorders. Mental disorders may have important adverse individual effects including reduced employment and lower earnings (Ridley et al. 2020).  There has existed a substantial mental health gap in sexual orientation that may be attributed ...

By Lars P. SyllCauses deduced in an experimental setting still have to show that they come with an export-warrant to the target population/system. The causal background assumptions made have to be justified, and without licenses to export, the value of ‘rigorous’ and ‘precise’ methods - and ‘on-average-knowledge’ - is despairingly small.

Water research, eco school prize winners announced By: ONA Muscat: The Middle East Desalination Research Centre (MEDRC) announced on Wednesday the names of winners of ‘Omani Young Water Researchers Award 2020’ and the ‘Eco School Prize’. The competition seeks to encourage Omani youths to conduct studies in the field of water use and water resources. The prize for the higher studies category went to Ibtihal Al Mantheri of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), whose entry was titled ‘Water, Land and Energy Use Efficiencies of AC-cooled Greenhouses Based on Field Experiments.’ In the under...

Credit: San Diego State University If you are a consumer and/or entrepreneur who can make decisions based on cost, competition, supply and demand, you probably possess an element of marketplace literacy. "Marketplace literacy" is defined as the knowledge and skills that enable individuals to participate in a marketplace both as consumers and entrepreneurs. San Diego State University marketing professor Nita Umashankar, along with professors Madhubalan Viswanathan (Loyola Marymount University), Arun Sreekumar (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) and Ashley Goreczny (Iowa State Univers...

Weekly links February 12: Design us a new logo, spatial discontinuity in 1893, policing research, and more… ·       Design a new logo for us! As we approach our 10-year birthday for the blog, we would like to replace our “meteor impacting the earth” default picture with something that better conveys impact evaluation and is only at most econometrically threatening. The challenge is coming up with something good to replace it with. We would like to hire (ideally from a developing country) an artist/someone with an artistic side who can come up with a new design (which we will pay...