We use a large laboratory experimental data involving 2,118 Chinese subjects from Singapore and 1,260 Chinese subjects from Beijing and 400 Jewish subjects from Israel to investigate gender and country difference in altruistic giving using the Andreoni-Miller dictator game (AMDG). Our results...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has taken bold actions since 2016 to utilize low-grade industrial excess heat to improve the energy efficiency of district heating systems. This study aims to draw policy insights into the PRC's field experience of overcoming barriers to energy efficiency...

Purpose: To identify factors responsible for variation in health among married individuals, we investigated the independent associations of spousal age and education gaps (or “heterogamy”) with all-cause and cause-specific mortality as well as with survival of cancer patients.Methods: We...

This paper focuses on how the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policies influenced non-financial firms. The paper's two main contributions are, first, to shed light on non-financial firms' decisions on leverage, and how the ECB's conventional and unconventional policies may have affected...