This study investigates the effects of city size and administrative rank on rural-urban migration in China and examines the factors that influence the city size effect. We focus on unemployed while job-seeking migrants. Using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey for 2016 and 2017, we find...

Introduction -- Principles and Background -- Discrete Facility Location Problems -- Decision Making under Uncertainty: Ingredients for Modeling -- Optimization under Uncertainty -- Modeling Paradigms and Solution Techniques -- Robust Facility Location -- Stochastic Facility Location -- Facility...

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

We study the impact on learning of a child's rank in the classroom using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between kindergarten and 6th grade.Therefore, two students with the same ability can have different...

Zitate spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Beurteilung der Qualität von Artikeln und Zeitschriften sowie der Leistungen von Forschern. Das Zitierverhalten in der Wissenschaft ist jedoch sehr unterschiedlich in den verschiedenen Disziplinen. So erhalten zum Beispiel Artikel in der Physik...