The targeting efficiency and the coverage of social programs for the poor are typically analyzed by partitioning the total population in four mutually exclusive groups: the poor who benefit from a program or policy, the poor who do not benefit, the non-poor who benefit, and the non-poor who do...

The online E-learning is become famous and essential environment to all in this COVID pandemic situation. Today’s fast growing business landscape signifying for enterprises, academic, administrations along with their supporting technical team to make acquainted to irregular situations quickly...

Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they were used by roughly a quarter of site visitors. Given the ad-supported nature of much of the web, ad blocking poses a threat to site revenue and, if revenue losses undermine...

A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...

We examine the activities of multihoming workers in the gig economy, characterized by their switching between gig economy platforms, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we use a comprehensive dataset from an analytics company that tracks the...