The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...

Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions in their environments, the exact impact of these peer effects remains unclear. We thus use data from the 2014 and 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the...

This paper tests whether intergenerational transfers are given out of altruism or part of an exchange. We uniquely draw a distinction between the transfer motives in a semiparametric, two-part model. Compared to models employed by extant studies, this approach makes less parametric assumption,...

Online reservation system allows customers to join a queue and virtually wait for service before arriving on site. For example, some platforms have been designed to collect the information of restaurants and show the real-time congestion levels (e.g., Nowait). We consider a model in which...