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  • Wealth shocks and self-reported health: evidence from the quasi natural experiment of housing system reform in China

    Wealth shocks and self-reported health: evidence from the quasi natural experiment of housing system reform in China

    Method

    Referring to the research of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003) as well as Wang (2012), this study employs a DID model to assess the effects of HSR on individuals’ self-reported health. The specific model settings are as follows:

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  • Innovation and industrial performance nexus: trends and insights from bibliometric evidence

    Innovation and industrial performance nexus: trends and insights from bibliometric evidence

    Trend topics analysis

    The field of innovation and industrial performance studies is constantly evolving, as illustrated in Fig. 2. In this analysis, we identify the trend of the topics for the last 16 years (2008–2024). During the initial period…

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  • Interactive role-play with climate policy simulation can motivate evidence-based climate action

    Interactive role-play with climate policy simulation can motivate evidence-based climate action

    Sample and data collection

    We used a pre-/post-survey design and collected survey data from 1246 participants across 33 Climate Action Simulation sessions (Tables SI1 and SI2). Participants included undergraduate and graduate students, as well as…

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  • Four strange secrets scientists just found in beer and wine

    Four strange secrets scientists just found in beer and wine

    Scientists regularly uncork fresh insights into beer and wine — even though they were invented thousands of years ago. Four recent discoveries go beyond buzz and bouquet, diving into the haziness and gluten content of beer as well as the…

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  • Mysterious “quantum echo” in superconductors could unlock new tech

    Mysterious “quantum echo” in superconductors could unlock new tech

    Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University have discovered an unexpected “quantum echo” in a superconducting material. This discovery provides insight into quantum behaviors that could be used…

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  • A pink bumpy snailfish was just discovered miles beneath the ocean

    A pink bumpy snailfish was just discovered miles beneath the ocean

    The bumpy snailfish is one of three new species of deep-sea snailfish described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo.

    MBARI’s advanced underwater technology is revealing the remarkable species that thrive in the deep sea. In 2019, MBARI…

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  • Time-varying effects of U.S. military expenditure on economic growth: a disaggregated data analysis

    Time-varying effects of U.S. military expenditure on economic growth: a disaggregated data analysis

    Table 2 presents the results of unit-root tests, revealing that most variables are non-stationary at the 5% significance level across the ADF, KSSUR, and Zivot–Andrews tests. The few instances where stationarity is detected (e.g., under ADF and…

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