Russell Thomson , Sarah Hegarty , Elizabeth Webster
{"title":"Female consumer preferences and workplace diversity: Evidence from the box office","authors":"Russell Thomson , Sarah Hegarty , Elizabeth Webster","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite widespread belief in the significance of female screenwriters depicting the female experience, there is little quantitative evidence that audiences differentiate writer gender or that it affects box office performance. We examine the relationship between the gender of screenwriters and box office returns using data on the gender of writers for 4749 films released between 2000 and 2022, and their box office performance in up to 95 consumer markets with varying levels of female purchasing power. Our identification strategy allows us to control for unobserved attributes of film quality which otherwise confound attribution of box office returns to the gender representation either on or off screen. Our data indicates that female-written films attract a premium in consumer markets where women have greater discretion over spending.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City bike systems as an element of building social awareness - The use of resources in a sustainable city","authors":"Justyna Żywiołek , Radosław Wolniak , Wieslaw Wes Grebski , Shashi Kant Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106312","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106312","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The city bike system is a promising instrument for promoting sustainable urban mobility through reduced energy consumption and environmental awareness support. This study investigates the environmental, economic, political, social, and technological determinants of the efficiency and user acceptance of bike-sharing systems, with a particular focus on new free-floating models (FFBS). We collected the data by implementing a large-scale survey of 60,000 respondents in six cities worldwide, enabling in-depth cross-city comparisons. While confirming that urban bikes are predominantly used for close-distance commutes during peak hours—a phenomenon well discussed in past literature—our findings extend the existing level of technological determinism by pointing to emerging determinants of success within systems. Specifically, the study recognises that technological advancements (e.g., smartphone application design and smart route planning) significantly enhance user satisfaction and running efficiency. Besides, ecologism and health awareness are viewed as all-encompassing psychological drivers that add to previous perceptions characterised by convenience and price considerations. Notably, the report identifies variations in users' behaviour by socio-economic and geographical location, eroding homogeneity in worldwide trends toward adopting bike-sharing. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to analyse how the most important factors directly and indirectly affect each other, showing that technology, social aspects, and environmental issues have the biggest impact on whether people accept the system. The results yield practical policy suggestions for urban policymakers and planners, emphasising the importance of coordinated public and private strategies, user-focused infrastructure planning, and customised educational programs to facilitate sustainable, equitable urban transport systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 106312"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persuaded Search","authors":"Teddy Mekonnen, Zeky Murra-Anton, Bobak Pakzad-Hurson","doi":"10.1086/736765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/736765","url":null,"abstract":"Journal of Political Economy, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":16875,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Economy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydrogen distribution in the Netherlands: Addressing Ambiguities in the regulatory framework","authors":"Renske van ‘t Veer , Hidde Meijer , Zofia Lukszo , Mahshid Hasankhani , Amineh Ghorbani","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114794","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114794","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hydrogen is increasingly recognized as a key solution for decarbonizing the Dutch energy system, particularly within the industrial sector. A national hydrogen network is under development to serve the five major industrial clusters in the Netherlands. However, meeting the hydrogen needs of the industries outside these clusters, which are collectively known as “Cluster 6”, remains difficult. Regulatory unclarity and ambiguity around the hydrogen distribution infrastructure, including restrictions on distribution system operators (DSOs), compound these challenges. This study investigates the complex and evolving regulatory landscape for hydrogen distribution across Cluster 6 in the Netherlands using a two-step approach of Institutional Network Analysis (INA) and stakeholder interviews. Findings outline possible pathways for delegating distribution responsibilities in current and future regulatory frameworks while stakeholders report structural and outcome uncertainty, limiting their willingness to invest in hydrogen distribution initiatives. The research findings highlight the need for a more coherent regulatory and technical framework to support more effective development of physical hydrogen systems. Policy recommendations include clarification of distributor roles, targeted support mechanisms, and flexible regulations that can adapt to the rapidly developing hydrogen market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114794"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model of rejection-based decision making","authors":"Bhavook Bhardwaj , Kriti Manocha","doi":"10.1016/j.jet.2025.106060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jet.2025.106060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a model of decision making based on a procedure of <em>rejection</em>. Departing from the standard model of choice via preference maximization, the decision maker (DM) in our model rejects <em>minimal</em> alternatives from a menu according to a binary relation. We axiomatically study the correspondence of non-rejected alternatives with different rationality conditions on the underlying binary relation. We then generalize our model to study correspondences generated by an iterative procedure of rejection. It is observed that the classical rational choice model is a special case of this model, thus providing a procedural description of selecting the maximal set. We find that the rejection approach developed in this paper can also explain anomalies observed in decision theory, such as the <em>two-decoy effect</em> or the <em>two-compromise effect</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48393,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Theory","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 106060"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144770951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Magerl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Christian Lauk, Nicolas Roux, Simone Gingrich
{"title":"Is decoupling enough to achieve the U.S. climate targets for agriculture and forestry? Historical greenhouse gas and biomass fluxes from AFOLU sector production in the United States, 1910–2022","authors":"Andreas Magerl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Christian Lauk, Nicolas Roux, Simone Gingrich","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The U.S. have committed to a 35 % decrease of non-CO<sub>2</sub> greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (CH<sub>4</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>O) by 2030. Around half of these emissions stem from the AFOLU sector (agriculture forestry, and other land-use), while forests sequester CO<sub>2</sub> through biomass growth. Efforts have centred on efficiency improvements to decouple biomass production from emissions. The goal of this study is to 1.) quantify the AFOLU sector's production and GHG dynamics between 1910 and 2022, 2.) conduct a decoupling analysis of sectoral and product trends, yearly and cumulatively, 3) evaluate how past and ongoing trends of decoupling compare to land-based climate mitigation targets. Key GHG emission sources include livestock and crop production. The AFOLU sector's annual GHG balance fluctuated between sinks and sources but cumulatively the sector emitted slightly less (42,914 Megatonnes CO<sub>2</sub> equivalents, MtCO<sub>2</sub>e) than it sequestered (−44,130 MtCO<sub>2</sub>e). Partial decoupling was achieved, driven by forestry dynamics, efficiency gains in livestock production, and shifts to less emission-intensive products. However, decoupling has been inconsistent, and increased agricultural production has offset efficiency gains. To achieving climate targets solely through decoupling would require emissions to fall 50 % stronger than they currently do. Our findings support research suggesting that sufficiency measures e.g. reducing livestock production and consumption are necessary to decouple food provision from GHG emissions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 108746"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CitiesPub Date : 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106345
Feng Gao , Yang Liu , Shunyi Liao , Ji Zhang , Zhenzhi Jiao , Xin Hu , Jielin Wu , Wangyang Chen , Guanyao Li
{"title":"Lively Guangzhou: Deciphering the divergent intra-urban vibrancy across historic districts and CBD using interpretable machine learning","authors":"Feng Gao , Yang Liu , Shunyi Liao , Ji Zhang , Zhenzhi Jiao , Xin Hu , Jielin Wu , Wangyang Chen , Guanyao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106345","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since <em>Jane Jacobs</em> introduced the concept of urban vibrancy in 1961, it has become a focal point of multidisciplinary research. However, existing literature lacks further exploration of intra-city differences. Therefore, this study uses Guangzhou as a case study, with HD and CBD as comparison groups, to comprehensively measure urban vibrancy and quantify its associations with built environment factors. First, urban vibrancy is measured using multi-source big data across four dimensions: population, facilities, social media, and offline consumption. Second, the XGBoost and SHAP-based interpretation with regional pooled modeling are employed to analyze the nonlinear and threshold effects of built environment factors on vibrancy. The results indicate: (1) The comprehensive vibrancy of CBD is slightly higher than that of HD. (2) Population density and the number of caterings are key factors in both HD and CBD. (3) The impact trends of the same variables on urban vibrancy in HD and CBD are similar, yet the threshold effects differ significantly. This study contributes by dissecting the vibrancy differences between areas with different functions and historical contexts within a city. The findings suggest that urban planners and scholars should acknowledge intra-city vibrancy differences and pay attention to the nonlinear and threshold effects of urban vibrancy mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 106345"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CitiesPub Date : 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106338
Tongchaoran Gao , Samson Lim , Fan Yang
{"title":"Space appropriation and interaction: How to promote social cohesion in high-density urban environments?","authors":"Tongchaoran Gao , Samson Lim , Fan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fostering social cohesion in high-density urban neighbourhoods is a critical urban challenge, as high-rise housing is often criticized for reducing interaction and diminishing trust between residents. This study argues that space appropriation, the practice of placing personal objects in common areas, can help address this challenge as it can facilitate interactions that foster trust and a sense of belonging. Drawing on environmental psychology and sociological perspectives, we conceptualize space appropriation as an essential form of neighbourhood communication, highlighting three mechanisms by which personal objects facilitate social interaction: signalling identity, regulating sensory exposure, and extending presence. We also propose that the visible placement patterns of personal objects serve as a valuable proxy for measuring the intensity of social interaction in a neighbourhood. To test our theory, we introduce Territory Network Analysis, a novel graph-theory-based method that uses the placement of personal objects in shared spaces to estimate neighbourhood interaction. Applied to twenty-eight public housing blocks in Singapore, Territory Network Analysis achieved a 78.9 % accuracy rate when comparing estimated social interaction scores from structured questionnaires of 231 respondents. The findings underscore space appropriation's significant contribution to community cohesion while highlighting the risks of restrictive management policies that stigmatize such behaviours. Such policies may inadvertently eliminate opportunities for interaction, ultimately hindering the formation of social bonds in high-rise residential buildings. This study therefore advocates for housing strategies that balance safety and functionality with the social potential of shared spaces, paving the way for more vibrant and cohesive communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 106338"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa?","authors":"Edwin Mumah, Yangfen Chen, Yu Hong","doi":"10.1111/1467-8268.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The welfare of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is pivotal for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the agricultural sector playing a vital role. Many SSA nations increasingly rely on agricultural foreign direct investment (AFDI) to enhance agricultural development and welfare. However, the impact of AFDI on welfare remains controversial and poorly understood. This study employs panel data and moments quantile regression to examine AFDI's effect across 45 SSA countries from 1990 to 2022. Results indicate a significant positive effect on the Human Development Index (HDI) as the welfare indicator, with a one-unit rise in AFDI linked to a 0.002%−0.008% increase in HDI. When the HDI is decomposed into income, education, and life expectancy, a one-unit increase in AFDI correlates with increased income levels ($0.001) and life expectancy (0.002 years). Further analysis identifies a threshold of $5.77 million of AFDI beyond which its positive impact on HDI declines. Findings suggest that sustained and consistent AFDI enhances sustainable development and overall welfare in the SSA.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47363,"journal":{"name":"African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement","volume":"37 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe Buccheri , Roberto Renò , Giorgio Vocalelli
{"title":"Taking advantage of biased proxies for forecast evaluation","authors":"Giuseppe Buccheri , Roberto Renò , Giorgio Vocalelli","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2025.106068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2025.106068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper rehabilitates biased proxies for the assessment of the predictive accuracy of competing forecasts. By relaxing the ubiquitous assumption of proxy unbiasedness adopted in the theoretical and empirical literature, we show how to optimally combine (possibly) biased proxies to maximize the probability of inferring the ranking that would be obtained using the true latent variable, a property that we dub proxy reliability. Our procedure still preserves the robustness of the loss function, in the sense of Patton (2011b), and allows testing for equal predictive accuracy, as in Diebold and Mariano (1995). We demonstrate the usefulness of the method with compelling empirical applications on GDP growth, financial market volatility forecasting, and sea surface temperature of the Niño 3.4 region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"251 ","pages":"Article 106068"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}