Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the impacts on forest cover of one India's signature place-based policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure following creation state Uttarakhand. Using a spatial difference-in-discontinuities design, we show that policy, which explicitly excluded environmentally damaging industries, resu...

There are interaction effects between rural logistics and economic development. The effect rural logistics has on the economic development presents as an S-shaped curve. So the interaction effects between rural logistics and economic development vary at different stage. It’s necessary to analyse the interaction effects to make the appropriate policies to promote the development of rural logisti...

Like Archimedes who demanded a place to stand so that he could move the Earth, scientific journals also need a firm point to stand on. We use this example because it stresses the importance of determining the journal’s specific research field by editorial policies. One of the basic strategies for medical journals is to define their scope, which helps them to target specific readership, attract ...

Statistical significance tests (SSTs) have been the object of much controversy among social scientists. Proponents have hailed SSTs as an objective means for minimizing the likelihood that chance factors have contributed to research results; critics have both questioned the logic underlying SSTs and bemoaned the widespread misapplication and misinterpretation of the results of these tests. The ...