To this end, we analyzed 50 major crisis events across four categories using a Proxy structural vector autoregressive (Proxy-SVAR) model. The results show that these events substantially impacted crude oil production, world crude oil prices, and inflation in China and the United States. Generally ...
These include the enactment of the Social Security Act in 1935, creating the first federal social insurance and federal-state public assistance programs; President Johnson’s War on Poverty launched in 1964 that sought to address the “causes, not just the consequences of poverty” and began a p...
The CPI has a predictive value. Its readings can be interpret in different ways, depending on economic context. In case we have a sluggish economy and the annualized core CPI accelerates more than projected during a given period, approaching the inflation target set by the Federal Reserve, this...
Based on their net migration propensity probability, this study classified cities within the urban clusters into three categories: cities with in-migration propensity, out-migration propensity, and relatively balanced propensity. Of the 26 cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban cluster, Fig. 1 shows...
improve the people’s wellbeing maintain overall social stability These efforts will ensure that we make further progress in building a great country and advancing national rejuvenation on all fronts through Chinese modernization. 今年发展主要预期目标是:国内生产总值增长5%左右;城镇新增就业1200万人以上,城镇...
from Seattle's Space Needle to Chicago's Willis Tower and New York City's Empire State Building. While they may now be indelible markers in their metros, these buildings are relatively new. After all, it wasn't until the late 19th century that cities in the United States started to grow...
It isn’t only groceries that are increasing in price. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the US consumer price index (CPI) surged in April by 4.2%, the most in any 12-month period since 2008, as economic activity picked up but was constrained in some sectors by supply ...
furniture, leather goods, rubber and plastic products, and automobiles and parts, are also growing steadily. The latter two categories are apparently not suffering from heavy over-capacity. As the latest data for the whole year of 2015 is not yet available, the data below shows the first 11...
in SQL Server Analysis Services 2016, the LASSO package together with logit and melogit regressions with raw coefficients in Stata 16. We further conducted different types of tests and cross-validations on the wave, country, gender, and age categories. For eliminating multicollinearity, we used ...
Therefore, a dummy variable can represent the implementation status with two distinct categories in our analysis. 3.2.3. Control Variables A number of control variables relating to crop production have been included. Fertilizer consumption and pesticide consumption per mu3 are two important inputs for...