David S Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5984-8861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Attention Habit II: How selection history shapes the strategic control of attention
The allocation of attention is now widely understood to reflect the joint influence of goal-directed, stimulus-driven, and selection history-driven mechanisms of control. The influence of selection history is often discussed in the context of the involuntary control of attention, competing with goal-directed influences. Here, we argue that selection history also influences voluntary, goal-directed mechanisms of control, shaping the manner in whic…
Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios
Decarbonizing the aviation sector is a significant challenge. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recently released long-term CO 2 -focused mitigation goals involving changes in fuel, efficiency improvements, and fossil jet fuel phase-out. The ultimate climate effect of these goals, however, was not assessed and moreover, the non-CO 2 emissions were not accounted for. Here, we use the CICERO-SCM climate model and consider global …
Interpersonal goals and social support network: Examining the relation between perceived network density and burnout among nurses
Interpersonal goals were associated with how nurses cognitively represented their support networks, which was in turn associated with burnout. Future research should investigate whether fostering compassionate goals or strengthening perceptions of network interconnectedness is related to well-being
Worse than a braggart: Interpersonal costs of humblebragging in China
Humblebragging is a common, indirect self‐presentation strategy. However, its prevalence and effectiveness have never been tested in a non‐western culture. Here, we explored the use and social costs of humblebragging in China across five studies. Studies 1a and 1b demonstrated the form and content of humblebragging on social media in Chinese daily life. Study 2 showed that compared to direct braggarts, observers felt higher contempt and less admi…
Aversive conditioning, anxiety, and the strategic control of attention
What we pay attention to is influenced by both reward learning and aversive conditioning. Although early attention tends to be biased toward aversively conditioned stimuli, sustained ignoring of such stimuli is also possible. How aversive conditioning influences how a person chooses to search, or the strategic control of attention, has not been explored. In the present study, participants learned an association between a colour and an aversive ou…
Selection history contributes to suboptimal attention strategies
A “greenhouse gas balance” for aviation in line with the Paris Agreement
The effects of aviation on climate pose unique policy challenges. A large fraction of the CO 2 emissions (65%) is international and not (explicitly) included in the Paris Agreement. The interpretation of Article 4.1 on achieving a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases” is ambiguous in the context of aviation because of the substantial non‐CO 2 effects associated with the sector. For the achi…
Valid t -ratio Inference for IV
In the single-IV model, researchers commonly rely on t-ratio-based inference, even though the literature has quantified its potentially severe large-sample distortions. Building on Stock and Yogo (2005), we introduce the tF critical value function, leading to a standard error adjustment that is a smooth function of the first-stage F-statistic. For one-quarter of specifications in 61 AER papers, corrected standard errors are at least 49 and 136 pe…
Local Polynomial Order in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Treatment effect estimates in regression discontinuity (RD) designs are often sensitive to the choice of bandwidth and polynomial order, the two important ingredients of widely used local regression methods. While Imbens and Kalyanaraman and Calonico, Cattaneo, and Titiunik provided guidance on bandwidth, the sensitivity to polynomial order still poses a conundrum to RD practitioners. It is understood in the econometric literature that applying t…
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals
What motivates people to share contents that promote the image of the self versus the well-being of others on social media? Two studies examined how interpersonal goals, namely self-image goals and compassionate goals, influence intentions of sharing different contents on Instagram. According to research on interpersonal goals, self-image goals motivate people to maintain and demonstrate their desirable qualities to others; compassionate goals en…
The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018
Social by definition: How users define social platforms and why it matters
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary “decomposition” approach that compares the behavioral and mechanical components of a policy’s total impact on the government budget to study the deadweight loss of two unemployment insurance polici…
Introduction: Essays in Honor of John E. DiNardo
The influence of threat on the efficiency of goal-directed attentional control
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming
Growth in aviation contributes more to global warming than is generally appreciated because of the mix of climate pollutants it generates. Here, we model the CO 2 and non-CO 2 effects like nitrogen oxide emissions and contrail formation to analyse aviation’s total warming footprint. Aviation contributed approximately 4% to observed human-induced global warming to date, despite being responsible for only 2.4% of global annual emissions of CO 2 . A…
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
This paper studies the contribution of both labor and non-labor income in the growth in income inequality in the United States and large European economies. The paper first shows that the capital to labor income ratio disproportionately increased among high-earnings individuals, further contributing to the growth in overall income inequality. That said, the magnitude of this effect is modest, and the predominant driver of the growth in income ine…
The implications of carbon dioxide and methane exchange for the heavy mitigation RCP2.6 scenario under two metrics
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with Representative Concentration Pathway RCP2.6 could limit global warming to around or below a 2 °C increase since pre-industrial times. However this scenario implies very large and rapid reductions in both carbon dioxide (CO2) and non-CO2 emissions, and suggests a need to understand available flexibility between how different greenhouse gases might be abated. There is a growing interest in developing a great…
Something smells fishy: Olfactory suspicion cues improve performance on the Moses illusion and Wason rule discovery task
Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd Status and Trend
The Dolphin and Union caribou herd (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) is of great importance for Inuit subsistence and cultural needs. This herd is somewhat particular in that it relies on the seasonal connectivity of the sea ice between Victoria Island and the mainland to undertake its fall and spring migrations to and from its wintering ground on the mainland. While the herd may have numbered in the order of 100 000 animals in the past, it exper…
Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: Methodology and application
We present and discuss a new dataset of gridded emissions covering the historical period (1850–2000) in decadal increments at a horizontal resolution of 0.5° in latitude and longitude. The primary purpose of this inventory is to provide consistent gridded emissions of reactive gases and aerosols for use in chemistry model simulations needed by climate models for the Climate Model Intercomparison Program #5 (CMIP5) in support of the Intergovernmen…
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
This paper provides an introduction and “user guide” to Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design, details when RD is likely to be valid or invalid given economic incentives, explains why it is considered a “quasi-experimental” design, and summarizes different ways (with their advantages and disadvantages) of estimating RD designs and the limitations of interpreting th…
Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally funded job training programs in the U.S. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages is difficult to study because of sample selection, a pervasive problem in applied microeconometric research. Wage rates are only observed for those who are employed, and employment status itself may be affected by the…
Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century
Polar Bear Conservation in Canada: Defining the Policy Problems
Conservation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Canada is based on the goals and principles of the 1973 International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and Their Habitat, and has long been considered an exemplar of science-based wildlife management. However, accelerating social and ecological changes in the Arctic raise questions about the polar bear management regime’s ability to adapt successfully to new challenges. We apply the ana…
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
This paper studies the contribution of both labor and non-labor income in the growth in income inequality in the United States and large European economies. The paper first shows that the capital to labor income ratio disproportionately increased among high-earnings individuals, further contributing to the growth in overall income inequality. That said, the magnitude of this effect is modest, and the predominant driver of the growth in income ine…
The implications of carbon dioxide and methane exchange for the heavy mitigation RCP2.6 scenario under two metrics
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with Representative Concentration Pathway RCP2.6 could limit global warming to around or below a 2 °C increase since pre-industrial times. However this scenario implies very large and rapid reductions in both carbon dioxide (CO2) and non-CO2 emissions, and suggests a need to understand available flexibility between how different greenhouse gases might be abated. There is a growing interest in developing a great…
Single People
Wage Inequality in the United States During the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?
The magnitude of growth in “underlying” wage inequality in the United States during the 1980s is obscured by a concurrent decline in the federal minimum wage, which itself could cause an increase in observed wage inequality. This study uses regional variation in the relative level of the federal minimum wage to separately identify the impact of the minimum wage from nationwide growth in “latent” wage dispersion during the 1980s. The analysis sugg…
Narwhal hunting by Pond Inlet Inuit: An analysis of foraging mode in the floe-edge environment
The harvesting of narwhals by Baffin Island Inuit represents an important relationship in terms of the continuous utilization of an indigenous marine resource. However, research on Inuit hunting with respect to narwhals has been mainly confined to harvest counts despite the major role narwhals play in the local northern Baffin subsistence system. The present research examines Pond Inlet Inuit foraging behaviour for narwhals in the spring floe-edg…
Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections
Regression discontinuity inference with specification error
Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally funded job training programs in the U.S. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages is difficult to study because of sample selection, a pervasive problem in applied microeconometric research. Wage rates are only observed for those who are employed, and employment status itself may be affected by the…
Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century
Polar Bear Conservation in Canada: Defining the Policy Problems
Conservation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Canada is based on the goals and principles of the 1973 International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and Their Habitat, and has long been considered an exemplar of science-based wildlife management. However, accelerating social and ecological changes in the Arctic raise questions about the polar bear management regime’s ability to adapt successfully to new challenges. We apply the ana…
Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: Methodology and application
We present and discuss a new dataset of gridded emissions covering the historical period (1850–2000) in decadal increments at a horizontal resolution of 0.5° in latitude and longitude. The primary purpose of this inventory is to provide consistent gridded emissions of reactive gases and aerosols for use in chemistry model simulations needed by climate models for the Climate Model Intercomparison Program #5 (CMIP5) in support of the Intergovernmen…
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
This paper provides an introduction and “user guide” to Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design, details when RD is likely to be valid or invalid given economic incentives, explains why it is considered a “quasi-experimental” design, and summarizes different ways (with their advantages and disadvantages) of estimating RD designs and the limitations of interpreting th…
Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd Status and Trend
The Dolphin and Union caribou herd (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) is of great importance for Inuit subsistence and cultural needs. This herd is somewhat particular in that it relies on the seasonal connectivity of the sea ice between Victoria Island and the mainland to undertake its fall and spring migrations to and from its wintering ground on the mainland. While the herd may have numbered in the order of 100 000 animals in the past, it exper…
The implications of carbon dioxide and methane exchange for the heavy mitigation RCP2.6 scenario under two metrics
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with Representative Concentration Pathway RCP2.6 could limit global warming to around or below a 2 °C increase since pre-industrial times. However this scenario implies very large and rapid reductions in both carbon dioxide (CO2) and non-CO2 emissions, and suggests a need to understand available flexibility between how different greenhouse gases might be abated. There is a growing interest in developing a great…
Something smells fishy: Olfactory suspicion cues improve performance on the Moses illusion and Wason rule discovery task
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
This paper studies the contribution of both labor and non-labor income in the growth in income inequality in the United States and large European economies. The paper first shows that the capital to labor income ratio disproportionately increased among high-earnings individuals, further contributing to the growth in overall income inequality. That said, the magnitude of this effect is modest, and the predominant driver of the growth in income ine…
The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018
Social by definition: How users define social platforms and why it matters
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary “decomposition” approach that compares the behavioral and mechanical components of a policy’s total impact on the government budget to study the deadweight loss of two unemployment insurance polici…
Introduction: Essays in Honor of John E. DiNardo
The influence of threat on the efficiency of goal-directed attentional control
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming
Growth in aviation contributes more to global warming than is generally appreciated because of the mix of climate pollutants it generates. Here, we model the CO 2 and non-CO 2 effects like nitrogen oxide emissions and contrail formation to analyse aviation’s total warming footprint. Aviation contributed approximately 4% to observed human-induced global warming to date, despite being responsible for only 2.4% of global annual emissions of CO 2 . A…
Valid t -ratio Inference for IV
In the single-IV model, researchers commonly rely on t-ratio-based inference, even though the literature has quantified its potentially severe large-sample distortions. Building on Stock and Yogo (2005), we introduce the tF critical value function, leading to a standard error adjustment that is a smooth function of the first-stage F-statistic. For one-quarter of specifications in 61 AER papers, corrected standard errors are at least 49 and 136 pe…
Local Polynomial Order in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Treatment effect estimates in regression discontinuity (RD) designs are often sensitive to the choice of bandwidth and polynomial order, the two important ingredients of widely used local regression methods. While Imbens and Kalyanaraman and Calonico, Cattaneo, and Titiunik provided guidance on bandwidth, the sensitivity to polynomial order still poses a conundrum to RD practitioners. It is understood in the econometric literature that applying t…
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals
What motivates people to share contents that promote the image of the self versus the well-being of others on social media? Two studies examined how interpersonal goals, namely self-image goals and compassionate goals, influence intentions of sharing different contents on Instagram. According to research on interpersonal goals, self-image goals motivate people to maintain and demonstrate their desirable qualities to others; compassionate goals en…
Selection history contributes to suboptimal attention strategies
A “greenhouse gas balance” for aviation in line with the Paris Agreement
The effects of aviation on climate pose unique policy challenges. A large fraction of the CO 2 emissions (65%) is international and not (explicitly) included in the Paris Agreement. The interpretation of Article 4.1 on achieving a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases” is ambiguous in the context of aviation because of the substantial non‐CO 2 effects associated with the sector. For the achi…
Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Atmospheric sciences (5 works)