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When is a life worth living? : a dynastic efficiency criterion for fertility decisions
Collignon, Pierre-Edouard - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698492
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Risk as impediment to privatization? : the role of collective fields in extended agricultural households
Delpierre, Matthieu; Guirkinger, Catherine; Platteau, … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672235
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Efficiency, and economies of scale and scope in Japanese agricultural cooperatives
Harimaya, Kozo; Kagitani, Koichi - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 11 (2022), pp. 1-19
-level federations and use a stochastic meta-frontier cost function model, which enables the decomposition of meta-frontier efficiency … into two components: technical efficiency and technology gap ratios. The operational differences between JAs in urban and … rural areas are investigated by comparing their efficiency and economies of scale and scope. The main results are summarized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459615
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Dynamic Efficiency in the Gifts Economy
O'Connell, Stephen A.; Zeldes, Stephen P. - 2021
In the standard analysis of an overlapping generations economy with gifts from children to parents, each generation takes the actions of all other generations as given. The resulting "simultaneous moves" equilibrium is dynamically inefficient. In reality, however, parents precede children in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232439
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Dynamic Efficiency in the Gifts Economy
O'Connell, Stephen A. - 1993
In the standard analysis of an overlapping generations economy with gifts from children to parents, each generation takes the actions of all other generations as given. The resulting "simultaneous moves" equilibrium is dynamically inefficient. In reality, however, parents precede children in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474640
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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution
Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017
, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …. We test whether a democratic context influences the social preferences of decision makers in terms of efficiency … distribution sometime conflict, efficiency is no higher with democratic leaders, although payoffs are more equal. We interpret our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753528
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442013
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444043
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Productive inefficiency in dairy farming and cooperation between spouses : evidence from Senegal
Hoel, Jessica B.; Hidrobo, Melissa; Bernard, Tanguy; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110275
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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution
Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751061