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International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
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We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the …
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … managed firm ; productive efficiency ; Mondragon ; shared capitalism …
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current resources (i.e. income, education and health) into subjective well-being. Our results imply that well-being efficiency … efficiency, while good institutions as proxied by the rule of law, as well as social support and freedom perceptions improve it … international well-being rankings - demonstrate that efficiency is lower among the unemployed, divorced/separated, widowed, the old …
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there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
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experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …
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, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …
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We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …
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High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
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The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with...
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