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 …

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 …

efficiency improving and poverty alleviating policy reform in a canonical labor market setting. At its core, an EGS provides an … who cares only about efficiency can be less efficient than the outcome with a planner whose social welfare function also …

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 …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

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 …

, 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 …

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …