We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … generalized true random-effects model, we distinguish between persistent and transient inefficiencies on subnational efficiency to … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some …

agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis …, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to get reliable estimates of technical efficiency at the firm level in a … frontiers, as well as to the presence of outliers. The obtained efficiency scores are analyzed in a second stage applying a …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …. -- bootstrap ; nonparametric kernel ; technical efficiency …

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 …