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 …

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 …

knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …