education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …

country, as well as welfare differences across countries. The result holds regardless of the type of production technology and … productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need to be …

made available at an online website. This study examines to what extent such information affected job coaches' ability to … there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

efficiency, but less so than if information transmission is undisturbed. … 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 …

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