payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. Following Mengel (2018 …) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … defectors and co-operators respectively, while an index of efficiency captures the gains from cooperation. We conduct two …

activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non …-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor … across farm and non-farm production. We control for many household and production characteristics, including household fixed …

payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from …

How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the … depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this employment, and the effect is stronger in regions where the regional banks …

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 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 …