We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk … individual safety investments that reduce the risk of injury. This results in a negative association between individual injury … safety. In line with our model predictions, we find a significant positive compensating wage differential (CWD) for nonfatal …

distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to 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 …

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

, 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 …

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 …

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 …