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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 …
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This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
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Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness. Most social sciences thus frequently describe some...
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current resources (i.e. income, education and health) into subjective well-being. Our results imply that well-being efficiency … efficiency, while good institutions as proxied by the rule of law, as well as social support and freedom perceptions improve it … international well-being rankings - demonstrate that efficiency is lower among the unemployed, divorced/separated, widowed, the old …
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We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...
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A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
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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 …
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, 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 …
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We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …
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