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Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals : Evidence from Australia
Wang, Jian - 2007
Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main...
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Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource : The Autarky Case
Schiff, Maurice - 2020
" congestion (LC) – where MC > AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and … "super" (SC) congestion – where AC is backward-bending and MC < 0. Using a general equilibrium model, I derive the open …
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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets
He, Yinghua - 2019
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases … costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs reduce congestion by discouraging applicants from applying to certain … experimental and structural estimates show that a (low) application cost effectively reduces congestion without harming match …
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Labour Supply and Commuting
Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2010
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of …
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The Measurement of Child Costs : A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021
A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment...
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Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency : A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency
Hazarika, Gautam; Khraiche, Maroula; Kutlu, Levent - 2023
This study applies a panel data stochastic frontier analysis to country data towards examining the effect of gender equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency is improved by a widening of women's labor market...
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity : Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat - 2019
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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