Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later … household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … pages. It remains unfinished yet it is a masterly guide to the nuances of poverty measurement and an invaluable source for …

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

of informality of 157 countries around the world, including developing, eastern European, central Asian and high income …

Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …