Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

. But financial incentives such as conditional cash transfers are also increasingly proposed and tested to discourage such … the theoretical justification for using such incentives, distinguishing between the price, income effects, and the nudge … effects. The growing literature about the effectiveness of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors is reviewed …