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 …

, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … universal service, and allow us to shed light on its determinants. The evidence suggests that both technology and management …

of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young …

The real business cycle literature has largely ignored the empirical question of what role technology shocks actually … play in business cycles. The observed procyclicality of total factor productivity (TFP) does not prove that technology … other reasons. I address the role of technology by investigating the dynamic interactions of inputs, TFP and two observable …

data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on student achievement, I perform a … find that a lower accountability grade decreases teacher turnover and increases joining teachers' quality. A likely channel … is that accountability pressures induce increases in principal effort at lower-graded schools, especially among high …

transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …

more accountable than others. The relationship between elite identity and political accountability is complex and non … the British Crown. Consistent with the theory, we find evidence linking this to rising accountability of the islands …