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This study examines the impacts of political competition on eco-efficiency. We first develop a theoretical model in … of political competition is found to be negatively correlated with eco-efficiency. For the empirical analysis, we use a … political competition reducing eco-efficiency, as predicted in the theoretical model. Our findings are robust to alternative …
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Competition is widely used to increase effort and performance. However, in many domains, performance not only depends … on individual effort but also on cooperation between agents. In such cases, competition may decrease individual … performance because it may weaken the cooperation between agents as the chance of winning a competition decreases with the success …
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Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity are controlled for, it is evident that such...
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