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How robust are estimated country welfare? : an investigation of welfare ranking, based on indices calculated using random weights.

Olsson, Michael - 2010

Sweden is ranked at 7th place. With random weights Sweden is ranked as high as fifth place in 5.1 per cent of the cases, and …

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Building composite indicators with unweighted-TOPSIS

Liem, Vicente; Pérez-Gladish, Blanca - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 70 (2023) 5, pp. 1871-1880

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A Ranking of the Most Anti-Science Countries

McGee, Robert W. - 2019

This paper presents the results of a study of opinion on attitude toward whether the world is better off or worse off because of science and technology. The most recent wave of World Values Survey data was used. Countries were ranked by mean score. The sample size was gathered in 60 countries...

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Measuring corporate gender diversity and inclusion with UW-TOPSIS and linguistic intervals

Liern, Vicente; Pérez-Gladish, Blanca - In: Operational Research Methods in Business, Finance and …, (pp. 81-97). 2023

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Rank dependent weighted average utility models for decision making under ignorance or objective ambiguity

Gravel, Nicholas; Marchant, Thierry - 2022

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Performance ranks, conformity, and cooperation : evidence from a sweater factory

Ashraf, Anik - 2022

Performance ranks introduce a trade-off for workers. They have to choose between signaling high productivity or signaling social compatibility to peers. Using a long-term experiment at a sweater factory, this paper disentangles the incentives underlying performance ranks. Treated workers receive...

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Effects of peers and rank on cognition, preferences, and personality

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...

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Can public rankings improve school performance? : evidence from a nationwide reform in Tanzania

Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac M.; Zeitlin, Andrew - 2019

In 2013, Tanzania introduced "Big Results Now in Education", a low-stakes accountability program that published both nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify the impacts of the reform using a...

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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment

Ashraf, Anik - 2019

Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such … ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate … status associated with ranking through a randomized experiment at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. Treated workers receive …

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Evaluation of the suggestions system performance using DEA, the case of Esfahan's Steel Company

Jafarpour, Ehsan; Shafei, Reza; Sadeghani, Mahnaz; … - In: International journal of productivity and quality … 15 (2015) 1, pp. 20-35

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