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continuously their performance. …
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This paper is a comparative qualitative analysis of counseling and counselors in family planning and reproductive health services in four settings: two in the United States, one in London, and one in Kenya. Accomplished counselors perform in a dual sense, carrying out a difficult task and doing...
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paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …
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We examine how idea exposure produces cognitive stimulation. Study participants were given stimulus ideas with a low or high level of originality, or with absurd content. Stimuli were exposed in conditions of face-to-face communication and with computer and paper mediation, respectively. Three...
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in wholesale electric power markets with an intention to lower procurement cost of electricity. Efficiency concerns have … competitive market. Using an experimental approach, the study compares the performance of these two complex-offer auctions … correspond to the true cost revelation. Two auctions perform similarly in terms of procurement cost and efficiency. Surprisingly …
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In this paper we analyze public administration efficiency in resource economies. After a conceptual discussion, we … decided to include a wider scope of public administration and to create a new measurement of public administration efficiency … called Index of Public Administration Efficiency (IPAE). We calculated efficiency scores and rankings based on this index …
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aid. This study focuses on country performance in a production theory context. By means of the non-parametric DEA method … resource intensity and country efficiency? We find indications of a positive relation between capital intensity and country … efficiency. We then investigate whether aid is the conclusive part of capital providing this correlation, but when linking …
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The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has … the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging and developing economies. The approach accounts for the impact … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …
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This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...
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