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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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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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The tyranny of international index rankings

Høyland, Bjørn; Moene, Karl; Willumsen, Fredrik - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 1-14

-estimated with a method that captures this uncertainty, it becomes clear that ranking every adjacent country is a rather courageous …

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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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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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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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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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Social Welfare and Cost Recovery in Two-Sided Markets

Bolt, Wilko; Tieman, Alexander F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Using a simple model of two-sided markets, we show that, in the social optimum, platform pricing leads to an inherent cost recovery problem. This result is driven by the positive externality of participation that users on either side of the market exert on the opposite side. The contribution of...

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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; Rice Tariffs Versus Targeted Transfers in Madagascar

Dorosh, Paul A.; Coady, David; Minten, Bart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...

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Making Sen’s capability approach operational. A random scale framework

Dagsvik, John K. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

Amartya Sen has developed the so-called capability approach to meet the criticism that income alone may be insufficient as a measure of economic inequality. This is because knowledge about people’s income does not tell us what they are able to acquire with that income. For example, people with...

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