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Quality Adjusted Cost Functions for Child Care Centers

Mocan, H. Naci - 1995

Using a newly compiled data set, this paper estimates multi- product translog cost functions for 399 child care centers from California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Quality of child care is controlled by a quality index, which has been shown to be positively related to child...

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Trade Liberalization, Quality, and Export Prices

Fan, Haichao - 2014

This paper presents theory and evidence from highly disaggregated Chinese data that tariff reductions induce a country … raise its export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in …

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Price and Quality Dispersion in an Offshoring Market : Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services

Byrne, David - 2013

. The theory demonstrates how to use the observed price dynamics to adjust prices for unobserved quality differences across …This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price … (frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using uniquely detailed transaction- level data from the semiconductor industry …

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The Determinants of Quality Specialization

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2016

A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (2011) formalize the Linder hypothesis that home demand...

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Factor endowment and market size in EU-CEE trade : would human capital change the actual quality trade patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries

Lee, Jong-Wha - 1997

We investigate the determinants of educational quality in a panel data set that includes" output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs" and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally" comparable test...

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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...

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Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian-Allen Conjecture

Hummels, David - 2002

We model demand for quality differentiated goods to derive a relationship between trade costs and the quality composition of trade. Detailed data on traded goods' prices, quantities and shipping costs for many importers and exporters are used to test these predictions. These data provide a...

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Reservation Prices : An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations

DeCicca, Philip - 2014

The special legal status of Indian tribes in the U.S. means that state excise taxes are not necessarily collected on cigarette purchases on Indian reservations. We focus on two under-studied but basic empirical economic questions this raises. Using novel data from New York surveys that asked...

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Exporting and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Atkin, David - 2014

We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 16-26 percent higher profits and exhibit...

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