In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on … on school quality. …

cheat on quality; and "the naive" fall victim to a projection bias that all sellers behave like the bad types. OLS, sample …

This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their …

direct costs that these immigrants face in acquiring a medical license. Licensing thus leads to lower average quality of … service. However, the positive earnings effect of entry restrictions far outweighs the lower practitioner quality earnings …

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of … Design using a measure of book sales as a dependent variable and as a forcing variable (proxying for intrinsic book quality …

This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose …-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically positive relationship between training quality and …

enhances productivity and quality through mechanisms including employees becoming better motivated, more informed and paying …

quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in … negative on school returns. Better school quality has also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for … education. Our evidence suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute …