biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a … relatively high publicity reaction. A potential explanation for this latter finding is that these groups have low quality initial …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that … negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of …

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 …

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries’ of local legislators …

We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths … training courses is based on public bidding processes that assign standardized scores to multiple proxies for quality. Second … attending high-quality training courses have higher average and marginal treatment impacts. External validity was assessed by …

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 …

-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also … constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate whether this social aspect of organizations has an important benefit … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …