, we assess the potential of three types of quality signaling to increase demand for high-quality solar lamps. We find no … remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal … that the effective quality signals in our setting stimulate demand for low-quality products by creating product …

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that … differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the … patients having better private information about quality. We incorporate our estimates into a structural model of demand that …

comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …

Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from … providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual … variation in the criteria for Medicare's Quality Incentive Program in dialysis to distinguish strategic patient dropping from …