We study the impact on the skill premium of increases in the quality of goods consumed by households ("trading up …"). Our empirical work shows that high- quality goods are more intensive in skilled labor than low-quality goods and that … household spending on high-quality goods rises with income. We propose a model consistent with these facts. This model accounts …

the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment of report-card measures often biases comparisons across …

large effects on the quality of care that patients receive, and that all of these effects persist for several years. Our … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

outcomes, proximity, and even peer quality. Parents also value schools that reduce crime and increase formal labor market …

on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the …

purchase used assets which are less durable than new assets and adopt less durable, low quality assets, that are otherwise … fraction in less durable, low quality assets. There is a critical distinction between the pledgeability and durability of …

districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores …. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers and students across neighborhoods. We develop and apply multiple methods … for identifying parental valuation of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …

This paper uses a RCT to estimate the effectiveness of guided instruction methods as implemented in under … document that quality of teacher-student interactions is positively correlated with the performance of low income students …

Low-quality patents are of considerable concern to businesses operating in patent-dense markets. There are two pathways … by which low-quality patents may be issued: the patent office may apply systematically a standard that is too lenient …