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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M. - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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Management Quality in Public Education : Superintendent Value-Added, Student Outcomes and Mechanisms
Lavy, Victor - 2017
We present evidence about the ways that school superintendents add value in Israel's primary and middle schools. Superintendents are the CEOs of a cluster of schools with powers to affect the quality of schooling, and we extend the approach used in recent literature to measure teachers' value...
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Does The Market Reward Quality? : Evidence from India
Wagner, Zachary - 2019
studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India
Das, Jishnu - 2015
We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V. - 2019
pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M. - 1999
This study analyzes the impact of major industrial relations variables on productivity within a plant that assembles large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the best of traditional industrial relations with formal...
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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition
Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999
This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The...
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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay
Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the certificate focus on seller inputs such as fast shipping, or include output measures such as consumer ratings? In theory, incorporating output measures makes the certificate more...
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