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 …

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 …