We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are … differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training … quality is tailored to the individual need, and a uniform quality system being politically determined. The former yields a …

expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between … programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and conduct a … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …

contributions are strongly correlated with program outcomes but not with other commonly used quality measures. Programs contribute …

investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted measures of human capital can explain within-country income differences. We …