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 …

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality …. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is …

the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The … quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28 …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms’ sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …

product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

I consider a contest in which the quantity of output is rewarded and another in which the quality of output is rewarded …. The output in the quality contest plays a dual role. It counts in the quality contest but it is also converted into … . I find that when the unit cost of producing quality is sufficiently high, then treating quality and quantity as the same …