the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will … the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both groups. Graduate jobs are differentiated by quality. The output … of each graduate job-worker match depends on the worker's ability and educational achievement as well as on the quality …

We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as …

later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to … quality issues …

the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of 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 …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we … find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …