past 60 years, there have been many important developments in the RTA literature, both in terms of better methods to … quantify their effects, and also in terms of more and higher quality data. The objective of this paper is to trace the … evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and …

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We …

the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …

. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the canonical spatial equilibrium framework understates spatial quality …-of-life differentials, the urban quality-of-life premium and the value of local non-marketed goods. Unlike the canonical spatial equilibrium … improve quality of life. …

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 …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality. …

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

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 …