We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions …. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with different levels of observability from an external …

characteristics. We show that these conditions involve pessimism about the destination country, either in terms of short-term utility …

quality and fidelity of implementation in home visit programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not exist. In … light of this gap, this note presents a snapshot of home visit quality in seven countries in which home visits reach a … order to ensure implementation quality. …

the quality margin and correlated measurement errors. We use Mexican household budget survey data and city-level soda …

suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …

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

universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical … quality metrics. …

forms of CON programs. We examine the effect of the expiration of Pennsylvania's CON law on indicators of quality and cost … effect on our various measures of quality and cost. …

-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs … quality and variety choices may bias standard estimators. Using real exchange rates and variation in the "bite" of the … firms' quality and variety choices, this method yields consistent estimates, free of the quality and variety biases we have …

districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental evaluations of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is … house with average characteristics when test scores are one standard deviation above the mean. Controlling for selection …