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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards : Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?

Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2013

. Evidence suggests that the stricter quality standards increased the transaction price of used condominiums by 15% in the Tokyo …

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Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards : Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2022

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...

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Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labor

Ali, Umair; Herbst, Chris M.; Makridis, Christos - 2022

Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the child care market because of the presence of information frictions between parents and providers. However, regulations can also have unintended consequences for the quantity and quality of services provided. In this paper, we merge new data...

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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew - 2013

allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a … overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy …

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The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Heywood, John S. - 2013

This field experiment examines output quantity and quality for workers in a data input business. We observe two sets of workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can...

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Vu, Nam - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using … thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of … sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and level of seller stability, are important factors for explaining price …

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...

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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries - the quality-upgrading mechanism - and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only...

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The 'Gravity' of Quality : Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality...

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