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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
. -- Higher education ; university choice ; college admission ; conditional logit …This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Higher prices, higher quality? : evidence from German nursing homes
Herr, Annika; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2016
Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between prices and quality of 7,400 German nursing homes controlling for income, nursing home density, demographics, labour market characteristics, and infrastructure at the regional level. Method: We use a cross section of public quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412225
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Does quality disclosure improve quality? : responses to the introduction of nursing home report cards in Germany
Herr, Annika; Nguyen, Thu-Van; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2015
Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481076
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The quality of insurance intermediary services : an analysis of conduct and performance in the German market of insurance intermediation
Eckardt, Martina - 2006
Based on a sample of 946 German insurance intermediaries, the factors that affect the quality of the information services provided by them are studied using OLS-estimations. Applying a search theoretical approach, we analyze the impact of supply and demand side variables on service quality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883970
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Does the product quality hypothesis hold true? : service quality differences between independent and exclusive insurance agents
Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2007
Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886027
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Mandatory Quality Disclosure and Quality Supply : Evidence from German Hospitals
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Ozbugday, Fatih Cemil - 2012
Using a newly constructed dataset on German hospitals, which includes 24 process and outcome indicators of clinical quality, we test whether quality has increased in various clinical areas since the introduction of mandatory quality reports and the online publication of part of the collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166252
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Conditions and consequences of education: Microeconometric analyses
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara - 2019
This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. It was completed in March 2019 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157627
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Conditions and consequences of education : microeconometric analyses
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara - 2019
This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. It was completed in March 2019 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054525
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MeinProf.de und die Qualität der Lehre
Beckmann, Klaus; Schneider, Andrea - 2009
This paper compares student evaluation of teaching on the web site MeinProf.de to the standard evaluation procedures at German universities. While MeinProf offers the advantage of a broad, publicly available database, a number of theoretical and econometric problems emerge. Many of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806751
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Herausforderungen der Flüchtlingskrise für Hochschulen
Dilger, Alexander - 2016
Flucht und Migration sind alte und weltweite Phänomene. Letztes Jahr hat jedoch die Zahl der Flüchtlinge nach Europa und insbesondere Deutschland stark zugenommen, während die deutsche Bundeskanzlerin die bis dahin geltenden europäischen und deutschen Regeln außer Kraft setzte. Dies stellt...
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