This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to … regressed on several universities' research quality indicators computed from different bibliometric databases (ISI …-Thompson, Scopus-Elsevier and Google Scholar) using fixed effects-gravity models. Our estimates suggest that improving research quality …

The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

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 … industries with more scope for quality differentiation, as measured by the advertising and Ramp;D intensity of U.S. industries …

effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic … environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality of prescribing …

enhances productivity and quality through mechanisms including employees becoming better motivated, more informed and paying …

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries - the quality … heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export … market, they produce higher-quality goods to appeal to richer Northern consumers, and they pay high wages to attract and …

Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many … stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or as a response to unexpectedly low job quality (Jovanovic, 1979). This … job search behavior. Results from panel estimations of job quits and job satisfaction illustrate that the labor market is …

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using … stickiness and price dispersion. We demonstrate that calculations of price inflation require conditioning not only on CPU quality …

This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor … stricter quality standards created a quasi-rent for certified architects and owners of condominiums at a cost to consumers …. Evidence suggests that the stricter quality standards increased the transaction price of used condominiums by 15% in the Tokyo …