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  1. What makes a program good?
    evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries
    Author: Bassi, Marina; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio
    Published: January 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs'... more

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    Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and conduct a novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure, faculty, link with productive sector, costs and funding, and practices on student admission and institutional governance. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil and Ecuador and match it to survey data. Using machine learning methods, we select the quality determinants that predict outcomes at the program and student levels. Estimates indicate that some quality determinants may favor academic and labor market outcomes while others may hinder them. Two practices predict improvements in all labor market outcomes in Brazil and Ecuador-teaching numerical competencies and providing job market information-and one practice-teaching numerical competencies-additionally predicts improvements in labor market outcomes for all survey countries. Since quality determinants account for 20-40 percent of the explained variation in student-level outcomes, quality determinants might have a role shrinking program quality gaps. Findings have implications for the design and replication of high-quality SCPs, their regulation, and the development of information systems.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10255 (2023)
    Subjects: higher education; short-cycle degrees; quality
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  2. Quantifying consumer taste in trade
    evidence from the food industry
    Author: Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  KU Leuven, Department of Economics, Leuven

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    Series: Discussion paper series / [KU Leuven, Department of Economics] ; DPS23, 02 (January 2023)
    Subjects: consumer taste; quality; productivity; exports; firm-product; food
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  3. The contribution of short-cycle programs to student outcomes
    evidence from Colombia
    Author: Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Melguizo, Tatiana; Sánchez, Angélica
    Published: February 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education enrollment in the world and can play a key role enhancing workforce skills. In this paper, we estimate the program-level... more

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    Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education enrollment in the world and can play a key role enhancing workforce skills. In this paper, we estimate the program-level contribution of SCPs to student academic and labor market outcomes, and study how and why these contributions vary across programs. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control for a rich set of student, peer, and local choice set characteristics. We find that program-level contributions account for about 60-70 percent of the variation in student-level graduation and labor market outcomes. Our estimates show that programs vary greatly in their contributions, across and especially within fields of study. Moreover, the estimated contributions are strongly correlated with program outcomes but not with other commonly used quality measures. Programs contribute more to formal employment and wages when they are longer, have been provided for a longer time, are taught by more specialized institutions, and are offered in larger cities.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10262 (2023)
    Subjects: short-cycle programs; value added; quality; higher education
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  4. Quantifying consumer taste in trade
    evidence from the food industry
    Author: Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics And Business, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven, Belgium

    This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer... more

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    This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports, consumer taste is an important and separate demand determinant to explain export revenues. Depending on the product, taste for a product explains between 4-30% of export revenues. Thus, any taste shock due to events such as pandemics or climate change, may induce substantial changes in export profitability of firms.

     
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    Series: LICOS discussion paper series ; 431 (2023)
    Subjects: consumer taste; quality; productivity; exports; firm-product; food
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  5. Quantifying consumer taste in trade
    evidence from the food industry
    Author: Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke
    Published: January 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer... more

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    This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and perform a decomposition of export revenues of firm-products to establish the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports, consumer taste is an important and separate demand determinant to explain export revenues. Depending on the product, taste for a product explains between 4-30% of export revenues. Thus, any taste shock due to events such as pandemics or climate change, may induce substantial changes in export profitability of firms.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10234 (2023)
    Subjects: consumer taste; quality; productivity; exports; firm-product; food
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 48 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. Managing remote work quality
    evidence from management systems standards auditing
    Author: Palmarozzo, Ashley; Toffel, Michael W.
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  [Harvard Business School], [Boston, MA]

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    Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School ; 24, 002
    Subjects: remote work; quality; audits; inspections; standards
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  7. Demand and supply side linkages in exporting multiproduct firms
    Author: Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [München]

    Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This... more

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    Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the cannibalization effect. On the supply side, joint inputs can create a dependency of one product's marginal costs on the output of other products. The existence of these linkages is important for how firms respond to shocks and has major implications for several performance measures, such as productivity and markups. This paper provides first empirical evidence for the existence of cannibalization linkages in presence of supply linkages, which is implied evidence for market power.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; no. 456 (November 17, 2023)
    Subjects: Multiproduct Örms; cannibalization effect; demand linkages; supply linkages; anti-dumping tariffs; quality; mark-ups
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  8. Inteligencia artificial aplicada al control de calidad en la producción de billetes
    Author: López González, Adrián
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Banco de España, Madrid

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    Series: Documentos ocasionales / Banco de España ; no. 2303
    Subjects: artificial intelligence; banknotes; R&D; production; quality; quality control
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  9. Anti-dumping and product quality
    Author: Caselli, Mauro; Huang, Jiuli; Tomasi, Chiara; Zhu, Min
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  University of Nottingham, GEP, [Nottingham]

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    Series: Array ; research paper 2023, 08
    Subjects: antidumping; China; trade; quality; imported inputs
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  10. Navigating trade policy shocks
    how firms reallocate exports in third markets
    Author: Meng, Ning; Wang, Feicheng
    Published: November 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    This paper explores an under-researched margin of firms' export adjustments in response to negative trade policy shocks: export reallocation across markets. Using detailed Chinese customs data spanning from 2000 to 2015 and a... more

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    This paper explores an under-researched margin of firms' export adjustments in response to negative trade policy shocks: export reallocation across markets. Using detailed Chinese customs data spanning from 2000 to 2015 and a difference-in-differences approach, we compare export dynamics between multi-destination exporters that were subject to antidumping (AD) duties and those that were not affected. Our empirical results show that, on average, AD duties reduced firms' entry into new markets and increased their exit from existing markets. These effects were less pronounced for exports to high-income destinations and high-quality products. Continuing exporters, however, raised their exports to non-AD markets after being affected by AD duties and this effect was stronger for high-income destination exports. Further analysis underscores the role of quality upgrading in explaining the trade-promoting effect of AD duties in third countries. Our findings reconcile the seemingly contradictory trade diversion and tariff echoing effects of AD duties documented in earlier studies.

     
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    Edition: This version: October 2023
    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10752 (2023)
    Subjects: antidumping; multi-destination firms; within-firm adjustment; quality
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  11. "Quick and dirty" deregulation and expansion of national higher education
    be careful of what you ask for
    Author: Chong, Alberto; Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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    Series: Working paper / International Center for Public Policy ; 23, 17 (August 2023)
    Subjects: universities; education; quality; expansion; national; Peru
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  12. Multifactor Funds vs. Homemade Factor Diversification Strategies
    Author: Estrada, Javier
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  SSRN, [S.l.]

    Multifactor funds, which offer factor diversification neatly packaged in one product, have a rather short but poor track record; these funds have largely underperformed widely-available broad market funds. This article evaluates the performance of... more

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    Multifactor funds, which offer factor diversification neatly packaged in one product, have a rather short but poor track record; these funds have largely underperformed widely-available broad market funds. This article evaluates the performance of multifactor funds relative to two homemade factor diversification strategies, which simply combine single-factor funds in a portfolio. The results here, which reinforce previously-reported poor results, show that multifactor funds largely underperformed both homemade strategies in terms of return, risk, risk-adjusted return, and downside protection

     
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    Series: IESE Business School Working Paper ; No. 4487611
    Subjects: Factor investing; multifactor funds; value; size; quality; momentum; low vol
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  13. Managing Remote Work Quality
    Evidence from Management Systems Standards Auditing
    Author: Palmarozzo, Ashley; Toffel, Michael W.
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  SSRN, [S.l.]

    Remote work has become more common, providing operational flexibility and productivity benefits, but questions remain about whether and how it affects quality. This study investigates the quality effects of remote work in a diagnostic service context... more

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    Remote work has become more common, providing operational flexibility and productivity benefits, but questions remain about whether and how it affects quality. This study investigates the quality effects of remote work in a diagnostic service context in which remote work separates workers from the subject of their work: remotely auditing sites’ compliance with management system standards. We analyze nearly 30,000 audits conducted in-person or remotely across thousands of sites around the world by auditors of one global company during 2019–2021, when remote auditing accelerated due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions. We theorize that remote audits will be of lower quality (less comprehensive) than in-person audits because remote auditors face greater difficulties (a) obtaining information critical to detecting violations and (b) coordinating and exchanging information with fellow auditors. We find evidence of these theorized mechanisms: remote audits report fewer violations and quality problems are especially pronounced for (a) standards clauses in which auditors assess compliance via direct observation as opposed to document review and (b) audits conducted by multi-auditor teams. We also find the quality problems of remote audits partially mitigated when the auditors had previously conducted in-person audits of the site and when auditors’ prior experience was more concentrated on the standard being audited. Understanding mechanisms by which remote work can erode quality and revealing attributes that exacerbate or attenuate such quality concerns can help companies and regulatory agencies better manage remote work

     
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    Series: Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper ; No. 24-002
    Subjects: remote work; quality; audits; inspections; standards
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