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A Generalized Neoclassical Production Function
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Essays on production function estimation
… chapter develops a new method for estimating production functions with factor-augmenting technology and assesses its economic implications. The method does not impose parametric restrictions and generalizes prior approaches that rely on the CES production function. I first extend the canonical …
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A Re-Evaluation of the Educational Production Function
… to view education as an input into the production process of individual goods or the economy as a whole. In this dissertation, I look at the process by which education itself is produced. In particular I look at the educational production process which takes place during a one-semester …
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Production function for the industrial sector of Indonesia
… of this thesis is to quantitatively analyze the production features of the Indonesian manufacturing sector. In particular, using concepts from traditional neoclassical theory of the firm, attention is focused on such aspects as returns to scale and the elasticity of factor substitution. Some …
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Essays On Econometrics With Latent Heterogeneity And Production Function Estimation
… and applies them to estimate the firm's production function for policy analysis. And there are three substantive chapters. The second chapter proposes an estimator for the partially linear model with additive time-varying grouped fixed effects. Popular empirical methods, such as …
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The Marginal Product of Capital in an Aggregate Production Function
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The Production Function in Theory and in Practice: A General Synthesis
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… unit for rubber. For this the transcendental production function is modified to suit the technical requirement of the rubber production (process. The appropriate functional form is developed in Chapter 2. Arising from the development of the theory in Chapter 2, the next three chapters discuss, …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… unit for rubber. For this the transcendental production function is modified to suit the technical requirement of the rubber production (process. The appropriate functional form is developed in Chapter 2. Arising from the development of the theory in Chapter 2, the next three chapters discuss, …
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Production function shifts in Soviet postwar industry: the mid 1970's shift
… to test for a "break" year -- the year when the production function most dramatically changed. Regression results showed that two types of industry -- that which was closely associated with military production, and industry responsible for producing consumer goods, showed little or no shift in …
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Resource Allocation in Seventh-day Adventist Elementary Schools: an Educational Production Function Study
… for schools to examine the resource allocation function more closely than ever to ensure that resources are being used most effectively. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of selected school controlled variables on student achievement in Seventh-day Adventist elementary …
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Economic optima from an experimental corn fertilizer production function, Cauca Valley, Colomibia, S.A., 1958
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1962
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Estimation of Costs and Returns on Indian Farms: Sampling Problems and Production Function Analysis
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The Production Function: Its History, Properties, and Importance in the Theory of the Firm
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What we learn in school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function
… revisits the traditional educational production function, offering alternative strategies to model how achievement and socio-emotional skills enter the relationship and how they are affected during the schooling period. The proposed analyses use a combination of estimation …
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The interaction between quantity and quality of children in the household production function: A simultaneous model
The major objective of this study was to investigate whether there is a trade-off between quantity and quality of children. A second objective was to determine how family characteristics affect quantity and quality of children.
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The influence of communications infrastructure on agricultural growth
… of communications infrastructure on agricultural production and the direction of technical change. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to estimate an inter-country production function for fifty developing countries over a fifteen year period, 1970 to 1985. The production function estimates …
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Impacts of great western development on agricultural production in the west of China
… western development on the Chinese agricultural production, I use the stochastic frontier production function. This approach is used widely in the field of economics in areas of measuring technical efficiency and policy effects in an industry with random shocks. I accompany this approach with …
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