A method to simultaneously estimate capital utilization rates and production functions is developed that exploits the fuel input choices of producers. Using Chilean data from 1979-1996 it is shown that the elasticity of output with respect to labor is systematically lower when accounting for...

We revisit the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis and examine whether and under what conditions this mechanism can explain the developments in wage inequality and labor share in the 1963–2016 period. Krusell, Ohanian, Ríos-Rull, and Violante (2000) show that a model with capital-skill...

This paper examines whether educational production in secondary school involves joint production among teachers across subjects. In doing so, it also provides insights into the reliability of value-added modeling. Teacher value-added to reading test scores is estimated for four different teacher...

In this paper, based on the cumulative distribution function (CDF) method (Jradiet al., 2021) for finding the optimal quantile when estimating stochastic frontier models(SFM) with normal-exponential composite error term, we derive an expression to findthe optimal quantile for the SFM with...

We investigate the technological dimension of productivity, presenting an empirical methodology based on mixture models to disentangle the labor productivity differences associated with the firm's choice of technology (BTFP) and those related to the firm's ability to exploit the adopted...

In this paper we consider a novel stochastic frontier model with multi-output multi-input production technology that accommodates non-radial inefficiency in both inputs and outputs. These measures are also observation-specific. To identify them, we use (i) a system model consisting of the...

This paper considers a model that accommodates both output and input-specific inefficiency components (inputslacks). We use a translog function to represent the underlying production technology in which the input slacksare generalized to have both deterministic (functions of exogenous variables)...