Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health. The research in Measuring and Modeling Health...

Intro -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction - Ana Aizcorbe, Colin Baker, Ernst R. Berndt, and David M. Cutler -- I. Methodological Issues in Measuring Health Care Costs and Outcomes -- 1. Measuring Health Services in the National Accounts: An International Perspective - Paul Schreyer and...

The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches’s entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique...