Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prefatory Note xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. I. Context and Prologue
6. Introduction 3
7. 1. Theory and Measurement: An Essay in Honor of Zvi Griliches 15
8. II. Classic Input Measurement Issues Revisited
9. 2. Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set 31
10. 3. Where Does the Time Go? Concepts and Measurement in the American Time Use Survey 73
11. 4. Technology and the Theory of Vintage Aggregation 99
12. 5. Why Do Computers Depreciate? 121
13. III. Quality Adjustment and Price Measurement Issues: Recent Developments
14. 6. Downward Bias in the Most Important CPI Component: The Case of Rental Shelter, 1914–2003 153
15. 7. Pricing at the On-Ramp to the Internet: Price Indexes for ISPs during the 1990s 197
16. 8. Different Approaches to Estimating Hedonic Indexes 235
17. 9. Price Indexes for Microsoft’s Personal Computer Software Products 269
18. 10. International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference? 291
19. IV. Information Technology and the Acceleration of Productivity Growth
20. 11. Information Technology and the G7 Economies 325
21. 12. The Role of Semiconductor Inputs in IT Hardware Price Decline: Computers versus Communications 351
22. 13. Computer Input, Computer Networks, and Productivity 383
23. V. Measuring and Modeling Productivity, Consumption, and Diffusion
24. 14. Services Productivity in the United States: Griliches’s Services Volume Revisited 413
25. 15. A Consistent Accounting of U.S. Productivity Growth 449
26. 16. Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth 483
27. 17. What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States? 515
28. 18. Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta-Blockers 545
29. VI. EPILOGUE
30. 19. Zvi Griliches’s Contributions to Economic Measurement 573
31. Contributors 591
32. Author Index 595
33. Subject Index 601