Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services - Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

Prefatory Note xi Acknowledgments xiii I. Context and Prologue Introduction 3(12) Ernst R. Berndt Charles R. Hulten Theory and Measurement: An Essay in Honor of Zvi Griliches 15(16) Charles R. Hulten II. Classic Input Measurement Issues Revisited Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set 31(42) Judith K. Hellerstein David Neumark Where Does the Time Go? Concepts and Measurement in the American Time Use Survey 73(26) Harley Frazis Jay Stewart Technology and the Theory of Vintage Aggregation 99(22) Michael J. Harper Why Do Computers Depreciate? 121(32) Michael J. Geske Valerie A. Ramey Matthew D. Shapiro III. Quality Adjustment and Price Measurement Issues: Recent Developments Downward Bias in the Most Important CPI Component: The Case of Rental Shelter, 1914--2003 153(44) Robert J. Gordon Todd vanGoethem Pricing at the On-Ramp to the Internet: Price Indexes for ISPs during the 1990s 197(38) Greg Stranger Shane Greenstein Different Approaches to Estimating Hedonic Indexes 235(34) Saeed Heravi Mick Silver Price Indexes for Microsoft's Personal Computer Software Products 269(22) Jaison R. Abel Ernst R. Berndt Alan G. White International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference? 291(34) Sean M. Dougherty Robert Inklaar Robert H. McGuckin Bart van Ark IV. Information Technology and the Acceleration of Productivity Growth Information Technology and the G7 Economies 325(26) Dale W. Jorgenson The Role of Semiconductor Inputs in IT Hardware Price Decline: Computers versus Communications 351(32) Ana Aizcorbe Kenneth Flamm Anjum Khurshid Computer Input, Computer Networks, and Productivity 383(30) B. K. Atrostic Sang Nguyen V. Measuring and Modeling Productivity, Consumption, and Diffusion Services Productivity in the United States: Griliches's Services Volume Revisited 413(36) Barry P. Bosworth Jack E. Triplett A Consistent Accounting of U.S. Productivity Growth 449(34) Eric J. Bartelsman J. Joseph Beaulieu Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth 483(32) Robert C. Feenstra Marshall B. Reinsdorf What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States? 515(30) Orazio Attanasio Erich Battistin Hidehiko Ichimura Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta-Blockers 545(28) Jonathan Skinner Douglas Staiger VI. Epilogue Zvi Griliches's Contributions to Economic Measurement 573(18) Jack E. Triplett Contributors 591(4) Author Index 595(6) Subject Index 601