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Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education / Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, Matthew P. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraumeni, Barbara M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14099.
- NBER working paper series no. w14099
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
- Summary:
- In a previous paper, the authors took the first step in their research on measuring the education function of government by estimating real output measures (Fraumeni, et. al. 2004). In this paper, chain-type Fisher quantity indexes for those output measures are calculated to be more consistent with Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) methodology and the real output measures presented in the previous paper are refined. In addition, and more importantly, implicit price deflators are presented to give a more complete picture. Alternative price and real output measures are compared; it is clear that methodology choice matters. Price change is always greater than quantity change for the periods given; however, price changes are overstated to the extent quality changes are not captured in the quantity indexes. Quality-adjustments continue to be the most challenging aspect of decomposing nominal expenditures for government-provided education into price and quantity components.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2008.
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