In this paper, we report the puzzling results of a study which examined IT capital investment and productivity at three of the largest IT user sites in the U.S. for the period 1970-1990: Social Security Adininistration (SSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Based on detailed IT invesunent, employment, and output data over twenty years, we found tha...

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the price of other labor-intensive se...

Title of Dissertation: ESSAYS ON DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS Amparo Palacios López, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ramón López Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics Chapter 1 shows the implications of credit and labor market imperfections on gender differences in agricultural labor productivity, especially highlighting how both imperfections negatively affe...