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Agee, Mark D. Atkinson, Scott E. Crocker, Thomas D. |
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On the Technical Efficiency of Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Child Outcome Production Functions Working Paper, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, November 2, 2005. Also: http://business.uwyo.edu/ECONFIN/Papers/ChildHealth.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Asthma; Child Health; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Disability; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geographical Variation; Head Start; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Models; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Teachers/Faculty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many production activities generate undesirable outputs in conjunction with the desirable outputs. We estimate a multiple-input, multiple-output directional distance function to analyze the relationship between parental home, school, and environmental inputs and children's cognitive and behavioral development. A household directional distance function is estimated using a panel of 206 families from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Sample for the years 1988 to 1990 using Hausman and Taylor's (1981) within-groups instrumental variables technique. We then transform our fitted model to compute marginal effects of any input on any output, and to compute technical inefficiencies of households, defined as the increase (decrease) in good (bad) outputs that sample families could attain from a given level of inputs if they were operating on the technological frontier. Our estimates suggest the presence of significant inefficiency (approaching 20 percent) among sample families? production (reduction) of good (bad) outputs. Given these inefficiencies, public provision of education services for young children such as Head Start or other health and welfare programs that target improvements in children's home environment may be the most effective means of improving child outcomes. |
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Agee, Mark D., Scott E. Atkinson and Thomas D. Crocker. "On the Technical Efficiency of Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Child Outcome Production Functions." Working Paper, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, November 2, 2005. |