Correcting for biases when estimating production functions: An illusion of the laws of algebra?

Vol: 
13/2004
Author name: 
Felipe J
Hasan R
McCombie JSL
Year: 
2004
Month: 
November
Abstract: 

This paper argues that the true cause of the endogeneity bias that allegedly appears when estimating production functions, and which the literature has tried to deal with since the 1940s, is simply the result of omitted-variable bias due to an incorrect approximation to an accounting identity. As a result we question recent attempts to solve the problem by developing new estimators.

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