Production Function Estimation with a "Dirty" Factor

V.V. Chari and Vladimir Smirnyagin

CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: Researchers estimate sector-specific (at NAICS 3-digit level for manufacturing plants) production functions including capital, labor, materials, and, importantly, a "dirty" factor. To accomplish this task, they bring in facility-level chemical releases data from the EPA's Toxic Releases Inventory and fuzzy-match it with the Census of Manufactures and the Annual Survey of Manufactures based on facilities’ names and addresses. Two sets of production function estimates are constructed and compared.

Keywords: SSEL; CMF; ASM; LBD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04
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