D W Jorgenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 954561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D W Jorgenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | D W |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorgenson |
| SIGNATURE | JORGENSON D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1346-7940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Designing a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts
The key elements of a new architecture for the U.S. national accounts have been developed in a prototype system constructed by Dale W. Jorgenson and J. Steven Landefeld, director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce. As the U.S. economy emerges from the most severe contraction since the Second World War, the focus of policy will shift toward enhancing the economy’s potential for growth. A second motivation for the…
A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence
It is widely recognized that information technology was critical to the dramatic acceleration of U.S. labor productivity growth in the mid 1990s. This paper traces the evolution of productivity estimates to document how and when this perception emerged. Early studies concluded that information technology was relatively unimportant. Only after the massive information technology investment boom of the late 1990s did this investment and underlying p…
Information Technology and the U.S. Economy
The resurgence of the American economy since 1995 has outrun all but the most optimistic expectations. Economic forecasting models have been seriously off track and growth projections have been revised to reflect a more sanguine outlook only recently. It is not surprising that the unusual combination of more rapid growth and slower inflation in the 1990's has touched off a strenuous debate among economists about whether improvements in America's …
Raising the Speed Limit: U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age
This paper examines the underpinnings of the successful performance of the US economy in the late 1990s. Relative to the early 1990s, output growth has accelerated by nearly two percentage points. We attribute this to rapid capital accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth, driven by information technology, is the most remarkable feature of the US growth resurgen…
Econometrics: Econometric Modeling of Producer Behavior
New methodology for econometricians, based on the dual formulation of the theory of production in terms of prices.The objectives of econometric modeling of producer behavior are to determine the nature of substitution among inputs and outputs and of differences in technology, as well as the role of economies of scale in production. Recent advances in methodology, based on the dual formulation of the theory of production in terms of prices, have e…
Special Section on Consumer Price Research: Introduction
Consumer Prices, the Consumer Price Index, and the Cost of Living
After presenting major findings and recommendations, the CPI Commission reiterates the estimate of a 1.1 percentage point per annum upward bias. It rejects the contention that the BLS already makes substantial corrections for quality change; that quality improvements and new products accrue only to the rich; and that procedures to make more extensive quality adjustments, valuations of new products, and adjustments for commodity and outlet substit…
Did We Lose the War on Poverty
Official U.S. poverty statistics based on household income imply that the proportion of the U.S. population below the poverty level reached a minimum in 1973, giving rise to the widespread impression that the elimination of poverty is impossible. By contrast, poverty estimates based on household consumption have fallen through 1989 and imply that the war on poverty was a success. This paper recommends replacing income by consumption in official e…
Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital
Journal Article Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital Get access Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital. By Dale Jorgenson and KUN-YOUNG YUN. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xvi+183. £20.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828593 0). Don Fullerton Don Fullerton Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 987–989, https://doi.org/10…
Tax reform and the cost of capital
Environmental Regulation and U.S. Economic Growth
In this article we quantify the costs of pollution controls by reporting the results of simulations of the growth of the U.S. economy with and without regulation. For this purpose, we have constructed a detailed model of the economy that includes the determinants of long-term growth. We have also analyzed the interaction between industries in order to capture the full repercussions of environmental regulations. However, we have not attempted to a…
Tax Reform and U.S. Economic Growth
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on U.S. economic growth. We first calculate effective tax rates on income from capital employed in corporate, noncorporate, and household sectors. We then project the future growth of the U.S. economy with and without the 1986 tax reform. We find that much of the potential gain in welfare was dissipated through failure to index the income tax base for inflation. The most promising…
Productivity and US Economic Growth
Journal Article Productivity and US Economic Growth Get access Productivity and US Economic Growth. By D. W. JORGENSON, F. M. GOLLOP and B. FRAUMENI. (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989. Pp. 566. Dfl. 135.00 hardback. ISBN o 444 70353 5.) Sean Holly Sean Holly London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 March 1990, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Investment in Education
The purpose of this paper is to present new measures of the benefits from education. These measures are based on the incremental effect on human wealth of participation in formal schooling. We define human wealth as the sum of lifetime labor incomes for all individuals in the U.S. population. These incomes include the value of time spent working and the value of nonmarket labor activities, which are defined to include parenting and the enjoyment …
Two-Stage Budgeting and Exact Aggregation
This paper presents an econometric model of demand for energy based on two-stage budgeting. The model provides own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for energy and nonenergy commodities for the United States. These elasticities are estimated separately for households classified by family size, age of head, region, race, and urban versus rural residence. Price elasticities are presented conditional on total energy expenditure and total …
Productivity and Postwar U.S. Economic Growth
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the sources of postwar U.S. economic growth. The findings presented here allocate more than three-fourths of U.S. economic growth during the period 1948-1979 to growth of capital and labor inputs and less than one-fourth to productivity growth. To provide additional insight into the sources of U.S. economic growth, this paper then analyzes the sources of growth for individual industrial sectors. The final o…
Aggregate Consumer Behavior and Household Equivalence Scales
This article presents estimates of household equivalence scales, broken down by demographic characteristics, of U.S. households. Separate estimates are given by family size, age of head, region, race, and urban versus rural residence. Commodity-specific scales are presented for five separate commodity groups—energy, food, consumer goods, capital services, and other services. The estimates are obtained from an econometric model of aggregate consum…
Taxation and technical change
U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison
Journal Article U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison Get access Dale W. Jorgenson, Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mieko Nishimizu Mieko Nishimizu Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 707–726, https://doi.org/10…
Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy
Journal Article Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy Get access Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy. Edited by D. W. Jorgenson. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., Ltd., 1975. Pp. xviii + 254. $27.95.) K. J. Wigley K. J. Wigley Civil Service College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 343, 1 September 1976, Pages 647–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230827 P…
Measuring Performance in the Private Economy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1950–1973
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
Transcendental Logarithmic Production Frontiers
Focuses on additive and homogeneous production possibility frontiers that have played an important role in formulating statistical tests of the theory of production. Characterization of the class of production possibility frontiers that are homogenous and additive; Representation of the production possibility frontier; Statistical tests of the theory of production. (Из Ebsco)
Efficient Estimation of Simultaneous Equations by Instrumental Variables
Issues in the Development of the Neoclassical Theory of Investment Behavior
Optimal Capital Accumulation and Corporate Investment Behavior
The Development of a Dual Economy
U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison
Journal Article U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison Get access Dale W. Jorgenson, Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mieko Nishimizu Mieko Nishimizu Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 707–726, https://doi.org/10…
Productivity and US Economic Growth
Journal Article Productivity and US Economic Growth Get access Productivity and US Economic Growth. By D. W. JORGENSON, F. M. GOLLOP and B. FRAUMENI. (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989. Pp. 566. Dfl. 135.00 hardback. ISBN o 444 70353 5.) Sean Holly Sean Holly London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 March 1990, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Investment in Education
The purpose of this paper is to present new measures of the benefits from education. These measures are based on the incremental effect on human wealth of participation in formal schooling. We define human wealth as the sum of lifetime labor incomes for all individuals in the U.S. population. These incomes include the value of time spent working and the value of nonmarket labor activities, which are defined to include parenting and the enjoyment …
The Embodiment Hypothesis
Did We Lose the War on Poverty
Official U.S. poverty statistics based on household income imply that the proportion of the U.S. population below the poverty level reached a minimum in 1973, giving rise to the widespread impression that the elimination of poverty is impossible. By contrast, poverty estimates based on household consumption have fallen through 1989 and imply that the war on poverty was a success. This paper recommends replacing income by consumption in official e…
Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital
Journal Article Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital Get access Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital. By Dale Jorgenson and KUN-YOUNG YUN. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xvi+183. £20.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828593 0). Don Fullerton Don Fullerton Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 987–989, https://doi.org/10…
Tax Reform and U.S. Economic Growth
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on U.S. economic growth. We first calculate effective tax rates on income from capital employed in corporate, noncorporate, and household sectors. We then project the future growth of the U.S. economy with and without the 1986 tax reform. We find that much of the potential gain in welfare was dissipated through failure to index the income tax base for inflation. The most promising…
Optimal Capital Accumulation and Corporate Investment Behavior
On Stability in the Sense of Harrod
At the outset it should be noted that there is no universal agreement on the definition of for systems involving growth. There are at least two different notions of in Harrod's presentation. (1) Instability means departure from the line of warranted advance, i.e., from a particular time-path of output;3 (2) Instability means that the actual rate of growth departs from the warranted rate; the latter is the definition implied in the passage quoted …
On Stability in the Sense of Harrod
At the outset it should be noted that there is no universal agreement on the definition of for systems involving growth. There are at least two different notions of in Harrod's presentation. (1) Instability means departure from the line of warranted advance, i.e., from a particular time-path of output;3 (2) Instability means that the actual rate of growth departs from the warranted rate; the latter is the definition implied in the passage quoted …
Capital in Manufacturing and Mining: Its Formation and Financing . Daniel Creamer , Sergei P. Dobrovolsky , Israel Borenstein
The Development of a Dual Economy
A Time Series Analysis of Interindustry Demands
A Résumé of Harmonic Dualism
Journal Article A RÉSUMÉ OF HARMONIC DUALISM Get access DALE JORGENSON DALE JORGENSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 1963, Pages 31–42, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/44.1.31 Published: 01 January 1963
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity
The Embodiment Hypothesis
The Explanation of Productivity Change
D. W. Jorgenson, Z. Griliches; The Explanation of Productivity Change1, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3, 1 July 1967, Pages 249–283, htt
The Time Structure of Investment Behavior in United States Manufacturing, 1947-1960
Dale W. Jorgenson, James A. Stephenson, The Time Structure of Investment Behavior in United States Manufacturing, 1947-1960, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1967), pp. 16-27
Optimal Capital Accumulation and Corporate Investment Behavior
Issues in the Development of the Neoclassical Theory of Investment Behavior
Efficient Estimation of Simultaneous Equations by Instrumental Variables
Transcendental Logarithmic Production Frontiers
Focuses on additive and homogeneous production possibility frontiers that have played an important role in formulating statistical tests of the theory of production. Characterization of the class of production possibility frontiers that are homogenous and additive; Representation of the production possibility frontier; Statistical tests of the theory of production. (Из Ebsco)
Measuring Performance in the Private Economy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1950–1973
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy
Journal Article Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy Get access Econometric Studies of U.S. Energy Policy. Edited by D. W. Jorgenson. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., Ltd., 1975. Pp. xviii + 254. $27.95.) K. J. Wigley K. J. Wigley Civil Service College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 343, 1 September 1976, Pages 647–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230827 P…
U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison
Journal Article U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison Get access Dale W. Jorgenson, Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mieko Nishimizu Mieko Nishimizu Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 352, 1 December 1978, Pages 707–726, https://doi.org/10…
Taxation and technical change
Aggregate Consumer Behavior and Household Equivalence Scales
This article presents estimates of household equivalence scales, broken down by demographic characteristics, of U.S. households. Separate estimates are given by family size, age of head, region, race, and urban versus rural residence. Commodity-specific scales are presented for five separate commodity groups—energy, food, consumer goods, capital services, and other services. The estimates are obtained from an econometric model of aggregate consum…
Two-Stage Budgeting and Exact Aggregation
This paper presents an econometric model of demand for energy based on two-stage budgeting. The model provides own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for energy and nonenergy commodities for the United States. These elasticities are estimated separately for households classified by family size, age of head, region, race, and urban versus rural residence. Price elasticities are presented conditional on total energy expenditure and total …
Productivity and Postwar U.S. Economic Growth
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the sources of postwar U.S. economic growth. The findings presented here allocate more than three-fourths of U.S. economic growth during the period 1948-1979 to growth of capital and labor inputs and less than one-fourth to productivity growth. To provide additional insight into the sources of U.S. economic growth, this paper then analyzes the sources of growth for individual industrial sectors. The final o…
Investment in Education
The purpose of this paper is to present new measures of the benefits from education. These measures are based on the incremental effect on human wealth of participation in formal schooling. We define human wealth as the sum of lifetime labor incomes for all individuals in the U.S. population. These incomes include the value of time spent working and the value of nonmarket labor activities, which are defined to include parenting and the enjoyment …
Environmental Regulation and U.S. Economic Growth
In this article we quantify the costs of pollution controls by reporting the results of simulations of the growth of the U.S. economy with and without regulation. For this purpose, we have constructed a detailed model of the economy that includes the determinants of long-term growth. We have also analyzed the interaction between industries in order to capture the full repercussions of environmental regulations. However, we have not attempted to a…
Tax Reform and U.S. Economic Growth
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on U.S. economic growth. We first calculate effective tax rates on income from capital employed in corporate, noncorporate, and household sectors. We then project the future growth of the U.S. economy with and without the 1986 tax reform. We find that much of the potential gain in welfare was dissipated through failure to index the income tax base for inflation. The most promising…
Productivity and US Economic Growth
Journal Article Productivity and US Economic Growth Get access Productivity and US Economic Growth. By D. W. JORGENSON, F. M. GOLLOP and B. FRAUMENI. (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989. Pp. 566. Dfl. 135.00 hardback. ISBN o 444 70353 5.) Sean Holly Sean Holly London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 March 1990, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Tax reform and the cost of capital
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