Adjusting the measurement of US manufacturing productivity for air pollution emissions control |
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Authors: | Deborah Vaughn Aiken Carl A Pasurka Jr |
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Institution: | a Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC, USA;b US Environmental Protection Agency (1809T), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, USA |
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Abstract: | We estimate a distance function and derive producer shadow prices for SO2 and PM-10 emissions. The shadow prices are used to adjust a traditional measure of total factor productivity growth in order to account for the reallocation of inputs from production of the marketed output to pollution abatement activities. Adjusted total factor productivity growth rates are calculated for the two-digit SIC manufacturing industries in the United States for 1970–1996. The results indicate that including the “output” of pollution abatement activities has a measurable effect on the productivity of many industries in the manufacturing sector. |
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Keywords: | Adjusted productivity Air pollution Distance function Joint production |
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