Extensions of Economic Growth Analysis: Human Capital and Computers

这是由妇女研究机会方案和经济学方案支持的职业发展奖。这类奖项的广泛目的是使有前途的女性学者能够提高她们的研究生产率。有了这个奖项，这位研究员将在三个领域进行研究。首先将涉及完善劳动力素质的衡量标准，以更准确地反映劳动力构成变化的影响，从而改善对经济增长的估计。第二个是相关的研究领域，也将致力于改进对经济增长的衡量，包括对非市场活动的估值，其中考虑到因养育子女的劳动力活动中断而造成的终身收入损失。第三个研究领域将侧重于分析在计算机硬件制造领域产生比较优势的因素。由于计算机是加速技术进步的重要组成部分，了解是什么在其制造中产生比较优势是很重要的。

This is a Career Advancement Award supported under the Research Opportunities for Women Program and the Economics Program. The broad purpose of this type of award is to enable promising women scholars to increase their research productivity. With this award, the investigator will pursue three areas of research. The first will involve the refinement of measures of labor quality, to more accurately reflect the impact of changes in the composition of the labor force, thereby improving estimates of economic growth. The second, a related area of research, will also be directed at improving the measurement of economic growth by including the valuation of nonmarket activities that takes into account the loss in lifetime earnings due to interruptions of labor force activity for child rearing. The third area of research will focus on analyzing the factors that give rise to a comparative advantage in computer-hardware manufacturing. Since computers are a vital component in the acceleration of technical progress, it is important to understand what gives rise to comparative advantage in their manufacture.