Extensions of Economic Growth Analysis: Human Capital and Computers

这是一项职业发展奖，由研究 妇女机会方案和经济方案。 的 这类奖项的主要目的是使有前途的妇女 学者们提高他们的研究生产力。 与此 研究人员将在三个领域进行研究。 的 首先是劳动力素质指标的细化， 更准确地反映变化的影响， 劳动力的组成，从而提高估计 经济增长 第二个是相关的研究领域， 还应致力于改进经济增长的衡量方法 通过包括非市场活动的估值， 考虑到由于中断而导致的终身收入损失 的劳动力活动。 的第三个领域 研究将侧重于分析导致 在计算机硬件制造方面的比较优势。 以来 计算机是加速技术进步的重要组成部分。 重要的是要了解是什么导致了 在生产上具有比较优势。

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.