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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13714
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a translog specification of the skill technology, properly anchored treatment effect estimates are invariant to any location and scale normalizations of the underlying measures. By contrast, when researchers assume a CES production function and impose standard location and scale normalizations, the resulting treatment effect estimates are biased. Interestingly, the CES technology with standard normalizations yields biased treatment effect estimates even when age-invariant measures of the skills are available. We theoretically prove the normalization invariance of the translog production function and then produce several simulations illustrating the effects of location and scale normalizations for different technologies and types of skills measures.
Schlagwörter: 
children
human capital
dynamic factor analysis
measurement
policy
JEL: 
C13
C18
I38
J13
J24
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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