A stochastic frontier model with correction for sample selection

被引:144
作者
Greene, William [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU, Stern Sch Business, Dept Econ, New York, NY 10012 USA
关键词
Stochastic frontier; Sample selection; Simulation; Efficiency; TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY;
D O I
10.1007/s11123-009-0159-1
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Heckman's (Ann Econ Soc Meas 4(5), 475-492, 1976; Econometrica 47, 153-161, 1979) sample selection model has been employed in three decades of applications of linear regression studies. This paper builds on this framework to obtain a sample selection correction for the stochastic frontier model. We first show a surprisingly simple way to estimate the familiar normal-half normal stochastic frontier model using maximum simulated likelihood. We then extend the technique to a stochastic frontier model with sample selection. In an application that seems superficially obvious, the method is used to revisit the World Health Organization data (WHO in The World Health Report, WHO, Geneva 2000; Tandon et al. in Measuring the overall health system performance for 191 countries, World Health Organization, 2000) where the sample partitioning is based on OECD membership. The original study pooled all 191 countries. The OECD members appear to be discretely different from the rest of the sample. We examine the difference in a sample selection framework.
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页码:15 / 24
页数:10
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