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Assessing The Quality Error In Output Measures: The Case Of Refrigerators

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  • Jack E. Triplett
  • Richard J. McDonald

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This paper computes new indexes of output for refrigerators, using hedonic methods to adjust for quality change. The hedonic technique is applied in a new way (it is used to make quality adjustments to prices before they are used in the index), and the results are compared with those from methods used in previous hedonic investigations. There are three major findings. (1) Overall (1960–1972), our hedonic deflated output series rise more rapidly than conventional measures, because the price indexes used for deflation rise more slowly. (2) The output measures fluctuate more than do output measures produced by conventional methods, because adding hedonic quality adjustments to WPI indexes moves them up in some years and down in others, and the resulting adjustments to the output series were positively correlated with changes in output. (3) Applying methods used in previous studies produces larger adjustments to the published indexes, suggesting that some of the differences noted in previous studies between hedonic indexes and official published indexes are related to computational methods, not to quality adjustment.

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  • Jack E. Triplett & Richard J. McDonald, 1977. "Assessing The Quality Error In Output Measures: The Case Of Refrigerators," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 23(2), pages 137-156, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:23:y:1977:i:2:p:137-156
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1977.tb00008.x
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