Nature

Spatio-temporal evolution and obstacle diagnosis of human settlements based on the “production-living-ecological” functions

Sustainable development is a hot topic of global concern and sustainable human settlements (HS) are crucial to people’s happiness. Thus, strengthening the construction of HS will help enrich human ...
World Bank

A Guide to Government Analytics

Government analytics refers to the use of data to diagnose and improve the machinery of government, or public administration. The Handbook introduces a public administration production function to ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making

This appendix provides technical details on the modeling of production function approaches to valuing aquatic ecosystems discussed in Chapter 4. The general production function (PF) approach of ...
Nature

A 1-km Dataset of Water Consumption and Irrigation for Major Grain Crops in the Yellow River Basin Based on the Crop Water Production Function

The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is a vital grain-production region in China. Its grain output constitutes approximately 35.33% of the national total, according to the “Report on Ecological Protection and ...
San Francisco Fed

Micro and Macro Perspectives on Production-Based Markups

We review the “production approach” to estimating markups—the ratio of price to marginal cost. Paired with increasingly rich microdata and advances in production function estimation, the method ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making

This appendix discusses in more detail the modeling of household production methods of valuing aquatic ecosystem services discussed in Chapter 4. Household production function (HPF) approaches involve ...