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The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 69 No. 2 1987

The Age of Capital, the Age of Utilized Capital, and Tests of the Embodiment Hypothesis

Richard McHugh; Julia Lane1

1 Urban Initiative

Abstract

Early tests of the embodiment hypothesis, which suggests that new capital is more productive than old, may have been biased due to the incorrect use of age, rather than utilized age of capital. This study, which attempts to correct for the potential mismeasurement bias by using the utilized age of capital in the analysis, finds evidence that the embodiment hypothesis is valid.

DOI
10.2307/1927246
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
362
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