Good modeling of bad outputs: editors’ introduction

Good and bad death: introduction.

The idea for this collection arose during a workshop chaired by Sjaak van der Geest, for which Clive Seale wrote an initial review paper (Seale 2000), and took place in November 2000 at the 15th Social Science & Medicine conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The workshop provided participants with a fascinating opportunity to explore the considerable cross-cultural variation in patterns of ...

What (good) Is Historical Epistemology? Editors' Introduction

We provide an overview of three ways in which the expression ‘Historical epistemology’ (HE) is often understood: (1) HE as a study of the history of higher-order epistemic concepts such as objectivity, observation, experimentation, or probability; (2) HE as a study of the historical trajectories of the objects of research, such as the electron, DNA, or phlogiston; (3) HE as the long-term study ...

Multi-output efficiency with good and bad outputs

Cherchye et al. (2013b) introduced a DEA methodology that is specially tailored for multi-output efficiency measurement. The methodology accounts for jointly used inputs and incorporates information on how inputs are allocated to outputs. In this paper, we present extensions that render the methodology useful to deal with undesirable (or “bad”) outputs in addition to desirable (or “good”) outpu...

A Distance Function Model with Good and Bad Outputs

Bad Outputs

This draft chapter, prepared for inclusion in the (prospective) Handbook of Production Economics, Vol. 1 (Theory), edited by Subash Ray, Robert Chambers, and Subal Kumbhakar, analyses recent developments in the modeling of pollution-generating technologies. We first lay out the inadequacies of the traditional, single-equation representations of models of such technologies prominently associated...