Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier Analysis for the Social Sciences

This textbook provides an up-to-date treatment of the two-tier shastic frontier model and its applications across the social sciences. It is a cohesive treatise on both the classical methods of estimation and inference and various machinations of the two-tier shastic frontier model, as well as more recently developed tools that can shed new insight into why these opposing latent forces which affect economic, sociopolitical, and even psychological outcomes, exist, and to what extent. The tex...