This volume is a major new survey of the latest developments in applied econometrics focusing on key topics in microeconometrics. Each topic is written by a leading international expert specially commissioned to address the methodological problems of undertaking empirical work in economics. The volume editors have focused on specific microeconometric applications, rather than on conventional econometric theory. The Handbook of Applied Econometrics covers the econometric issues involved in a variety of applied microeconomic problems:* the measurement of productivity* frontier production functions and the measurement of efficiency* consumer demand* income inequality and economic welfare* estimation of models of dynamic optimization* search models and duration data* quasi-likelihood methods for count data* analysis of business surveysAn authoritative overview of the applied work going on in the field, this will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, graduate students and professional economists in industry and government.