A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal …) sources of growth matter: increased livestock was associated with increased collections, and falling household size, increased …

. Rather than being a key condition for subsequent growth, gains in market efficiency and growth might have occurred … simultaneously. We discuss the implications of these findings for a number of explanations for long-run growth and the Industrial …

The paper is concerned with the empirical modelling of domestic demand for energy in the United Kingdom at the level of …-stage budgeting model of the household's demand for energy conditional on its ownership of durables. Preferences at both stages of the … data has not been fully exploited in the analysis of energy demand to date. Unrestricted reduced-form estimates are …

This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH …

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a …

A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the … economic growth by raising total factor productivity, but its impact is only transitory. Several predictions on the evolution …

.0-5.6 percent per year depending on the estimation horizon. The result is robust to a large number of specification tests, and …