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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2002

evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …

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Consumption Risk and International Asset Returns : Some Empirical Evidence

Cumby, Robert E. - 1987

The paper examines if real stock returns in four countries are consistent with consumption-based models of international asset pricing. The paper finds that ex-ante real stock returns exhibit statistically significant fluctuations over time and that these fluctuations cannot be explained by...

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Policies to Foster Human Capital

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...

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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic : Lessons from the “Spanish Flu” for the Coronavirus’s Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity

Barro, Robert J. - 2020

.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

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A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010

Barro, Robert J. - 2010

Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with...

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On the Size Distribution of Macroeconomic Disasters

Barro, Robert J. - 2009

In the rare-disasters setting, a key determinant of the equity premium is the size distribution of macroeconomic disasters, gauged by proportionate declines in per capita consumption or GDP. The long-term national-accounts data for up to 36 countries provide a large sample of disaster events of...

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An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2009

This paper analyzes a detailed plan to set quantitative national limits on emissions of greenhouse gases, following along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol. It is designed to fill in the most serious gaps: the absence of targets extending as far as 2100, the absence of participation by the United...

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Social Security and Democracy

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2002

Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...

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The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …

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