as they are used in the countries in our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with … lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per … they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that technology usage disparities might …

that economic development is a complex process driven by economic, political, social, and biophysical forces. Some … that geography's effects on development occurred exclusively through its effects on this historical institutional … development. We believe that economic development has also been shaped very importantly by the biophysical and geophysical …

to the diffusion of development and of specific innovations. We provide an interpretation of these results in the context … of an emerging literature seeking to understand variation in economic development as the result of factors rooted deep in …

differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment … hiring and training response is quicker than the wage response. We also observe in time series that the pace of technology … technology, maturing of the workforce, and growth of international trade reduce unemployment in the longer run. The same …

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …

which "experience"on a technology (proxied by the mean age of the capital stock) enters "non-neutrally." Our specification … technology embodied therein) ages. According to our estimates, the education-distribution of employment depends more strongly on …

that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the …, electronics, communication and automobile industries, may indicate that in effect Japan emphasizes the development of applied … technology.The second part of the paper is to show how two countries, one with heavy R&D activities in basic technology (the U …

development of patents by students who had acquired a STEM degree. First, the policy changed the direction of their innovation …