Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …

the capital stock, and the increase of multifactor productivity. I calculate a likely growth rate of 2.6 percent a year …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is …This paper is not about the recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …

In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta … "iron-law" rate of 2%. In the post-1960s panel, estimation without country fixed effects supports the modernization … long-term panel with country fixed effects also supports modernization, in the sense of positive effects of per capita GDP …

-run effects of temperature estimated by panel models. The theoretical framework suggests that half of the negative short …