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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
Deaton, Angus - 2008
, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …
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Population and Welfare : The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
Adhami, Mohamad; Bils, Mark; Jones, Charles I.; Klenow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the world averages more than 6% per year since 1960 as opposed to 2% per year for consumption growth. Countries such as …
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with …
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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512141
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Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA's Accounts : Improved Methods for Calculating GDP by Industry
Moyer, Brian - 2005
Aggregate measures of real GDP growth obtained from the GDP by Industry Accounts often differ from the featured measure of real GDP growth obtained from the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs). We find that differences in source data account for most of the difference in aggregate real...
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Distributional National Accounts : Methods and Estimates for the United States
Piketty, Thomas - 2016
This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since 1913. Our distributional national accounts capture 100% of national income, allowing us to compute growth rates for each quantile of the income distribution...
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The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, Revisited
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2015
In the 25 years since Jorgenson and Fraumeni (1989) published their first article on human capital, the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) and the SNA have changed significantly. The contribution of this paper is two-fold: Creation of a contemporary set of accounts which integrate...
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Is GDP Becoming Obsolete? The "Beyond GDP" Debate
Hulten, Charles R.; Nakamura, Leonard Isamu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
GDP is a closely watched indicator of the current health of the economy and an important tool of economic policy. It has been called one of the great inventions of the 20th Century. It is not, however, a persuasive indicator of individual wellbeing or economic progress. There have been calls to...
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Disaggregated Economic Accounts
Andersen, Asger Lau; Hansen, Emil Toft; Huber, Kilian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
("producer cells"), the government, and the rest of the world. We disaggregate the full circular flow of money, including …
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A Model of Intangible Capital
Crouzet, Nicolas; Eberly, Janice C.; Eisfeldt, Andrea L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We propose a model that starts from the premise that intangible capital needs to be stored on some medium --- software, patents, essential employees --- before it can be utilized in production. Storage implies that intangible capital may be partially non-rival within the firm, leading to scale...
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