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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition
Davidson, Carl - 2013
incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075958
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117356
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On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting
Gollier, Christian - 2011
Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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Public Debt, Economic Growth and Nonlinear Effects : Myth or Reality?
Égert, Balázs - 2013
This paper puts the Reinhart-Rogoff dataset to a formal econometric testing to see whether public debt has a negative nonlinear effect on growth if public debt exceeds 90% of GDP. Using nonlinear threshold models, we show that the negative nonlinear relationship between debt and growth is very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084015
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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088124