growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth … comparable income data. Our growth analysis using these data confirms the significant effects of cognitive skills on intra …

In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database … types in 52 different industries. The industry sources of productivity and output growth are crucial to the understanding of … enables researchers to develop an adequate picture of the sources of growth using standard growth accounting techniques. We …

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect … allows tracking student achievement across countries, over time, and along the within-country distribution. Extensive … sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across specifications, time periods …

strengthens in the process of endogenous growth and moreover that it pushes the optimal trade-off between quantity and quality of … in relation to GDP growth. Countering this trend would therefore require an increase in the share of GDP spent on basic …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in … parametric estimates may have seriously underestimated the growth effects of democracy. In particular, we find an average … negative effect on growth of leaving democracy on the order of -2 percentage points implying effects on income per capita as …

of organization of major interest groups has an impact on political outcomes and, in addition, allows for strategic … interaction among major interest groups. We decompose the overall inefficiency into three components: (i) a fundamental time … unavoidable conflict of interest. A numerical exercise (based on OECD data) shows that the distributional-conflict inefficiency …

other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural … resources promotes structural change and growth through two channels: First, by weakening oligopsony power of owners and thereby … earned in the primary goods sector. Second, by shifting the distribution of political power from resource owners towards the …