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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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Identification and Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve : Pairwise Differencing to Deal with Nonlinearity and Nonstationarity
Sen, Suphi - 2016
We propose an estimation strategy that accounts for two major problems raised in the empirical literature testing for the prevalence of the inverted U-shaped relation between environmental degradation and economic activity, namely the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. First, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993697
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive link between average levels of subjective well-being and GDP per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756506
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World-Trade Growth Accounting
Egger, Peter H. - 2016
trade flows, and changes in trade to GDP ratio. The results suggest that changes in shocks to endogenous endowment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994081
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
economic growth by Sala-i-Martin et al. (2004) are sensitive to deviations from benchmark model averaging. For example, the GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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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 … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth
Crayen, Dorothee; Baten, Jörg - 2021
This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
exploratory analysis to test the hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic development (as measured by GDP … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034803
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Unraveling the Fortunates of the Fortunate : An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach
Eicher, Theo S. - 2007
We investigate country heterogeneity in cross-country growth regressions. In contrast to the previous literature that focuses on low-income countries, this study also highlights growth determinants in high-income (OECD) countries. We introduce Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777687