This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and … model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered by an increase in public education expenditure on behalf of … inequality follows an inverted U-shaped evolution. …

power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for economic growth, mainly coming from developing and emerging …

I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …

I construct and analyze a growth model in which technical change can increase unemployment. I first analyze the forces … interaction generates a balanced growth path that is observationally equivalent to that of the standard neoclassical growth model …, this change leads to faster growth in output per worker and wages, but it also yields higher unemployment and a lower labor …

country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country …