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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …
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Utilizing panel data for 19 OECD countries we find suppor t for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the US helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export...
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This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...
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We focus on the link between political instability due to uncertain electoral outcomes and economic growth, through the impact on a government's decisions on how to allocate government expenditure between public consumption and investment. Using an endogenous growth model with partisan electoral...
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Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …
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disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular …
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