economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader … independent. The oft-reported significant cross-country relationships of many variables to economic growth may merely demonstrate … section ; time series ; economic growth ; life expectancy ; diffusion …

Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking …

aggregate and per capita GDP as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth, where "human capital" is the engine of … growth. By human capital we mean an intangible asset, best thought of as a stock of embodied and disembodied knowledge … of growth in per capita income in the US relative to the UK and other major European countries. …

population growth and its social stability effects dissipated. These conclusions are based on a new dataset encompassing 39 … and other types of social unrest, population growth and a host of other variables. The paper first documents that county …-level variations in poor relief had a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful non-monotonic impact on population growth …