population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. … decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields …

aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … also in absence of population growth and generally is policy-dependent. …

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth … magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth. Embedding fungibility as an equilibrium outcome in an endogenous growth … have on growth. The main predictions of the model are tested using a panel dataset of 67 countries for 1972-2000. We find …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …

growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing … countries studied here a greater increase in happiness does not accompany more rapid economic growth. These conclusions hold …

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re … contemporary economic growth and social performance. In a Schumpeterian fashion, MNC penetration reflects the power, which …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of … of winners is smaller, these include nearly 80% of the total population of the sample. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … China as it tries to re-balance its growth. Finally, in light of important concerns over data, we examine the robustness of …