Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,416
Cover Image
China's GDP Growth May Be Understated
Clark, Hunter L. - 2017
Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958590
Cover Image
Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist … introduces the chapters comprising the NBER volume Capitalizing China (Fan and Morck, eds. 2012), which examine China's high … consider policy alternatives the CCP might consider if its goal is China's elevation into the ranks of high income countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117212
Cover Image
Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
Lucas, Robert E. - 2012
A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755350
Cover Image
Understanding Ppps and Ppp-Based National Accounts
Deaton, Angus - 2010
such as China, India, and Brazil, how to estimate prices for government services, health, and education, and the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758136
Cover Image
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758453
Cover Image
The Rise of the Sunbelt
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2010
In the last 50 years, population and incomes have increased steadily throughout much of the Sunbelt. This paper assesses the relative contributions of rising productivity, rising demand for Southern amenities and increases in housing supply to the growth of warm areas, using data on income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760104
Cover Image
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the Us Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
This paper offers a thesis as to why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the quot;engine of growthquot;. The conjecture is that the ascendancy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760416
Cover Image
Global Patterns of Income and Health : Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
Deaton, Angus - 2010
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life expectancy decreased for many years after 1945, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760511
Cover Image
Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth
Weil, David N. - 2010
I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to health, which I combine with cross-country and historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762437
Cover Image
The Contribution of Highways to GDP Growth
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2009
This paper constructs updated measures of productive highway capital stocks at the total, Interstate, Non-interstate, and Local System levels to estimate the contribution of all highways (all public roads) to GDP growth. It presents three types of contribution to GDP growth estimates and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764837