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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010
growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an … indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts. For countries with good national income … official data. Lights data also allow for measurement of income growth in sub- and supranational regions. As an application, we …
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Borders and Growth
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
This paper presents a framework to understand and measure the effects of political borders on economic growth and per capita income levels. We present a model providing a theoretical foundation to estimate empirically the effects of political borders on growth. In our model, political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240303
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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 economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....
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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...
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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - 2021
This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring a Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F.; Fender, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H. - 2021
between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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Are the World's Poorest Being Left Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2015
The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and …
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Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2014
Any economic analysis of climate change policy requires some model that describes the impact of warming on future GDP and consumption. Most integrated assessment models (IAMs) relate temperature to the level of real GDP and consumption, but there are theoretical and empirical reasons to expect...
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The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Andreoni, James; Levinson, Arik - 2021
Evidence suggests that some pollutants follow an inverse-U-shaped pattern relative to countries' incomes. This relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution-income relationship. We show that the environmental Kuznets...
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Height and Per Capita Income
Steckel, Richard H. - 2021
As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to...
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