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A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

Mankiw, N. Gregory - 1990

This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human as well as physical capital provides an excellent description of the cross-country data. The...

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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

Putterman, Louis - 2008

We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...

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Appropriate Technology and Growth

Basu, Susanto - 1996

We present a model of growth and technology transfer based on the idea that technologies are specific to particular combinations of inputs. We argue that this model is more realistic than the usual specification, in which an improvement in any technique for producing a given good improves all...

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The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth

Galor, Oded - 1993

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … women's labor input than men's, raises women's relative wages. This positive feedback leads to the possibility of multiple …

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016

We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...

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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …

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