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Clark, Hunter - 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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Newer Need Not be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016

Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …

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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...

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COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality

Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...

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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2008

-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …

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Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

Alfaro, Laura - 2008

We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the...

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Global Inequality Dynamics : New Findings from WID.world

Alvaredo, Facundo - 2017

This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world …

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How do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications

Bick, Alexander - 2016

This paper builds a new internationally comparable database of hours worked to measure how hours vary with income across and within countries. We document that average hours worked per adult are substantially higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries. The pattern of decreasing...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

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International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2010

We examine the cross-country dispersion in fiscal outcomes during 2007-2009. In principle, international differences in fiscal policy may be related to differences in optimal fiscal positions, funding constraints, political economy factors and fiscal control problems. We find that the decline in...

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