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How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the population? What is the effect of uncertainty over these growth rates? I address these questions using a model in which productivity and population growth are stochastic, and social...
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Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...
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Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of economic development by incorporating broader measures of saving and … investment, including human capital (education), and natural resource depletion. Its value as an indicator is determined by its …
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, progressive taxation as well as investment and output subsidies to the entrepreneurial sector …
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their growth performance. In our model, the effects of taxation on growth are highly non-linear. Low or moderate tax rates …
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who save but do not participate in the stock market will increase their consumption, thereby reducing saving and capital …
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past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth …
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inexplicable in more barren models. We suggest an explanation of why saving and investment may be correlated even with no … restrictions on trade in assets. We explain why a high saving country may nonetheless borrow from abroad to finance investment. We …, investment in capital goods and a non-traded good. Such an environment is rich enough to explain several phenomena that are …
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developing countries, and higher after 1973 than before. Our interpretation of the saving-investment evidence is that the …The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national … saving rates has by now been confirmed by many subsequent studies, even though their inference that international capital …
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