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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

also by income, since apparently, human capital in the world is not evenly distributed across different regions or …

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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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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Deaton, Angus - 2008

, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the … practical problems of implementing it. All of these data are underpinned by the International Comparison Program (ICP), which …

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World Technology Usage Lags

Comin, Diego A. - 2006

across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity …

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Growth Accelerations

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2004

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...

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Bank-Based or Market-Based Financial Systems : Which is Better?

Levine, Ross - 2002

For over a century, economists and policy makers have debated the relative merits of bank-based versus market-based financial systems. Recent research, however, argues that classifying countries as bank-based or market is not a very fruitful way to distinguish financial systems. This paper...

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Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel

Barro, Robert J. - 2002

Economic and political developments affect religiosity, and the extent of religious participation and beliefs influence economic performance and political institutions. We study these two directions of causation in a broad cross-country panel that includes survey information over the last 20...

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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

Beaudry, Paul - 2001

The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...

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