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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Published in <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01613.x/abstract">The Scandinavian Journal of Economics"</A>, 112(3), 618-39.<P>The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic...</p></a>

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137275

Economic Growth and the Volatility of Foreign Aid

Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the … volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 … economic growth. Correspondingly, volatility of aid flows is found to be negatively related to growth. We found no significant …

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Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial linkages in standard empirical models of economic growth. Our dataset consists … of TFP estimates for 73 countries over the period 1960-2000, and we find that TFP growth rates and levels are positively … the Nelson and Phelps (1966) model shows that the impact of being located close to a country with high TFP growth rates is …

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

use and ecosystem management; growth and environmental resources; economic and evolutionary progress; and individual …

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Structural Differences in Economic Growth

Basturk, Nalan; Paap, Richard; Dijk, Dick van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper addresses heterogeneity in determinants of economic growth in a data-driven way. Instead of defining groups … of countries with different growth characteristics a priori, based on, for example, geographical location, we use a … growth determinants. Applying this approach to an annual unbalanced panel of 59 countries in Asia, Latin and Middle America …

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