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Freedom, growth, and the environment
Barrett, Scott A.; Graddy, Kathryn - 1998
A number of recent papers have found that certain measures of pollution worsen and later improve as income per head increases. It is widely believed that the downhill portion of this inverted-U curve reflects an induced policy response; that, as incomes rise, citizens demand improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608462
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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274179
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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries
Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2005
We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share … equal-share relationship is the limiting distribution of output and factors among members of a fully integrated economy, and … it constraints the set of policies that can affect each member’s relative growth within an integrated economy. We …
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Climate change, economic growth, and health
Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2010
This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332438
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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Evaluating the real effect of bank branching deregulation: comparing contiguous counties across U.S. state borders
Huang, Rocco - 2007
This paper proposes a new methodology to evaluate the economic effect of statespecific policy changes, using bank-branching deregulations in the U.S. as an example. The new method compares economic performance of contiguous counties on opposite sides of state borders, where on one side...
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270564
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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007
United States during and after World War II was converted into economic activity via incumbent firms in the early postwar …
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The "V-Factor": distribution, timing and correlates of the great Indian growth turnaround
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2009
Following Bai (2004) and Bai and Ng (2004) we estimate a common factor representation of a panel of output series for India, disaggregated by 15 states and 14 broad industry groups. We find that a single common V-Factor accounts for a large part of the significant shift in the cross-sectional...
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