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The short- and long-run determinants of less-educated immigration into US states

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012

differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016

negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …

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The Cost of COVID-19 : A Rough Estimate of the 2020 US GDP Impact

Makridis, Christos - 2020

In this brief, we provide a back-of-the-envelope estimate of the impact of current mitigation measures on the 2020 GDP …. Furthermore, our granular dataset is broken down at the level of industrial activity within counties, which allows us to make GDP … forecasts at the county level.We estimate that the real GDP growth rate will decline 5 percent for each month of partial …

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Income and Education of the States of the United States : 1840-2000

Baier, Scott L. - 2015

This article introduces original annual average years of schooling measures for each state from 1840 to 2000. The paper also combines original data on real state per-worker output with existing data to provide a more comprehensive series of real state output per worker from 1840 to 2000. These...

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The V-factor: distribution, timing and correlates of the great Indian growth turnaround

Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2008

The ratio of Indian to US per capita output over the past 45 years has displayed a distinctive V-shaped pattern. We show that a strikingly similar V-shaped pattern is visible not just in aggregate output .figures, but also as the primary determinant of long-term movements in the cross-sectional...

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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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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth: Reconciling theory and evidence

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012

We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...

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Land inequality and the origin of divergence and overtaking in the growth process: Theory and evidence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2003

This research suggests that the distribution of land within and across countries affected the nature of the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was beneficial in early stages of development, generated...

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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005

This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...

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Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2006

This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of land ownership adversely affected the emergence of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling) and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the...

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