Using the Kilts Nielsen Consumer Panel (KNCP), this paper documents new stylized facts on expenditure and income growth …. Next, I document that movers' income growth displays higher variance than non-movers', both before and after moving. Movers …' expenditure growth also exhibits higher variance than non-movers' before and after the move. These findings suggest that movers …

Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this … work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data … to determine the extent to which policy choices help or hinder growth. This paper generates estimates of the net …

In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross …-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies …, we decomposed the growth of output per worker into components attributable to technological catch-up, technological …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among … investigation that brings forth evidence on the importance of natural resource endowment type on growth or, more appropriately, lack … growth than a resource endowment that is agricultural. The robustness of this result is tested across a number of growth …

addition to conventional factors of production to output growth, and thus it should be accounted for in total factor … productivity growth (TFPG) measurement and deducted from the .residual. A theoretical framework of growth accounting methodology … from a panel of 23 OECD countries, we show that emissions. growth have a statistically significant contribution to the …