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The role of total factor productivity growth in middle-income countries
Kim, Jungsuk; Park, Jungsoo - 2017
We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross-country panel data for the period 1975-2014. We find that TFP growth contributed significantly to a country’s upward transition from middle-income to high-income country group. The TFP...
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A brief introduction to human capital measures
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020
the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United Nations Environmental Program and the Urban Institute of Kyushu … the University of Washington (Lim et al., 2018), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2019), the World Bank … (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, 2018), and the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum …
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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam : theory and evidence
Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010
systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world. …
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Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth
Kerekes, Monika - 2009
Acknowledging the fact that the growth experience of countries is seldom well described by the average growth rate, this paper aims at identifying countries that are similar in terms of their growth process, thus emphasizing the dynamics of growth rates. To that end, the growth experience of...
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Test scores and economic growth: update and extension
Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Jordahl, Henrik - 2021
Research indicates that education quality - measured by test scores in international student surveys - predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test scores of upper-secondary school students only. We find that the positive relationship between...
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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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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
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Demographic dynamics and long-run development : insights for the secular stagnation debate
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
transition that has occurred in the developed world over the past 150 years. To the extent that high growth rates in the past …
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