retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate …

Growth dynamics are remarkably heterogeneous, in particular when one focuses on developing countries. Economic miracles … and failures are embedded within extended phases of either growth or decline. We propose a methodology and a taxonomy that … will characterize countries' growth patterns on the basis of the sequence of regimes they experience. In particular, we …

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

decades. External liberalization may have important long-term effects on macroeconomic variables such as growth rates … growth: it emphasizes the expected effects of openness on the patterns of trade specialization, and the consequent impacts in … terms of growth in the long run. After presenting some of the main theoretical findings on the matter, a preliminary …

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth … county. This is a departure from much of the economic growth literature, which has (at least in part) relied on extrapolation … economic growth, (ii) the percentage obtaining a high school diploma is positively correlated with growth, and (iii) the …

Our work contributes to the literature relating output structure and economic development by showing that growth gains … capabilities available to domestic firms operating in ordinary trade is an important driver of economic growth. However, no direct … technology adoption to be growth enhancing. …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth …

This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and … the ``Modern Growth Regime". We view the unified modeling of this long transition process - from thousand of years of … Malthusian stagnation through the demographic transition to modern growth - as one of the most significant research challenges …

the PWT to estimate growth rates. Moreover, this variability matters for the cross-country growth literature. While growth …