Openness and Growth: What's the Empirical Relationship? | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Openness and Growth: Whats the Empirical Relationship? , Robert E. Baldwin. in Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the ... Rodriguez and Rodrik show that openness simply in the sense of liberal trade policies seems to be no guarantee of faster growth ... and important theoretical advances in growth theory. This paper briefly surveys this literature and points out the main reasons ...
The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence David E. Bloom, David Canning & Jaypee Sevilla ... In this paper, we extend production function models of economic growth to account for two additional variables that ... Macroeconomists acknowledge the contribution of human capital to economic growth, but their empirical studies define human ...
A Global View of Productivity Growth in China | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... A Global View of Productivity Growth in China Chang-Tai Hsieh & Ralph Ossa ... Focusing on the years 1995 to 2007, we find that the spillover e¤ects of Chinas productivity growth are small causing the real ... How does a countrys productivity growth a¤ect worldwide real incomes through international trade? In this paper, we take this ...
Growth in a Time of Debt | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... When external debt reaches 60 percent of GDP, annual growth declines by about two percent; for higher levels, growth rates are ... Above 90 percent, median growth rates fall by one percent, and average growth falls considerably more. We find that the ... The median growth of the 20 advanced nations in this study fell by half as their debt levels moved from less than 30 percent of ...
Life and Growth | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... leading society to value safety over consumption growth. As a result, the optimal rate of consumption growth may be ... How is growth theory altered when technologies involve life and death instead of just higher consumption? This paper shows that ... "Life and Growth," Journal of Political Economy, vol 124(2), pages 539-578. citation courtesy of ...
The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination Darius Lakdawalla & Tomas Philipson ... "The growth of obesity and technological change," Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 7(3), pages 283-293, December. ... In particular, we find that about forty percent of the recent growth in weight seems to be due to agricultural innovation that ...
SI 2017 Economic Growth | NBER
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A Model of Secular Stagnation | NBER
Other forces that work in the same direction and can both create or exacerbate the problem include a drop in population growth ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ...
Secular Stagnation: The Long View | NBER
... a decline in the rate of population growth, an absence of attractive investment opportunities, and a drop in the relative price ... Growth economists are divided on whether the U.S. is facing a period of "secular stagnation" - an extended period of slow ... The greater the changes required by new technologies, the author reasons, the more growth may slow in the short run, but once ... With regard to long-term future growth rates, a key point of debate is how to interpret, and project forward, the "Third ...
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers: Evidence from New York | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... We gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from Pivotal Ventures, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Russell Sage ... Foundation, and Ford Foundation, and support from the Columbia Population Research Center which is funded by the National ...
The Supply Side of Housing Markets | NBER
... even though population growth is relatively low, and very few net new housing units are built in these areas. In this version ... 7 If supply is elastic, then strong demand shows up in growing populations amid much home building. This is the story of the ... 7. E. L. Glaeser, J. Gyourko, and R. Saks, "Urban Growth and Housing Supply," Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 6, No. 1 ( ... Housing Supply and the Nature of Urban Growth. More broadly, theory and the data indicate that the supply side of housing ...
Productivity Growth and Employment | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Productivity growth in the United States has rebounded sharply over the past decade, after the disappointingly sluggish growth ... Examining the relevant "elasticities" between employment and productivity growth, he shows that more rapid productivity growth ... The strong productivity growth of the past decade is comparable with the 1948-73 period. The two peak years in the recent ...
Age and Scientific Genius | NBER
... while providing further insights about the implications of aging populations, education policies, and economic growth. ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ...
Cross-Country Evidence on Labor Market Fluidity and Wage Growth | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Cross-Country Evidence on Labor Market Fluidity and Wage Growth Share Twitter LinkedIn Email ... The most fluid job markets are 2.5 times as fluid as the least, and they also exhibit more rapid wage growth over the life ... Wage jumps associated with job changes account for about a quarter of the higher life cycle wage growth that is observed in ...
Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth | NBER
... and may slow economic growth. In Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth (NBER Working Paper No. 16705), co- ... These researchers first study how changes in population age structure affected economic growth between 1960 and 2005. They then ... and Gunther Fink conclude that OECD countries are likely to experience lower rates of economic growth because of population ... If their population age structure between 1960 and 2005 had been what projections suggest it will be for the 2005 to 2050 ...
Rural Population Density Linked to Chinese Entrepreneurial Development | NBER
Since the early 1990s, the Chinese economy has achieved some of the highest rates of growth in GDP per capita in recorded ... Rural Population Density Linked to Chinese Entrepreneurial Development Share Twitter LinkedIn Email ... There is also a positive effect of lagged network size, and the interaction of network size with birth county population ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ...
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population | NBER
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population Charles I. Jones ... "The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population," American Economic Review, vol 112(11), pages ... In many models, economic growth is driven by people discovering new ideas. These models typically assume either a constant or a ... It is a distinct possibility - highlighted in the recent book, "Empty Planet" - that global population will decline rather than ...
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Book: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth Book editors: Stanley L. Engerman & Robert E. Gallman ...
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... "Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences," Handbook of Economic Growth, in: Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (ed.), ... it does for the cross-section what growth accounting does in the time series. The current consensus is that efficiency is at ... Handbook of Economic Growth, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 9, pages 679-741 Elsevier. ...
Skill Biased Structural Change | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... financial relationships with the International Monetary Fund for a financial inclusion course and lectures on inclusive growth ...
The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions) | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Economic Growth is Reducing Global Poverty Author(s): Xavier Sala-i-Martin ...
Achieving Scale Collectively | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Economic Fluctuations and Growth * Economics of Education * Economics of Health * Environment and Energy Economics ...
The Gender Unemployment Gap | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Economic Fluctuations and Growth * Economics of Education * Economics of Health * Environment and Energy Economics ...
By How Much Does GDP Rise if the Government Buys More Output? | NBER
With allowance for other factors holding back GDP growth during those wars, the multiplier linking government purchases to GDP ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ...
Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa | NBER
We would like to thank Eyal Frank and the participants of the NBER conference on Understanding Productivity Growth in ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ...
Risks in China's Financial System | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... the ultimate risk lies with Chinas economic growth, as a vicious circle of distortions in the financial system lowers the ... efficiency of capital allocation and economic growth and will eventually exacerbate financial risks in the long run. ...
How Fast Has China Grown? | NBER
He finds that while the government was reporting 4 percent growth, if they had blended their own price indexes into the mix, ... 2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... "In this regard, moderate productivity growth might be seen as reflecting enduring problems, such as the failure to reform state ... Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the Peoples Republic of China during the Reform Period ...
Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Targeted Cancer Therapies Market Analysis, Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and ... ...
The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies: Evidence from the EDGAR Implementation | NBER
2023, SI Economics of Social Security, Panel Discussion, Long-Term Dynamics of the Employment-to-Population Ratio ... Value stocks really may have lost their mojo this time - and growth stocks are gaining ... ...