NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

Economywide Country Studies


2009
w15490 Eric J. Bartelsman
John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta

Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

w15474 James Feyrer
The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality

w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

w15360 Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Romain Wacziarg

The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages

w15305 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality

w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

w15190 Sebastian Edwards
FORTY YEARS OF LATIN AMERICA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: From the Alliance for Progress to the Washington Consensus

w15171 Sebastian Edwards
Latin America's Decline: A Long Historical View

w15067 Hongbin Cai
J. Vernon Henderson
Qinghua Zhang

China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption

w15000 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

w14967 Robert W. Fogel
The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth

w14820 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe

w14694 Sambit Bhattacharyya
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation

w14644 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006


2008
w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

w14595 Francisco J. Buera
Alexander Monge-Naranjo
Giorgio E. Primiceri

Learning the Wealth of Nations

w14363 William Easterly
Can the West Save Africa?

w14178 Ana M. Fernandes
Ariel Pakes

Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

w14136 Leo Feler
J. Vernon Henderson

Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

w14130 David Y. Albouy
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data

w14109 Robert Koopman
Zhi Wang
Shang-Jin Wei

How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive

w14024 Hany Besada
Yang Wang
John Whalley

China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

w14009 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Gautier Duflos

Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look

w14008 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003

w13968 Edward Miguel
Sebastián M. Saiegh
Shanker Satyanath

National Cultures and Soccer Violence

w13959 Gustavo Crespi
Chiara Criscuolo
Jonathan E. Haskel
Matthew Slaughter

Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers

w13936 Atif Mian
Amir Sufi

The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis

w13930 Gary Richardson
Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution

w13914 Susan Perkins
Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms

w13852 Lee Alston
Shannan Mattiace
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915

w13838 Erica M. Field
Omar Robles
Máximo Torero

The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

w13836 Farley Grubb
Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811


2007
w13631 Susana Iranzo
Giovanni Peri

Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w13469 Charles R. Hulten
Anders Isaksson

Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries

w13435 Joseph P.H. Fan
Randall Morck
Lixin Colin Xu
Bernard Yeung

Institutions and Foreign Investment: China versus the World

w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13290 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Peter J. Klenow

Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

w13208 Daron Acemoglu
María Angélica Bautista
Pablo Querubín
James A. Robinson

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

w13171 Randall Morck
Masao Nakamura

Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

w13120 Simon Johnson
Jonathan D. Ostry
Arvind Subramanian

The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints

w13109 Timothy Guinnane
Ron Harris
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Putting the Corporation in its Place

w13087 Rodrigo R. Soares
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

w13085 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

w13084 Joshua Aizenman
Mark Spiegel

Takeoffs

w13011 Hyunbae Chun
Jung-Wook Kim
Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity


2006
w12779 John Whalley
Ximing Yue

Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China

w12768 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

w12755 Chong-En Bai
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Yingyi Qian

The Return to Capital in China

w12677 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn
Emilie Rovito

World Technology Usage Lags

w12610 Robert H. Bates
John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

w12573 Gerard Padro i Miquel
The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear

w12551 Jianhuai Shi
Are Currency Appreciations Contractionary in China?

w12517 Jean-Marie Baland
James A. Robinson

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

w12373 Lee Branstetter
Nicholas Lardy

China's Embrace of Globalization

w12191 Andrew K. Rose
Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

w12153 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

The Diffusion of Development

w12129 Ricardo J. Caballero
Takeo Hoshi
Anil K. Kashyap

Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

w12104 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Jonathan A. Parker

Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country: Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom

w12023 Kalpana Kochhar
Utsav Kumar
Raghuram Rajan
Arvind Subramanian

India's Patterns of Development: What Happened, What Follows

w11954 Edward Miguel
Gerard Roland

The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam

w11928 Diego Comin
Bart Hobijn
Emilie Rovito

Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion

w11925 Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers

Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox


2005
w11801 Dale W. Jorgenson
Kazuyuki Motohashi

Information Technology and the Japanese Economy

w11749 Fumio Hayashi
Koji Nomura

Can IT be Japan's Savior?

w11679 Steven J. Davis
Luis Rivera-Batiz

The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

w11384 Murray Leibbrandt
James Levinsohn
Justin McCrary

Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

w11353 Kathryn M.E. Dominguez
Linda L. Tesar

International Borrowing and Macroeconomic Performance in Argentina

w11171 Torsten Persson
Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development

w11052 Jun Qian
Philip E. Strahan

How Law and Institutions Shape Financial Contracts: The Case of Bank Loans

w11022 Diego Comin
Bart Hobijn

Lobbies and Technology Diffusion


2004
w10990 Geert Bekaert
Campbell R. Harvey
Christian Lundblad
Stephan Siegel

Global Growth Opportunities and Market Integration

w10752 Robert W. Fogel
High Performing Asian Economies

w10649 Glenda Mallon
John Whalley

China's Post Accession WTO Stance

w10566 Ricardo Hausmann
Lant Pritchett
Dani Rodrik

Growth Accelerations

w10538 Asish Arora
Alfonso Gambardella

The Globalization of the Software Industry: Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

w10376 Dani Rodrik
Arvind Subramanian

From "Hindu Growth" to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

w10302 Sebastian Edwards
The Economics of Latin American Art: Creativity Patterns and Rates of Return

t0296 William R. Hauk
Romain Wacziarg

A Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions

w10197 Robert C. Feenstra
Marshall B. Reinsdorf

Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth


2003
w9768 Maury Gittleman
Thijs ten Raa
Edward N. Wolff

The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

w9411 Alberto Alesina
Arnaud Devleeschauwer
William Easterly
Sergio Kurlat
Romain Wacziarg

Fractionalization


2002
w9223 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Borders and Growth


2001
w8142 Ethan Kaplan
Dani Rodrik

Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?


2000
w7750 Gernot Doppelhofer
Ronald I. Miller
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

w7673 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin
Jeffrey S. Zax

The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China

w7586 Hans-Werner Sinn
Germany's Economic Unification: An Assessment after Ten Years


1999
w7081 Francisco Rodriguez
Dani Rodrik

Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence


1998
w6788 Arie Bregman
Melvyn Fuss
Haim Regev

The Effects of Capital Subsidization on Israeli Industry

w6397 Dan Ben-David
Robin L. Lumsdaine
David H. Papell

Unit Roots, Postwar Slowdowns and Long-Run Growth: Evidence from Two Structural Breaks


1997
w6252 Xavier X. Sala-i-Martin
I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

w5939 Holger C. Wolf
Patterns of Intra- and Inter-State Trade


1996
w4436 Magnus Blomstrom
Robert E. Lipsey
Mario Zejan

Is Fixed Investment the Key to Economic Growth?

w5470 John F. Helliwell
Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia


1994
w4066 John F. Helliwell
Empirical Linkages Between Democracy and Economic Growth


1992
w4072 Arie Bregman
Melvyn Fuss
Haim Regev

The Production and Cost Structure of Israeli Industry: Evidence From Individual Firm Data


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