The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital

By Charles I. Jones, Paul M. Romer. 2009

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Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press (2011, background): “Macroeconomic research identifies the central role ideas play in technological change and growth (Jones and Romer 2010, Romer 1990, Lucas 2009).”
Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method (2014, background): “12 Jones and Romer (2010) propose an updated Kaldor list of stylized facts that stresses the importance of integration: “Fact 1: Increases in the extent of the market.”
Entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and economic growth: an ecosystem perspective (2018, neutral): “Jones and Romer (2009) bring these points together arguing that progress in growth theory resulted from a tractable description of production possibilities based on a production function and a small list of inputs.”
ONLINE APPENDIX: A GLOBAL VIEW OF C ROSS-BORDER MIGRATION (2014, positive): “Jones (2002) and Jones and Romer (2010) posit the following relationship between real per capita income and population size: (Income/Pop)j Pj = constant×Nγj .”
Systems of Innovation (2009, background): “An initial stock of human capital in a previous period is likely to generate innovation growth and productivity effects, downstream as well as upstream with lots of ‘spillovers’ and positive ‘externalities’ (e.g., Lucas, 1988 and theov rview by Jones and Romer, 2009).”
Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation (2017, background): “For an updated set of Kaldor's stylized facts, see (143).”
Why Have Measures of Earnings Quality Changed Over Time (2014, background): “The use of knowledge has also expanded because of increases in economies of scale and scope that have resulted from greater globalization (Romer, 1986; Jones and Romer, 2010).”
Energy and Economic Growth: The Stylized Facts (2014, background): “Recently, Jones and Romer (2010) introduced a set of “new Kaldor facts” for growth economics.”
The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: evidence from Dutch micro-data (2013, positive): “The importance of ideas rather than physical assets has only recently entered the innovation research agenda (Jones and Romer, 2010).”
Future growth patterns of world regions – A GDP scenario approach (2017, background): “Differences in labor and capital inputs explain less than half of cross country differences in per capita GDP New Kaldor NSF 5 (Jones and Romer, 2010) Human capital per worker is rising throughout the world Dosi DSF 10 Positive correlation between investment rates and economic growth Growth…”
The role of human capital and innovation in economic development: evidence from post-Malthusian Prussia (2017, positive): “…is one of the decisive factors in explaining why some countries became rich and others remained poor in the past two centuries (Goldin and Katz, 1998; Lucas, 2002; Glaeser et al., 2004; Hanushek and Woessmann, 2008; Jones and Romer, 2010; Galor, 2011; Acemoglu et al., 2014; Gennaioli et al., 2013).”
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700–2010 (2014, background): “In future research, it would be interesting to extend our decompositions in order to study the evolution of the relative importance of inherited versus life-cycle wealth in as many countries as possible.”
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS (2012, positive): “… mathematicians act as if they were competitive firms, the long-‐run adjustment in the capital stock would be given by d log K = d log L. In the words of Jones and Romer (2010): “In the long run, the benefits of a larger population which come from…”
Why Has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped (2012, positive): “With i indexing households and s indexing state of residence, we show the regression: 12A number of papers have noted a recent decline in gross interstate migration rates (Kaplan and Schulhofer-Wohl (2012), and Molloy et al. (2011)).”