Are living standards converging

By B. Hobijn, Philip Hans Franses. 2001

121 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9e76bb64559043acc1b1d988cfd2d9ea9a10df12

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond Income: Convergence in Living Standards, Big Time (2003, unknown): “Like Hobijn and Franses (2001) we use a Gaussian kernel and follow Silverman’s (1986, pp. 45ff.) recommendation for optimal choice of halfwidth according to the following formula (n is number of observations): hopt = , 2.006.1 −nA A = min(standard deviation, interquartile range/1.34) (2) One of the…”
• The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-Being (2009, unknown): “Examples of this approach are Slottje et al. (1991), Easterlin (2000), Hobijn and Franses (2001), Neumayer (2003) or the World Development Report (2006).”