Convergence and Modernization Revisited

By Robert J. Barro. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Human capital in the long run (2016, background): “In addition, it exerts a significant influence on social and political issues, such as fertility, the education of children, and democracy (Becker, 2009; Barro, 2012).”
What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence? (2018, result): “Perron (1989) shows that trend or structural breaks reduce the power of unit-root tests and many researchers have found that permitting structural breaks in the form of mean or trend shifts, either exogenously or endogenously determined, makes it less more likely that the null hypothesis of a unit r”
News Shocks in Open Economies: Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries (2015, unknown): “Indeed, Barro (2012) shows that there could be substantial bias in relatively small samples.”
The Facts of Economic Growth (2015, methodology): “For example, the United Nations National Accounts 21See also Baumol (1986) and DeLong (1988). database publishes current and constant-price GDP numbers for 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1991 and 2004, but as of mid-2006, the UN Statistical Office had actually received data for only one ha”
Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan* (2015, unknown): “Indonesia in turn illustrates yet another source of idiosyncratic variation, coming from the fact that seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere.16 Note also that the farther from the Equator, the greater the amplitude of variation.”
Growth in regions (2014, unknown): “To organize the discussion, we present a neoclassical model of regional growth related to the earlier work of Barro et al. (1995), Braun (1993), and Ganong and Shoag (2012). To account for persistent disparities in regional incomes, we incorporate into the model a stylized process of mobility of hum”