Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries

By Robert J. Barro. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the Poor : Analytical Issues and Cross-Country Evidence (2002, background): “However, recent formal econometric studies 21 (such as Barro (2000)) have been unable to Þnd a robust relation between per capita income and inequality.”
Inequality and growth in advanced economies: an empirical investigation (2010, methodology): “For instance, in a panel of countries Barro (2000) finds little association between income inequality and economic growth for a broad number of countries.”
Determinants of Economic Growth in a Panel of Countries (2003, methodology): “However, a previous analysis ( Barro [2000] ) found little eect of inequality on growth.”
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth (2014, background): “…1981); by raising saving and investment if rich people save a higher fraction of their income (Kaldor, 1957); and, perhaps especially relevant for poor countries, by allowing at least a few individuals to accumulate the minimum needed to start businesses and get a good education (Barro, 2000).”
Openness and inequality in developing countries: a review of theory and recent evidence (2005, background): “The two exceptions where its null can be rejected are Barro (2000) and Lundberg and Squire (2003). Second, there is conflicting evidence regarding the second hypothesis. Calderon and Chong (2001) find that greater openness does reduce inequality in developing countries.”
Foreign Direct Investment, Inequality, and Growth (2007, methodology): “Our human capital variables are obtained from Barro and Lee’s (2001) dataset. Our measures of human capital (educational) inequality are taken from Castelló and Doménech (2002), and our measure of income inequality, from Deininger and Squire (1996).”
Financial development and income inequality in Pakistan: An application of ARDL approach (2011, background): “Barro (2000) and Li and Zou (2002) investigated the relationship between financial development and income inequality with the battery of other variables.”
Tourism and Economic Growth in Latin American Countries: A Panel Data Approach (2004, methodology): “Unobserved time-specific effects are controlled by 1 Islam (1995) and Barro (2000) 6 using time-period fixed effects.”
Income distribution determinants and public spending efficiency (2010, background): “Studies include notably Fakin and Crombrugghe (1997) for the public sector, Gupta and Verhoeven (2001) for education and health in Africa, Clements (2002) for education in Europe, St.”
Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse: Reconciling a Conundrum (2008, background): “…as suggested by Sokoloff and Engerman (2000), resource abundance can lead to increased inequality and this could harm growth through lower savings or investment rates, lower quality of institutions, creditmarket imperfections, distorting redistribution, or socio-political unrest (Barro, 2000).”
The personal and the factor distributions of income in a cross-section of countries (2007, background): “Source: Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee (2000); version of 25 March 2005.”
Inequality and Growth Revisited (2008, methodology): “My previous study (Barro 2000) used panel data for many countries from 1960 to analyze the two-way interplay between income inequality and economic performance.”