Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People’s Republic of China during the Reform Period

By Alwyn Young. Journal of Political Economy, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Estimation of China's provincial capital stock (1952–2004) with applications (2008, methodology): “Perkins (1998), Woo (1998), Wang and Fan (2000), and Wang and Yao (2001) all assume a 5% rate of depreciation, while Young (2000) assumes 6%.”
• New Capital Estimates for China (2005, background): “63 Alwyn Young (2003), another author who works with economy-wide values, does not provide year-by-year data on his economy-wide capital stock series.”
• Digital Economy Development, Industrial Structure Upgrading and Green Total Factor Productivity: Empirical Evidence from China’s Cities (2022, methodology): “The capital stock of the base period refers to the method of Young (2003) [49], Zhang Jun et al.”
• A Quantitative Analysis of China's Structural Transformation (2006, methodology): “With our measures of real sectoral investment from 1978 to 2003 in hand, we can calculate the capital stock using the perpetual inventory method and a 5 percent depreciation rate (as in Young (2003)).”
• The Return to Capital in China (2006, neutral): “We describe each in turn.”
• China’s Capital Stock Series by Region and Sector (2016, methodology): “Young (2003) and Islam et al (2006) followed this approach for their work on China.”
• Fear of China: Is there a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America? (2004, neutral): “Young (2003), for instance, using official national accounts data, estimates an impressive 3.0 percent per year TFP growth in 1978-98.”
• The factor income distribution in China: 1978–2007 (2010, background): “In the literature of growth accounting, the measurement of factor shares are repeatedly visited (Ezaki and Sun 1999; Wang and Yao 2003; Young 2003).”