This paper considers the argument about whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other...

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes...

Prehistoric measures of biogeography are used as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the...

Some recent empirical studies deny any direct effect of geography on development and conclude that institutions dominate all other potential...

We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality within a...

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady-state output per person...

Most empirical studies of long-run growth refer to one of the two seminal contributions by Robert Solow in 1956 and 1957. His work shows that...

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as...

The research is designed to undertake a policy-oriented, multi-dimensional study of inequality in the EU and in other advanced countries. It...

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as...

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The...

We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition...

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country...

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm...

Factor endowments are usually taken as given in trade theoretical analyses of technological change. We use the Deardorff (1974) diagram to...

Economists tend to exalt the virtues of free international trade, while politicians are more skeptical. This paper suggests that this is the...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth...

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) demonstrate that estimation of the standard adjustment model with country-fixed and time-fixed...

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes...

We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition claims...