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Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects
Journal of Economic Literature, 2021 Probably because of their interpretability and transparent nature, synthetic controls have become widely applied in empirical research in economics and the social sciences.
Alberto Abadie
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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
The American Economic Review, 2020 Long-run growth in many models is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that research effort is rising substantially while ...
N. Bloom +3 more
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Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16377 AUGUST 2023 Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?* This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in ...
Rainer Kotschy, D. Bloom
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Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth
The American Economic Review, 2023 We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War–era space race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending.
S. Kantor, A. Whalley
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The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force, and Productivity
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016 Population aging is expected to slow US economic growth. We use variation in the predetermined component of population aging across states to estimate the impact of aging on growth in GDP per capita for 1980–2010. We find that each 10 percent increase in
Nicole Maestas +2 more
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Privatization and productivity in China
The Rand Journal of Economics, 2021 We study how changes in ownership a¤ect the productivity of rms. Privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) was a major economic reform during Chinas rapid growth, but its true impact remains controversial.
Yuyu Chen +3 more
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What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence?
Journal of Economic Literature, 2018 We examine the record of cross-country growth over the past fifty years and ask if developing countries have made progress on closing the income gap between their per capita incomes and those in the advanced economies.
P. Johnson, C. Papageorgiou
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Income Differences, Productivity, and Input-Output Networks
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022 We study the importance of input-output (IO) linkages and sectoral productivity (TFP) in determining cross-country income differences. We find that while highly connected sectors are more productive than the typical sector in poor countries, the opposite
Harald Fadinger +2 more
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The Sources of Capital Misallocation
The American Economic Review, 2019 We develop a methodology to disentangle sources of capital “mis-allocation,” i.e., dispersion in value-added/capital. It measures the contributions of technological/informational frictions and a rich class of firm-specific factors.
J. David, Venky Venkateswaran
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Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?
Journal of Economic Literature, 2020 We examine the contribution of different explanations to the slowdown of labor productivity. Comparing the post-2005 period with the preceding decade for five advanced economies, we seek to explain a slowdown of 0.8 to 1.8 pp.
I. Goldin +3 more
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