Since the seminal contribution of N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer and David N. Weil in
1992 the growth empirics literature has used increasingly sophisticated methods to select …

The paper conducts a qualitative narrative appraisal of the existing empirical literature on
the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in developing and developed …

Economists' understanding of long-run economic development has greatly improved thanks
to the historical statistics compiled by the late Angus Maddison. Yet his method for …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

The method of model averaging has become an important tool to deal with model
uncertainty, for example in situations where a large amount of different theories exist, as are …

Average incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as
overall average incomes. This is because, in a global dataset spanning 121 countries over …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of
history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on …

This paper uses historical fluctuations in temperature within countries to identify its effects on
aggregate economic outcomes. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …

GDP per capita and household survey means present conflicting pictures of the rate of
economic development in emerging countries. One of the areas in which the national …

We develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries
that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time. Cross …