Additional Citations for

Proximate Sources of Income Differences

This list only cites papers that are mentioned in the lectures. It is not intended as an extended reading list. For extended readings on many growth-related topics consult Jon Temple's site, Economic Growth Resources., or Chad Jones' evolving reference list.

A. Lots of measurement, little theory.

Bhargava, Alok (2001): "Modeling the effects of health on economic growth." Journal of Health Economics, 20(3):423-440.

Durlauf, Steven N. (2001): "Manifesto for a growth econometrics." Journal of Econometrics, 100(1):65-69.

Fernandez, C., Ley, Eduardo and Steel, Mark F. J. (2001): Model uncertainty in cross-country growth regressions. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(5):563-576.

Hoeting, Jennifer A., et al. (1999): "Bayesian model averaging: a tutorial." Statistical Science, 14(4):382-417.

Levine, Ross and David Renelt (1992): "A sensitivity analysis of cross-country growth regressions." American Economic Review, 82(4):942-963.

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier (1997): "I just ran two million regressions." American Economic Review, 87(2):178-183.

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier, Doppelhofer, Gernot and Miller, Ronald (2004): "Determinants of long-run growth: a Bayesian averaging of classical estimates (BACE) approach." American Economic Review, 94(4):813-835. Link to NBER working paper version.

Tsangarides, Charalambos G. (2004): "A Bayesian approach to model uncertainty." IMF working paper.

B. More theory, a little less measurement.

Dinopoulos, Elias, and Peter Thompson (1999): "Reassessing the empirical validity of the human-capital augmented neoclassical growth model." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9:135-154.

Jones, Charles I., and Robert E. Hall (1999): "Why do some countries produce so much more output per worker than others?", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114:83-116.

Kaldor, Nicholas (1961): "Capital accumulation and economic growth." In F. Lutz and D. Hague, The Theory of Capital. New York: St. Martins Press.

Phelps, Edmund (1961): "The Golden Rule of accumulation: A fable for growthmen." American Economic Review, 51(4):638-643.

Solow, Robert M. (1956): "A contribution to the theory of economic growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 70:65-94.

Solow, Robert (1957): "Technical change and the aggregate production function." Review of Economics and Statistics, 39:312-320. 

Temple, Jonathan (2000): "Growth regressions and what the textbooks don't tell you." Bulletin of Economic Research, 52(3):181-205.