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Understanding the Sources of Growth Heterogeneity
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Understanding the Sources of Growth Heterogeneity. |
| 개인저자 | Zidan, Moheb. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. Economics. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 133 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-01A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392296288 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-01, Section: A.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisor: Durlauf, Steven |
| 이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
| 요약 | Chapter one takes a new approach to understanding the sources of regional growth heterogeneity. I integrate model averaging and decomposition methods to understand how cross-country growth differences arise from differences in explanatory variables versus differences in coefficients. My approach allows the growth of different economies to follow distinct processes and accounts for model uncertainty. My results reject the assumption of homogeneous coefficients that is commonly used in the growth literature. Factors that appear important in explaining growth heterogeneity in one region may not necessarily matter in other regions. Chapter two examines the foreign aid and economic growth relationship and considers the choice of the measure of aid as a source of model uncertainty: I examine both the level of aid and the share of aid in GDP. My results indicate that the level of aid has a positive and significant relationship with growth, especially when combined with good economic policy. In contrast, the use of the ratio aid to GDP produces estimates that are not consistent and not robust to sample changes. I attribute this difference to the idea that the level of aid may provide information regarding the links that recipient country has to the donor which were not captured by measuring aid as a fraction of GDP. Chapter three is joint with Kindig D. and J. Nobles. We examine the required improvement in US life expectancy to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030, and the plausibility of achieving this rate. Our demographic analysis shows that to achieve the UN projected mortality estimates for Western Europe in 2030, the US life expectancy must grow at 0.32% a year. This rate has precedent, even in low-mortality populations. Over 204 country-periods examined, nearly half exhibited life-expectancy growth greater than 0.32%. We conclude that achieving necessary growth in life expectancy over the next 15 years despite historical precedent will be challenging. Much all-cause mortality is structured decades earlier and, at present, older-age mortality reductions in the US are decelerating. Addressing mortality decline at all ages will require enhanced political will and a strong commitment to equity improvement in the US population. |
| 일반주제명 | Economics. Public health. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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