1 Week 1:Development Accounting (F)
1.1 The data to be explained
McGrattan and Shmitz: "Explaining Cross-Country Income Differences," Minneapolis FED
Link: http://minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr250.html
Jones: "On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997, Vol. 11, pp. 19-36.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0895-3309%28199722%2911%3A3%3C19%3AOTEOTW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
Pritchett: "Understanding Patterns of Economic Growth: Searching for Hills among Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains." World Bank Economic Review. Vol. 14 (2). p 221-50. May 2000.
Pritchett: "Divergence, Big Time," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997, Vol. 11, pp. 19-36. 3-17.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0895-3309%28199722%2911%3A3%3C3%3ADBT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
1.2 It's K.
Mankiw, Romer, and Weil: "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 2, 1992, 407-437. (Quick Refresher).
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0033-5533%28199205%29107%3A2%3C407%3AACTTEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
Young (1995): "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110,3, 641-680.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0033-5533%28199508%29110%3A3%3C641%3ATTONCT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
1.3 No, it's A.
Hall and Jones: "Why do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output per Worker than Others?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, 83-116. (Sections I and II).
Klenow and Rodriguez-Clare: "The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has it Gone Too Far?" NBER macro annual 1997, 73-114. (Including Discussions).
Hendricks: "Cross-Country Income Differences: Technology Gaps or Human Capital Gaps? Evidence from Immigrant Earnings" unpublished, Arizona State University, 1999.
Link: http://www.cob.asu.edu/ecn/papers/wp1998/wp98_4.pdf
Parente and Prescott: Barriers to Riches, MIT Press, 2000. Chapters 1-5.
1.4 Factor-Specific Differences in Productivity
Caselli, F., and J. Coleman (2000): "The World Technology Frontier," unpublished, Harvard University.
Link: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/caselli/papers/wtf1.pdf
Trefler, D. (1993): "International Factor Price Differences: Leontief was Right!" Journal of Political Economy, 101(6), 961-987.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0022-3808%28199312%29101%3A6%3C961%3AIFPDLW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
2 Week 2: Factor-Bias in Technological Progress (R)
Acemoglu, Daron (2001). "Directed Technical Change," NBER working paper no. 8287, May.
Link: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8287
3 Week 3: R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth (R)
Barro, R. and X. Sala-i-Martin, "Technogical Change: Models with Improvements in the Quality of Products," draft of Ch. 7 of 2nd edition of Economic Growth.
Aghion, Philippe, Christopher Harris, Peter Howitt, and John Vickers (2000). "Competition, Imitation, and Growth with Step-by-Step Innovation," unpublished, University College London, February.
Link: http://econ.pstc.brown.edu/faculty/howitt/publication/recent.html
Dinopoulos, Elias and Peter Thompson (1998). "Schumpeterian Growth without Scale Effects," Journal of Economic Growth. Vol 3, 4, 313-335. Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:3239/issn/1381-4338/contents
Peretto, Pietro (1998). "Technological Change and Population Growth," Journal of Economic Growth. Vol 3, 4, 283-311. Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:3239/issn/1381-4338/contents
Young, Alwyn (1998). "Growth without Scale Effects," Journal of Political Economy, 106 (1), 41-63.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0022-3808%28199802%29106%3A1%3C41%3AGWSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
Jones, Charles I. (1995). "R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy, 103, August, 759-784.
Please refer to the Documents folder on the class web page.
Jones, Charles I. (1999). "Growth: With or Without Scale Effects," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 107, May.
Segerstrom, Paul (1998). "Endogenous Growth Without Scale Effects," American Economic Review, 88 (5), December, 1290-1310.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0002-8282%28199812%2988%3A5%3C1290%3AEGWSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
Howitt, P. (1999): "Endogenous growth and cross-country income differences," AER, September 2000.
4 Week 4: IMF (R)
Barro, Robert and Jong-Wha Lee (2001). "IMF Programs: Who Is Chosen and What Are the Effects?" unpublished, Harvard University, November.
5 Week 5:Vested Interests and Technology Adoption (F)
Krusell, Per; Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor. Vested Interests in a Positive Theory of Stagnation and Growth. The Review of Economic Studies. Vol. 63 (2). p 301-29. April 1996.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0034-6527%28199604%2963%3A2%3C301%3AVIIAPT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
Parente, Stephen L; Prescott, Edward C. Barriers to Riches. MIT Press, 2000. Chapters 6, 7*, 8*, and 9.
Clark, Gregory (1987), "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills," Journal of Economic History 47, 141-173.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198703%2947%3A1%3C141%3AWITWWD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
Schmitz, James (2001), "What Determines Labor Productivity? Lessons from the Dramatic Recovery of the U.S. and Canadian Iron-ore Industries." Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Department Staff Report 286.
Link: http://minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr286.html
Clark and Feenstra (2001): "Technology in the Great Divergence." NBER WP 8596.
Link: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8596
Acemoglu and Robinson (2000): "Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development," AER Papers and Proceedings, 90(2), 126-130.
6 Week 6: Trust (F)
Putnam, R. (1993): Making Democracy Work. Princeton University Press. Chapters 4 and 5.
Knack, Stephen and Keefer, Philip (1997). "Does social capital have an economic payoff? A cross-country investigation," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 112(4), 1251-1288.
Glaeser, Laibson, Sheinkman, and Soutter (2000); "Measuring Trust." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 65, 811-846.
Alesina and La Ferrara (2001); "Who Trusts Others?" (forthcoming), Journal of Public Economics.
Link: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/pdf-papers/trustcepr.pdf
Karlan, Dean (2001). "Social Capital and Group Banking." unpublished, MIT.
Link: http://web.mit.edu/spencer/www/soccappaper.pdf
La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A. and Vishny, R. (1997). "Trust in large organizations," American Economic Review, 87(2), 333-338.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0002-8282%28199705%2987%3A2%3C333%3ATILO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
Temple, Jonathan and Johnson, Paul A. (1998). "Social capability and economic growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 113(3), 965-990.
7 Week 7:Technology Diffusion (R)
7.1 Theory
Acemoglu, Daron and Fabrizio Zilibotti (2001). "Productivity Differences," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, 563-606.
Link: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/files/pubs/techtrans_final.pdf
Barro, Robert and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1997). "Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth," Journal of Economic Growth, 1, 1-26.
http://lib2.harvard.edu:3239/issn/1381-4338/contents
Krugman, P. (1979). "A Model of Innovation, Technology Transfer, and the World Distribution of Income," Journal of Political Economy, 87, 2, 253-66.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0022-3808%28197904%2987%3A2%3C253%3AAMOITT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
Diwan, I. and Rodrik, Dani (1991). "Patents, Appropriate Technology, and North-South Trade," Journal of International Economics, 30, 27-47.
7.2 Evidence
Coe, David T., Elhanan Helpman, and Alexander W. Hoffmaister (1997), "North-South R&D Spillovers," Economic Journal, 107, 134-149.
Caselli and Coleman (2000): "Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers," unpublished, Harvard.
Link: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/caselli/papers/cctd.pdf
Coe, David T. and Elhanan Helpman (1995): "International R&D Spillovers," European Economic Review 39,859-887.
Link: https://www.pin1.harvard.edu/pin/default.asp?__authen_application=HUL_ACC_MGMT_SVC&__hulaccess_gateway=ezproxy&__hulaccess_resource=deeplnk2&__hulaccess_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%3A80%2Fscience%3F_ob%3DMImg%26_imagekey%3DB6V64-3YRSMDP-16-1%26_cdi%3D5804%26_orig%3Dbrowse%26_coverDate%3D05%2F31%2F1995%26_sk%3D999609994%26wchp%3DdGLSlV-lSzBS%26_acct%3DC000014438%26_version%3D1%26_userid%3D209690%26md5%3D3ffd02094329cd8bc489981638a634b1%26ie%3Df.pdf&__hulaccess_agent=Mozilla%2F4.08+%5Ben%5D+%28Win95%3B+U+%3BNav%29&__hulaccess_referer=-&__hulaccess_ip=140.247.103.80&__hulaccess_cookie=ok
Keller, W (1998): "Are International R&D Spillovers Trade Related? Analyzing Spillovers Among Randomly Matched Trade Partners." European Economic Review, 42, 1469-1481.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2316/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V64-3V607BB-4-W&_cdi=5804&_orig=browse&_coverDate=09%2F01%2F1998&_sk=999579991&wchp=dGLSzS-lSzBk&_acct=C000014438&_version=1&_userid=209690&md5=201e8b22f965ddd666fdf824e478a853&ie=f.pdf
Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum (1996), "Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD," Journal of International Economics 40, 251-278.
Link: http://lib.harvard.edu:2316/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V6D-3VV4398-1-1&_cdi=5812&_orig=browse&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F1996&_sk=999599996&wchp=dGLSzV-lSzBS&_acct=C000014438&_version=1&_userid=209690&md5=9a25545a42005e353955bedd937674ce&ie=f.pdf
Bin Xu (JDE- Aug.2000): "Multinational enterprises, technology diffusion, and host country productivity growth".
Link: http://lib.harvard.edu:2316/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VBV-40NNKMC-8-4&_cdi=5936&_orig=browse&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2000&_sk=999379997&wchp=dGLSzS-lSzBk&_acct=C000014438&_version=1&_userid=209690&md5=34ec1fcfdc5c6b6188f05cc9ae688cb9&ie=f.pdf
Jaumotte, Florence (1999). "Technological Catch-up and the Growth Process," unpublished, Harvard University, November.
Link: Please refer to the documents folder on the class webpage.
Alcala and Ciccone (2001): "Trade and Productivity." CEPR Discussion Paper 3095.
Link: www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP3095.asp
8 Week 8:Ethnic Conflict (F)
8.1 Models of Ethnic Conflict
Caselli and Coleman (2002): "On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict." Unpublished. Harvard.
Grossman and Gershenson (2000): "Civil Conflict: Ended or Never Ending?", Journal of Conflict Resolution, 44(6), 807-821.
Link:https://www.pin1.harvard.edu/pin/default.asp?__authen_application=HUL_ACC_MGMT_SVC&__hulaccess_gateway=ezproxy&__hulaccess_resource=deeplnk1&__hulaccess_url=http%3A%2F%2Ffirstsearch.oclc.org%3A80%2FWebZ%2FFSFETCH%3Ffetchtype%3Dfullrecord%3Asessionid%3Dsp03sw01-34278-cwvfj1la-d3penm%3Aentitypagenum%3D3%3A0%3Arecno%3D6%3Aresultset%3D3%3Aformat%3DFI%3Anext%3Dhtml%2Frecord.html%3Abad%3Derror%2Fbadfetch.html%3A%3Aentitytoprecno%3D6%3Aentitycurrecno%3D6%3Anumrecs%3D1&__hulaccess_agent=Mozilla%2F4.08+%5Ben%5D+%28Win95%3B+U+%3BNav%29&__hulaccess_referer=-&__hulaccess_ip=140.247.103.80&__hulaccess_cookie=ok
McDermott (1997): "Exploitation and Growth." Journal of Economic Growth. September.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:3239/issn/1381-4338/contents
8.2 Consequences of Ethnic Conflict
Easterly, William and Levine, Ross (1997). "Africa's growth tragedy: policies and ethnic divisions." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, November, 1203-1250.
Miguel, Edward (2000): "Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya," unpublished, Berkeley..
Link: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/users/emiguel/miguel_tribes.pdf
Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly (1999). "Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions." Quarterly Journal of Economics. Vol. 114 (4). p 1243-84. November 1999.
Alesina and La Ferrara (2000): "Participation in Heterogeneous Communities." Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 115 (3). p 847-904. August 2000.
9 Week 9: Religion (R)
Barro, Robert and Rachel McCleary (2001). "Religion, Economy, and Society in an International Panel," unpublished, Harvard University, October.
Chaves, Mark and David Cann (1992). "Regulation, Pluralism, and Religious Market Structure," Rationality and Society, July, 272-290.
American Religion Data Archive (2002). Available on the Internet at www.thearda.com.
World Values Survey (2002). Available on the Internet at wvs.isr.umich.edu .
International Social Survey Programme (2002). Available on the Internet at www.issp.org/data.htm.
Inglehart, Ronald and Wayne Baker (2000). "Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values," American Sociological Review, Vol.65, p 19-55.
Iannaccone, Laurence (1998). "The Economics of Religion: A Survey of Recent Work," Journal of Economic Literature, September, 1465-1496.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0022-0515%28199809%2936%3A3%3C1465%3AITTEOR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
Sacerdote, Bruce and Ed Glaeser (2001). "Education and Religion," NBER working paper no. 8080, January. Link: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8080
10 Week 10:Geography (F)
10.1 Geography in Growth Regressions
Andrew D. Mellinger, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and John L. Gallup. "Climate, Water Navigability, and Economic Development," CID Working Paper no. 24, September 1999.
Link: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/024.htm
William A. Masters and Margaret S. McMillan. "Climate and Scale In Economic Growth," CID Working Paper no. 48, June 2000.
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/048.htm
Gallup and Sachs (2000): "The Economic Burden of Malaria," CID Working Paper #52.
Link: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/052.htm
10.2 Geography and World History
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001). "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigaton." American Economic Review, 91(5), 1369-1401.
Sokoloff, K. and S. Engerman (2000): "Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), 217-232.
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001). "Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the World Income Distribution." MIT, unpublished.
Link: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/files/papers/qjerffinal1.pdf
10.3 Geography and US History
Caselli and Coleman (2001): "The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: A Reinterpretation," Journal of Political Economy, 109(3), 584-616.
Link: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JPE/journal/issues/v109n3/019301/019301.web.pdf
11 Week 11: Growth and Laibson (R)
Barro, Robert (1999). "Ramsey Meets Laibson in the Neoclassical Growth Model," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November.
Phelps, Edmund S. and Robert A. Pollak (1968). "On Second-Best National Saving and Game-Equilibrium Growth," Review of Economic Studies, April, 185-199.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0034-6527%28196804%2935%3A2%3C185%3AOSNSAG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
Pollak, Robert A (1968). "Consistent Planning," Review of Economic Studies, April, 201-208.
Link: http://lib2.harvard.edu:2416/sici?sici=0034-6527%28196804%2935%3A2%3C201%3ACP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
Laibson, David (1997). "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 443-477.
12 Week 12: Growth and Calvet-Angeletos (R)
Angeletos, George Marios and Laurent Calvet (2001). "Investment, Growth, and the Business Cycle with Incomplete Risk Sharing," unpublished, MIT, November.
Link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=254709
13 Week 13: We Take Requests
