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The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country

Al‐Abri, Almukhtar S. - 2018

all, on government spending, which, in turn, has an insignificant impact on GDP. The paper discusses some policy …

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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Clark, Andrew E. - 2011

Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …

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Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth : Theory and Evidence from India

Das, Pranab Kumar - 2016

the main pillars of growth of human capital in the country, on the per capita GDP growth rate, the working age population …

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E. - 2013

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...

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Subjective Well‐Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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Cross Sections are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …

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Happiness and Economic Growth : Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute … increase in GDP per capita will have a bigger impact on SWB in a poorer than a richer country. In fact there is no significant … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing …

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