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How to do Xtabond2: An Introduction to Difference and System GMM in Stata
The difference and system generalized method-of-moments estimators, developed by Holtz-Eakin, Newey, and Rosen (1988, Econometrica 56: 1371–1395); Arellano and Bond (1991, Review of Economic Studies…
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Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth
Recent research yields widely divergent estimates of the cross‐country relationship between foreign aid receipts and economic growth. We re‐analyse data from the three most influential published…
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Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries
In this paper, genuine savings rates in developing countries, a formal model of green national accounting demonstrates that 'genuine' saving, net saving less the value of resource depletion and…
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Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth
Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely…
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Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of people in…
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Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth
Concern has intensified in recent years that many instrumental variables used in widely-cited growth regressions may be invalid, weak, or both. Attempts to remedy this general problem remain…
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The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the U.S. Border
This paper compares the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States-controlling for country of birth, country of education, years…
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Why did the Tariff–Growth Correlation Change after 1950?
This article uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World War II, while they have been associated with slow growth thereafter. The paper…
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The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Growing concern that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be achieved by 2015 should not obscure the bigger picture that development progress has been occurring at unprecedented levels…
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The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective
Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing…
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