Department of
Economics
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Maria Muniagurria
6418 Social Science
Phone:263-3865
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Tu 2-3 pm and Th 1-2
pm
Homework Problems
Homework 0
(TYPO fixed on Tu
Jan 31) Due in lecture on Th February 2 Answer key
Homework 1 due in Lecture on Th
February 9 Answer Key
Excel
question (3)
Homework 2 Due at the review
session ( Sun Feb 19 at 1.15 pm, 6203
Soc Sci on drop in Maria's mailbox before then) Answer Key
Homework on Growth and Education (3-5 pages report, 8% of semester grade) Due in Lecture on Tu April 11, Figure source: Benhabib and Speigel (1994 JME)
Homework
Solow with Land and Exhaustible Resources Due in Lecture Tu
May 2 Answer
Key
Model Without Technological Change:
Example 1 (countries differ in rate of
population growth)
Example 2 (countries
differ in saving rates)
Other
Examples (single
country: changes in savings rate and capital gift)Model
With
Exogenous Technological
Change Example
3 (countries differ in initial technology)
Example 4
(countries differ in their savings rates)
Data Analysis Homework
Sets:
Homework Data I
Due Thursday March 9 in Lecture
Sample AK
Stata
Sample AK other
Data
Plotter
Better Histogram Download
Exams
Date
Room
Exam 3
Thursday May
4
Older
Lecture Notes/ Other Notes
Slopes/Logs Examples
(posted 2-19-16)
Handout on Tools Jones 5
Additional Handout on
Jones 5
Handout Solow with
Land
Equations Ch.6 Model
Equations
Ch. 9 Model
Piketty : Capital
in the 21st Century
CUNY
Piketty discussion
Vollrath: Piketty
and Growth Economics
Solow: Piketty's
Capital in the 21st Century
Understanding
Inequality: U
of Chicago November 2015
HANDOUTS/ NOTES/ SIMULATIONS
Handout
from A. Young "The Tyranny of Numbers:Confronting
the Statistical realities of the East Asian Growth
Experience."
Handout
from A. Young "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor and Technical
Change in Hong Kong and
Handout from Jones
Ch.3 "Empirical Applications of Neoclassical Growth Models."
Multiple Regression,
Instrumental Variables (Stock
and Watson)
Selected
sections from "Colonial Origins of Comparative
development....." from Acemoglu,
Johnson and Robinson. Response to
Albouy
DATA SOURCES
Gapminder
Weil's
Economic
Growth Data/Plotter
Penn
World Tables
World Development
Indicators
Diego
Comin's Web Page (tech.
adoption data)
CEPAL
Data (
Excel Simulations of Solow Model (written by Prof. Scott Taylor)
(1)Simulations
Solow
Model with population growth and without technological
change (countries differ in population growth parameter)
(2)Simulations
Solow
Model with population growth and without technological
change (countries differ in savings rate)
(3)Simulations
Solow
Model with population growth and technological change
(countries differ in initial technology parameter A)
(4)Simulations
Solow
Model with population growth and technological change
(countries differ in savings rates)
Additional
Mauritius
: African Sucess Story ,
NBER Digest, May 2011
Technology Diffusion and
Postwar Growth, NBER Digest February 2011
Green Solow
Paper (
Solow
Lecture on Sustainability
Galor: Income Inequality, Human Capital and Development
Albouy, David, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data, 2006 .
Acemoglu, D. Johnson, Robinson, "The Colonial Origins of Comparative development: an Empirical Investigation" , AAE Dec 2001.JSTOR link
http://ssrn.com/abstract=555262
Dahlin, B., “The
Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Theory, Findings
and Policy Implications, Working Paper,
Eaton, J. and S. Kortum, "Trade in Capital Goods" European Economic review (45) 2001 (this is a version of the paper from Kortum's web page, skip pages 13-23)
Easterly and Levine, "Tropics, Germs and Crops: How Endownments Influence Economic Development" , by, NBER Working Paper 9106. Journal of Monetary Economics,50, January 2003. Science Direct Link (smaller print)
Greenwald and Stiglitz: Helping
Infant
Economies Grow: Foundations of Trade Policies for
Developing Countries,
AER, May 2006
Sukiassyan, Grigory, "Inequality and Growth: What does the Transition Economy Data Say?", Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007 (selected pages)
Jones, C. "R&D- Based Models of Economic Growth" , by JPE August 1995.
Kremer, Michael Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries," (with Paul Glewwe), forthcoming in Handbook on the Economics of Education
Krueger, Alan B. and Lindahl, Mikael, "Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?" (January 2000). Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section Working Paper No. 429. Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=223589
Prescott and Parente , Barriers to Riches (selected pages )
Subramanian, Arvind and Roy,
Devesh, "Who Can Explain The
Mauritian Miracle: Meade, Romer,
Sachs or Rodrik?" (August
2001). IMF Working Paper No. 01/116
Taylor, A., "Three Phases of Argentine Economic Growth" , by Alan Taylor, NBER Historial Paper # 60 , 1994
Young, A., "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore," by Alwyn Young, 1992 NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
Young, A., "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience" QJE, 1995.
Additional
items/Interesting Papers
Comments
from Krugman and Stiglitz on
East Asian Growth.
"Roots
of
Development," The Economist, October 2002.
"International Trade and Domestic Institutions: the
medieval response to globalization" Dan
Trefler's presentation
Asian
Growth
and African Development," Michael Kremer and
Marcos Chamon, forthcoming in
AER Papers and Proceedings
The
Growth
Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive
Development (Commission on Growth and
Development, 2008)
Links:
Lecture Notes Graduate Course on Economic Growth by Acemoglu, Daron. 14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2009. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu . License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
The World Bank: Economic Growth Research Page
Michele
Boldrin Notes on Growth
and Development