Introduction

This is the home page for Econ C32, Economics of Growth. The class meets on Thursdays 3-5 in the Watson Lecture Theatre. Some of the material below is in Adobe Acrobat format. Use the link below to get the Acrobat Reader if you have not installed the current version.

Class Materials

• Syllabus
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• Problem Set 1
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  Solutions for Problem Set 1
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• Problem Set 2
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• Solutions for Problem Set 2
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• Problem Set 3
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• Problem Set 4
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• Problem Set 4 Solutions
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• Affiliate Exam
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Lecture Notes

Notice that the existing notes are continually updated. Please check from time to time whether you have the most recent version.

• Notes on Growth Accounting
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• Notes on the Solow Model
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• Notes on the Lucas Model
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Spreadsheets

• The Labor Share in the U.K.
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• Growth Accounting for the U.K.
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• Growth Accounting with Human Capital: Comparison of India, Korea, and U.K.
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• The Solow Model
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• The Lucas Model (Human Capital with Constant Returns)
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• The Malthus Model
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• World Population Growth from Stone Age
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• Population Growth and Economic Growth in the European World and Elsewhere
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• Problem Set 4 Solutions
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• Malthus to Solow
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• Malthus to Solow with Food Requirement
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Data Sources

• Penn World Tables
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• Barro-Lee Education Data
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• Cross-Country Growth Data Set
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Readings

• The World Income Distribution:
  
  
  • Steven Durlauf and Danny Quah. 1998. The New Empirics of Economic Growth.
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  • Charles Jones. 1997. On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution.
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  • Lant Pritchett. 1997. Divergence: Big Time.
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  • Danny Quah. 1996. Twin Peaks: Growth and Convergence in Models of Distribution Dynamics.
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  • Danny Quah. 2000. Cross Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics.
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  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2002. The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions).
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• Education and Growth:
  
  
  • Gregory Mankiw, David Romer, and David Weil. 1992. A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth.
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  • Mark Bils and Peter Klenow. 1998. Does Schooling Cause Growth?
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• Capital Flows and Income Differences:
  
  
  • Robert Lucas. 1990. Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?
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• Growth Regressions:
  
  
  • Robert J. Barro. 1991. Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries.
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  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 1997. I Just Ran Four Million Regressions.
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• Explaining TFP Differences:
  
  
  • Michael Kremer. 1993. The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.
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  • Stephen Parente and Edward Prescott. 1999. Monopoly Rights: A Barrier to Riches.
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• Economic Growth: The Long View
  
  
  • Michael Kremer. 1993. Population Growth and Technological Change, One Million B.C. to 1990.
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  • Gary Hansen and Edward Prescott. 1998. Malthus to Solow.
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  • Oded Galor and David Weil. 1998. Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond.
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