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Explaining Growth: A Contest between Models

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 Bleaney, Michael
Nishiyama, Akira
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Recent contributions to the empirical growth literature show no tendency to convergence in specification, as researchers seek to identify new variables that can account for significant regional effects in earlier work. We conduct non-nested tests between the models of Barro (1997), Easterly and Levine (1997) and Sachs and Warner (1997). The data strongly prefer an encompassing model, but fail to reject any of the candidate models, implying that each model represents a partial truth. We identify a model that includes most (but not all) of the regressors in the candidate models and is robust to the inclusion of regional dummies. Copyright 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Volume (Year): 7 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 (March)
Pages: 43-56
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