Browsing by Subject "Growth"

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    • Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs 
      Puentes Encina, Esteban; Wang, Fan; Behrman, Jere R.; Cunha, Flavio; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Adair, Linda; Borja, Judith; Martorell, Reynaldo; Stein, Aryeh D. (Elsevier, 2016)
      We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines. Using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity and estimating ...
    • Economic growth in Latin America: structural breaks or fundamentals? 
      Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo; Fuentes, J. Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2006-12)
      Despite having accumulated physical and human capital at significant rates, Latin America’s growth has been generally disappointing. Successful growth episodes have been accompanied by surges in TFP, sound and stable ...
    • Micro Efficiency and Aggregate Growth in Chile 
      Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006)
      Using plant-level data on Chilean manufacturing firms for the 1980-2001 period, we estimate and characterize disaggregate total factor productivity. We use these estimates to study the microeconomic sources of aggregate ...
    • Productivity and saving channels of economic growth as latent variables: an application of confirmatory ... 
      Bebczuk, Ricardo N. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)
      When it comes to measure the sources of growth and draw economic policy conclusions, economists rely on growth accounting. According to this approach, per capita growth is explained by two sources: capital accumulation ...
    • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: complementary reforms to address microeconomic distortions 
      Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Loayza, Norman; Piguillem, Facundo (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      This paper links microeconomic rigidities and technological adoption to propose a partial explanation for the observed differences in income per capita across countries. The paper first presents a neoclassical general ...