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Heterogeneous convergence

Name: Heterogeneous convergence
Keywords: O18 - Urban, Aggregate Productivity, Cross-Country Output Convergence, O40, and Transportation Analysis, O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, O41 - One, O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth, Economic Growth, Rural

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Research , Preprint , Report 01 Jan 2007 Germany Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Economics Letters, volume 120, pages 238-241 (issn: 0165-1765,

Authors: Young, Andrew; Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel;

doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.017 , 10.2139/ssrn.947843

handle: 10419/95996 , 10419/206832

Heterogeneous convergence

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Abstract

We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

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Germany

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Keywords

O18 - Urban, Aggregate Productivity, Cross-Country Output Convergence, O40, and Transportation Analysis, O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, O41 - One, O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth, Economic Growth, Rural, Environmental Issues, H70, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, H50 - General, O11, ddc:330, O40 - General, O51, Two, O18, Regional, and Multisector Growth Models, Conditional Convergence, Regionale Einkommensverteilung, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, O51 - U.S., Canada, U.S. County Level Data, Development, Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, County Level Data, O43 - Institutions and Growth, H70 - General, H50, USA, and Changes, US County Level Data, Infrastructure, Wirtschaftswachstum, R11, Regionale Disparität, Housing, Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, Heterogeneity, U.S. County Level Data, Economic Growth; Conditional Convergence; County Level Data, R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Heterogeneity, jel: jel:H70, jel: jel:O51, jel: jel:O11, jel: jel:O18, jel: jel:O41, jel: jel:O40, jel: jel:O47, jel: jel:H50, jel: jel:R11

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