The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 41-53 (13 pages) The negative health effects of smoking are substantial and well documented. There are, however, few studies that ...

It has been claimed that over 40% of China's post-reform GDP growth could be attributed to growth in total factor productivity. This column argues that this claim is based on a mis-specified model ...

This paper investigates the impact of public capital on private sector output by testing and estimating an aggregate production function for the U.S. economy over the postwar period augmented to ...