Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26109 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2064
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive in important ways to the choice of data. Previous warnings against using data adjusted to increase cross-country comparability to study within-country patterns over time (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions.
JEL: 
C82
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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