Middle-income traps and complexity in economic development

Productivity, Economic Growth and Middle Income Traps: Implications for China

Economic disparities in middle childhood development: does income matter?

A large literature has documented the influence of family economic resources on child development, yet income's effects in middle childhood have been understudied. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3,551), the author examined the influence of family income in early and middle childhood on academic skills and behavior problems during middle childhood. Early childhood...

Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality

— A country’s mix of products predicts its subsequent pattern of diversification and economic growth. But does this product mix also predict income inequality? Here we combine methods from econometrics, network science, and economic complexity to show that countries exporting complex products—as measured by the Economic Complexity Index—have lower levels of income inequality than countries expo...

Human Development Traps and Economic Growth

Human capabilities play an important part in the emergence from stagnation to modern economic growth. Historical and macroeconomic studies show substantial effects for nutrition and health on income levels and, for poorer countries, on rates of growth, implying divergence. Cross-country examination of the joint dynamics of life expectancy and income shows that a stratified emergence from stagna...

Health, Income and Economic Development

I thank Angus Deaton and two referees for helpful comments about this work, and Simon le Roux for help with translations from Afrikaans. Abstract There is a strong positive relationship between income and health throughout the world. If part of this association represents a causal effect from income to health, then the maintenance and support of incomes becomes a potential policy instrument for...