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Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

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Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

Stanford University Working Paper No. 98-007

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Dec 1996

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

NBER Working Paper No. w6564

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2022

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

Posted: 23 Jul 1998

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Apr 1998

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Measuring the Social Return to R&D

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 May 1997

Charles I. Jones and John C. Williams

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Convergence Revisited

Stanford Working Paper #96-006

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Dec 1996

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Levels of Economic Activity Across Countries

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Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Apr 1998

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Fundamental Determinants of Output Per Worker Across Countries

Stanford Economics Working Paper No. 97-021

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Mar 1998

Charles I. Jones and Robert E. Hall

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University

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Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth

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Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth

Stanford University Economics Working Paper 97-018

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Apr 1998

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w6285

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share of GDP Risen so Much?

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Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share of GDP Risen so Much?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Nov 2002

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share Fo GDP Risen so Much?

NBER Working Paper No. w9325

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Weak Link Theory of Economic Development

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Research Paper WP No. 04/2007

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Aug 2007

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Facts of Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w21142

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Productivity of Nations

NBER Working Paper No. w5812

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 21 May 2022

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Sources of U.S. Economic Growth in a World of Ideas

Stanford University Economics Working Paper No. 97-015

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Mar 1998

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w23928

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2022

Philippe Aghion, Benjamin F. Jones and Charles I. Jones

College de France and London School of Economics and Political Science, Fellow, Northwestern University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

NBER Working Paper No. w23782

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022

Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb

Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University - Department of Economics

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12294

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Sep 2017

Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb

Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University - Department of Economics

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Growth and Ideas

NBER Working Paper No. w10767

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 30 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time

NBER Working Paper No. w16352

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Department of Economics

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The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Sep 2004

Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w15094

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones and Paul M. Romer

Stanford Graduate School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Estimating and Simulating a Sird Model of Covid-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities

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Estimating and Simulating a Sird Model of Covid-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w27128

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 May 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Charles I. Jones

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-93

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Jun 2019

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University

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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w18693

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2022

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Department of Economics

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Too Much of a Good Thing? the Economics of Investment in R&D

NBER Working Paper No. w7283

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Oct 1995 Last Revised: 28 May 2022

Charles I. Jones and John C. Williams

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

NBER Working Paper No. w7375

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Feb 2000 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w20742

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w16742

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Value of Information in Growth and Development

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Research Paper WP No. 03/2006

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Aug 2007

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Insurance and Incentives for Medical Innovation

NBER Working Paper No. w12080

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 May 2006 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022

Alan M. Garber, Charles I. Jones and Paul M. Romer

Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford Graduate School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data

NBER Working Paper No. w26260

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones and Christopher Tonetti

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University

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Macroeconomic Outcomes and Covid-19: A Progress Report

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Macroeconomic Outcomes and Covid-19: A Progress Report

NBER Working Paper No. w28004

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2022

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Charles I. Jones

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Steady-State Growth Theorem: A Comment on Uzawa (1961)

NBER Working Paper No. w10921

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 07 May 2022

Charles I. Jones and Dean Scrimgeour

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Colgate University - Economics Department

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Intermediate Goods, Weak Links, and Superstars: A Theory of Economic Development

NBER Working Paper No. w13834

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

NBER Working Paper No. w26651

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Future of U.S. Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w19830

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022

John G. Fernald and Charles I. Jones

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Life and Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w17094

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 May 2011 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Shape of Production Function and the Direction of Technical Change

NBER Working Paper No. w10457

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 May 2004 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Trading Off Consumption and Covid-19 Deaths

NBER Working Paper No. w27340

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2022

Robert E. Hall, Charles I. Jones and Peter Klenow

Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University

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The Upcoming Slowdown in U.S. Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w6284

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w29539

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2022

Jean-Felix Brouillette, Charles I. Jones and Peter Klenow

Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University

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A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w20637

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 23 May 2021

Charles I. Jones and Jihee Kim

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

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Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas

NBER Working Paper No. w25725

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Past and Future of Economic Growth: A Semi-Endogenous Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w29126

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail

NBER Working Paper No. w28340

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2022

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement Across Industries and Countries

Posted: 24 Feb 1997

Andrew B. Bernard and Charles I. Jones

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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