A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

We examine the record of cross-country growth over the past fifty years and ask if
developing countries have made progress on closing the income gap between their per …

We employ a structural threshold regression methodology to investigate the heterogeneous
effects of debt on growth using public debt as a threshold variable as well as several other …

This article investigates the strength of empirical evidence for various growth theories when
there is model uncertainty with respect to the correct growth model. Using model averaging …

The presence or absence of convergence between rich and poor countries represents one
of the most important questions in the new growth economics. New growth theories have …

Case studies demonstrate that urban greenhouse gas emissions are driven by socio-
economic, climatic and urban-form specific characteristics. But neither the interdependence …

This paper introduces the structural threshold regression (STR) model that allows for an
endogenous threshold variable as well as for endogenous regressors. This model provides …

This study departs from extant work on diversity and development in several respects. Using
DHS data from a large number of developing countries, we adopt four human development …

Following the debate on the limits to financial deepening, we re-assess the finance-growth
relationship employing a broad-based measure of financial development and controlling for …

This paper studies estimation in threshold regression with endogeneity in the regressors
and thresholding variable. Three key results differ from those in regular models. First, both …