Replication data for: If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

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Project Citation:

Comin, Diego, and Mestieri, Martí. Replication data for: If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114122V1

Project Description

Summary: We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between poor and rich countries have converged, while the intensity of use of adopted technologies of poor countries relative to rich countries has diverged. The evolution of aggregate productivity implied by these trends in technology diffusion resembles the actual evolution of the world income distribution in the last two centuries. Cross-country differences in adoption lags account for a significant part of the cross-country income divergence in the nineteenth century. The divergence in intensity of use accounts for the divergence during the twentieth century.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      N10 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
      N70 Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: General, International, or Comparative
      O14 Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
      O41 One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
      O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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