David N. Weil

TL;DR: The authors examined whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living, and they showed that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human as well as physical capital provides an excellent description of the cross-country data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a unied growth model that captures the historical evolution of population, technology, and output, which encompasses the endogenous transition between three regimes that have characterized economic development.

TL;DR: A statistical framework is developed that uses satellite data on lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurementerror in national income accounts.

TL;DR: In this paper, satellite data on lights at night is used to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement errors in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth, where household fertility is determined by relative wages of women and men, and showed that higher fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to women's labor input than men's, raises women's relative wages.