Robert Barro
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Barro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Barro |
| SIGNATURE | BARRO R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual information on flu deaths 1918-1920 and war deaths during WWI imply flu-generated economic decl…
Debt and Entanglements Between the Wars
The seven chapters in this volume tell stories about correlated macroeconomic and political events that occurred in six countries and four Dominions of the British Commonwealth between 1914 and 1940. By a story, I mean a collection of observations ordered in time together with causal interpretations that come from projecting the observations onto a theory. Correlations among our stories arise partly from the international aspects of the events be…
La crise des gouvernements et les crises de la finance et de l'économie
A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010
Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level. We use these new data to investigate how output relates to the stock of h…
Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Using data from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey about current and former religious adherence, we calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. Drawing upon a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, we posit that the frequency of religious conversion depends on the cost of switching and the cost of having the “wrong” religion. Findings accord with several hypotheses: religio…
U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations
We have constructed a new and substantial data set from 1939 to 2004 on U.S.-based private voluntary organizations (PVOs) engaged in international relief and development. The universe comprises PVOs registered with the federal government (U.S. Agency for International Development since the early 1960s). PVOs are classified by type among secular and 14 types of religious categories. Classifications were made for the date of founding and in 2004 (o…
International Determinants of Religiosity
Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the former theory, economic development reduces religious participation and beliefs. According to the latter theory, religiosity depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under Communism, and the degree of religious pluralism. We assess the theories by using sur…
Schooling Quality in a Cross-Section of Countries
We investigate the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates. Family characteristics, such as income and education of parents, have strong effects on studen…
International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
This paper presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. We extend our previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation method for the measures of educational attainment and relate our estimates to alternative international measures of human capital stocks.
The Size of the Swiss Public Sector
Research on the public sector has recently experienced another boom as analysts of domestic and international politics have focused on the effects of global economic change on government activity. Much of this research aims at explaining the "size of government" and related outcomes, such as tax competition and tax evasion, the privatization of public enterprises, the size and shape of the welfare state, or the size of shadow economies. How relia…
Determinants of Economic Growth
Empirical findings for a panel of around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 strongly support the general notion of conditional convergence. For a given starting level of real per capita GDP, the growth rate is enhanced by higher initial schooling and life expectancy, lower fertility, lower government consumption, better maintenance of the rule of law, lower inflation, and improvements in the terms of trade. For given values of these and other variab…
European Macroeconomics
Journal Article European Macroeconomics. Get access European Macroeconomics. By Barro (Robert) and Grilli (Vittorio). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. viii + 483. £45.00 hardback, £18.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333 57763 9, 0 333 57764 7.) E. J. Driffill E. J. Driffill University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue 433, 1 November 1995, Pages 1676–1…
Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Using data from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey about current and former religious adherence, we calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. Drawing upon a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, we posit that the frequency of religious conversion depends on the cost of switching and the cost of having the “wrong” religion. Findings accord with several hypotheses: religio…
Schooling Quality in a Cross-Section of Countries
We investigate the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates. Family characteristics, such as income and education of parents, have strong effects on studen…
European Macroeconomics
Journal Article European Macroeconomics. Get access European Macroeconomics. By Barro (Robert) and Grilli (Vittorio). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. viii + 483. £45.00 hardback, £18.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333 57763 9, 0 333 57764 7.) E. J. Driffill E. J. Driffill University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue 433, 1 November 1995, Pages 1676–1…
European Macroeconomics
Journal Article European Macroeconomics. Get access European Macroeconomics. By Barro (Robert) and Grilli (Vittorio). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. viii + 483. £45.00 hardback, £18.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333 57763 9, 0 333 57764 7.) E. J. Driffill E. J. Driffill University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue 433, 1 November 1995, Pages 1676–1…
Determinants of Economic Growth
Empirical findings for a panel of around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 strongly support the general notion of conditional convergence. For a given starting level of real per capita GDP, the growth rate is enhanced by higher initial schooling and life expectancy, lower fertility, lower government consumption, better maintenance of the rule of law, lower inflation, and improvements in the terms of trade. For given values of these and other variab…
The Size of the Swiss Public Sector
Research on the public sector has recently experienced another boom as analysts of domestic and international politics have focused on the effects of global economic change on government activity. Much of this research aims at explaining the "size of government" and related outcomes, such as tax competition and tax evasion, the privatization of public enterprises, the size and shape of the welfare state, or the size of shadow economies. How relia…
International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
This paper presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. We extend our previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation method for the measures of educational attainment and relate our estimates to alternative international measures of human capital stocks.
Schooling Quality in a Cross-Section of Countries
We investigate the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates. Family characteristics, such as income and education of parents, have strong effects on studen…
International Determinants of Religiosity
Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the former theory, economic development reduces religious participation and beliefs. According to the latter theory, religiosity depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under Communism, and the degree of religious pluralism. We assess the theories by using sur…
U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations
We have constructed a new and substantial data set from 1939 to 2004 on U.S.-based private voluntary organizations (PVOs) engaged in international relief and development. The universe comprises PVOs registered with the federal government (U.S. Agency for International Development since the early 1960s). PVOs are classified by type among secular and 14 types of religious categories. Classifications were made for the date of founding and in 2004 (o…
A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010
Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level. We use these new data to investigate how output relates to the stock of h…
Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Using data from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey about current and former religious adherence, we calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. Drawing upon a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, we posit that the frequency of religious conversion depends on the cost of switching and the cost of having the “wrong” religion. Findings accord with several hypotheses: religio…
La crise des gouvernements et les crises de la finance et de l'économie
Debt and Entanglements Between the Wars
The seven chapters in this volume tell stories about correlated macroeconomic and political events that occurred in six countries and four Dominions of the British Commonwealth between 1914 and 1940. By a story, I mean a collection of observations ordered in time together with causal interpretations that come from projecting the observations onto a theory. Correlations among our stories arise partly from the international aspects of the events be…
The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual information on flu deaths 1918-1920 and war deaths during WWI imply flu-generated economic decl…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Panel data (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)