A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

Research Unit Working Papers from Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA

Abstract: We show how differences in aggregate human development outcomes over time and space can be additively decomposed into a pure economic-growth component, a component attributed to differences in the distribution of income, and components attributed to “non-income” factors and differences in the model linking outcomes to income or non-income characteristics. The income effect at the micro level is modeled non-parametrically, so as to flexibly reflect distributional changes. The decomposition is illustrated using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights into the observed aggregate gains in schooling attainments. A user friendly STATA program is available to implement the method in other settings.

Keywords: macroeconomics; human development; distribution of income; Morocco; Vietnam. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2007-07
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Working Paper: A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development (2010)
Working Paper: A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development (2010)
Working Paper: A micro-decomposition analysis of the macroeconomic determinants of human development (2007)
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