TROPICS AND INCOME: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE U.S. STATES

Rati Ram

Review of Income and Wealth, 1999, vol. 45, issue 3, 373-378

Abstract: A simple regression of personal income per capita for the U.S. states is estimated from cross‐section data for the years 1929, 1950, 1970 and 1990 with each state's distance from the equator as the regressor. While proximity to the equator is noted to have a sizable adverse effect on income, elasticity of personal income per capita with respect to “tropicality” shows a steady and somewhat dramatic decline during this 60‐year period. The estimates indicate that the disadvantage of tropicality is not immutable, and need not imply a developmental determinism.

Date: 1999
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