Kuznets Curveball: Missing the Regional Strike Zone

Jeffrey Edwards and Anya McGuirk

Econ Journal Watch, 2004, vol. 1, issue 2, 222-234

Abstract: This paper addresses the specification of the econometric models used in the paper “Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality†by Jih Y. Chang and Rati Ram (2000). We find that when accounting for regional heterogeneity, the Kuznets hypothesis no longer holds, and low growth countries no longer have a higher degree of income dispersion over all levels of income than high growth countries.

Keywords: Kuznets Hypothesis; Statistical Adequacy; Empirical Specification; Hypothesis Testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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