Rati Ram

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Government Size and Economic Growth: A New Framework and Some Evidence from Cross-Section and Time-Series Data: Reply (1989) (970)
Exports and Economic Growth: Some Additional Evidence (1985) (466)
Exports and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Time-Series and Cross-Section Data (1987) (426)
Military Expenditures and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries: An Augmented Model and Further Evidence (1986) (357)
Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-section Perspectives (1987) (298)
Composite indices of physical quality of life, basic needs fulfilment, and income: A ‘principal component’ representation (1982) (281)
Financial development and economic growth: Additional evidence (1999) (277)
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross‐Country Data for the 1990s* (2002) (252)
Additional Evidence on Causality between Government Revenue and Government Expenditure (1988) (205)
Educational Expansion and Schooling Inequality: International Evidence and Some Implications (1990) (201)
Defense expenditure and economic growth (1995) (182)
Openness, country size, and government size: Additional evidence from a large cross-country panel (2009) (146)
Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity (1979) (132)
Irreversibility of R&D investment and the adverse effect of uncertainty: Evidence from the OECD countries (2001) (120)
IQ and economic growth: Further augmentation of Mankiw-Romer-Weil model (2007) (119)
Further examination of the cross-country association between income inequality and population health. (2006) (119)
Social Capital and Happiness: Additional Cross-Country Evidence (2010) (119)
Recipient country's ‘policies’ and the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in developing countries: additional evidence (2004) (114)
Causality between Income and Government Expenditure: A Broad International Perspective (1986) (114)
Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study (1994) (109)
Roles of Bilateral and Multilateral Aid in Economic Growth of Developing Countries (2003) (107)
R&D expenditures and U.S. economic growth: A disaggregated approach (2008) (104)
Kuznets's Inverted-U Hypothesis: Evidence from a Highly Developed Country (1991) (99)
Dependency Rates and Aggregate Savings: A New International Cross-Section Study (1982) (98)
Foreign Aid, Government Policies, and Economic Growth: Further Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data for 1970-1993 (2001) (93)
Can educational expansion reduce income inequality in less-developed countries? (1989) (91)
Economic development and income inequality: Further evidence on the U-curve hypothesis (1988) (86)
Cross-country convergence in energy and electricity consumption, 1971–2007 (2012) (85)
Government spending and happiness of the population: additional evidence from large cross-country samples (2009) (76)
Academics’ entrepreneurship propensities and gender differences (2015) (73)
Level of Economic Development and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Postwar Developed World (1997) (72)
PPP GDP Per Capita for Countries of the World: A Comparison of the New ICP Results with World Bank Data (2016) (69)
Globalization and Educational Reform: What Planners Need to Know: Martin Carnoy; UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris, 1999, pp. 96, Price U.S.$15 paperback (2001) (67)
Different forms of decentralization and their impact on government performance: Micro-level evidence from 113 countries (2017) (64)
Government capital and private output in the United States: Additional evidence (1989) (63)
Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality (2000) (63)
Economic Development and Income Inequality: An Overlooked Regression Constraint (1995) (60)
Stock Returns, Real Activity, Inflation, and Money: Comment (1983) (60)
Level of Development and Income Inequality: An Extension of Kuznets-Hypothesis to the World Economy (1989) (59)
Income inequality, poverty, and population health: evidence from recent data for the United States. (2005) (59)
Global Shift, The Internationalization of Economic Activity, Peter Dicken, Guilford Press, Second ed, New York, 1992, xv + 480 pp., index, $30.00. (1994) (53)
Tropics and economic development: An empirical investigation (1997) (53)
A Multicountry Perspective on Causality between Government Revenue and Government Expenditure (1988) (50)
Convergence in energy consumption per capita across the US states, 1970–2013: An exploration through selected parametric and non-parametric methods (2017) (48)
Productivity of public and private investment in developing countries: A broad international perspective (1996) (45)
Comparison of GDP Per Capita Data in Penn World Table and World Development Indicators (2014) (44)
International inequality in the basic needs indicators (1982) (42)
Growth elasticity of poverty: estimates from new data (2010) (42)
Causal Ordering across Inflation and Productivity Growth in the Post-war United States (1984) (41)
International inequalities in human development and real income (1992) (40)
INTERSTATE INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: MEASUREMENT, MODELLING AND SOME CHARACTERISTICS (1992) (40)
The role of real income level and income distribution in fulfillment of basic needs (1985) (39)
Role of Education in Production: A Slightly New Approach (1980) (39)
Variations in the Effect of Uncertainty on Different Types of Investment: An Empirical Investigation (1999) (36)
Farm Households in Rural Burkina Faso: Some Evidence on Allocative and Direct Return to Schooling and Male-Female Labor Productivity Differentials (1988) (35)
Economic uncertainty and corruption: evidence from a large cross-country data set (2013) (35)
Growth Elasticity of Poverty: Alternative Estimates and a Note of Caution (2006) (33)
State of the “life span revolution” between 1980 and 2000 (2006) (30)
Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators: A recent perspective (1992) (30)
Quantile-regression estimates of cigarette demand elasticities for the United States (2004) (29)
Demand elasticities for Internet services (2006) (29)
Growth elasticity of poverty: direct estimates from recent data (2011) (26)
Trends in Developing Countries’ Commodity Terms-of-Trade since 1970 (2004) (25)
International income inequality: 1970 and 1978☆ (1979) (23)
Physical quality of life index and inter-country inequality (1980) (23)
Imports and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study (1990) (23)
Dependency Rates and Savings: Reply (1984) (22)
Forty Years of the Life Span Revolution: An Exploration of the Roles of “Convergence,” Income, and Policy (1998) (22)
Demand for cigarettes in the United States: effects of prices in bordering states and contiguity with Mexico and Canada (2009) (21)
School expenditures and student achievement: evidence for the United States (2004) (19)
ELASTICITY OF INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX IN THE UNITED STATES: FURTHER EVIDENCE FROM CROSS-SECTION DATA (1991) (18)
Level and Variability of Inflation: Time-Series and Cross-Section Evidence from 117 Countries (1985) (18)
Measuring economic freedom: a comparison of two major sources (2014) (17)
Level of development and income inequality in the United States: Kuznets hypothesis revisited once again (2019) (16)
Tropics and Income: A Longitudinal Study of the U.S. States (1999) (16)
Product Value as a Determinant of OPEC's Official Crude Oil Prices: Additional Evidence [The Determinants of Official OPEC Crude Prices] (1984) (15)
Educational attainment and HIV/AIDS prevalence: A cross-country study (2008) (15)
Parametric variability in cross-country growth regressions: An application of quantile-regression methodology (2008) (15)
Income elasticity of poverty in developing countries: updated estimates from new data (2013) (15)
Roles of income and equality in poverty reduction: recent cross-country evidence (2007) (15)
Level of Development and Rates of Return to Schooling: Some Estimates from Multicountry Data (1996) (14)
Comparison of cross-country measures of sigma-convergence in per-capita income, 1960–2010 (2018) (14)
Income, Distribution, and Welfare: An Intercountry Comparison (1992) (13)
Public educational expenditures in the United States: An analytical comparison with other industrialized countries (1995) (13)
Comparing evidence on Wagner's hypothesis from conventional and 'real' data (1986) (13)
Kuznets curve in happiness: A cross-country exploration (2017) (13)
Intercountry and intracountry inequalities in school enrollments: A broad international perspective (1995) (12)
Inflation and Relative-Price Variability: The Effect of Commodity Aggregation (1993) (11)
Reply to the Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis (1997) (11)
Economic Development and Government Spending: An Exploration of Wagner’s Hypothesis during Fifty Years of Growth in East Asia (2015) (11)
Further International Evidence on Inflation-Output Trade-offs (1984) (10)
International movements of money and men: impact on the informal economy (2020) (10)
Public Subsidization of Schooling and Inequality of Educational Access: A New World Cross-Section Study (1982) (10)
Money, Income and Causality in Japan. Supplementary Evidence: Comment (1984) (10)
Market opportunities intrafamily resource allocation and sex-specific survival rates: an intercountry extension (1984) (10)
Social Capital and Income Inequality in the United States (2013) (10)
Tropics, income, and school life expectancy: an intercountry study (1999) (9)
Another perspective on changes in international inequality from 1950 to 1980 (1984) (8)
Intercountry inequalities in income and 'index of net social progress': Evidence from recent data (1987) (8)
International income distribution: comparing new ICP and the existing data (2009) (8)
Income elasticity of human development in ASEAN countries (2013) (8)
Suggestions for Treatment of Human Capital in National Accounts-with Illustrations from Indian Data (1974) (8)
Distributive Effect of State Subsidy to Undergraduate Education: The Case of Illinois. (1999) (7)
Education and the Convergence Hypothesis: Ad¬ditional Cross-Country Evidence (1991) (7)
Inflation and relative-price variability: Effect of temporal aggregation (1988) (7)
Income convergence across the U.S. states: further evidence from new recent data (2020) (7)
Relation between inflation and relative-price variability in the United States: Evidence from data for the 1980s (1988) (6)
Recent Instability of the Demand for Money: Another Test of Stability (1982) (6)
Role of Wealth in Consumption: An Empirical Investigation (1982) (6)
Conceptual Linkages Between Defense Spending and Economic Growth and Development: A Selective Review (2019) (6)
Relative-price variability in the United States: A decomposition analysis (1990) (6)
Trade policy and human development: a cross‐country perspective (2012) (6)
Cross-Country Convergence in Income and Divergence in Life Expectancy: A Study in Reversais and Contrasts during the 1990s (2005) (6)
Kuznets's Inverted-U Hypothesis: Reply (1993) (5)
Attainment of multidimensional poverty target of sustainable development goals: a preliminary study (2020) (5)
"Nominal" and "Real" Interstate Income Inequality in the United States: Some Additional Evidence (1995) (5)
Income Elasticity of Poverty: Estimates for South Asian Countries (2015) (5)
Academic networks and the diffusion of knowledge (2014) (5)
Informal competition and firm performance: Impacts on input‐ versus output performance (2021) (5)
Conventional and real GDP per capita in cross-country studies of production structure (1985) (5)
Relation between levels of infant‐, child‐ and maternal‐mortality and their rates of decline: Evidence from a large cross‐country data set (2010) (4)
Economic growth and structure of domestic absorption: Evidence from internationally comparable data (1987) (4)
Response to Edwards and McGuirk: Income Level, Economic Growth, and Inequality: Flawed Methodology and Inaccurate Inference (2004) (4)
Income inequality and cigarette consumption: evidence from the United States (2010) (4)
Further evidence on Keynes' “finance motive” in demand for money (1982) (3)
Real and Nominal Interstate Income Inequality in the United States: Further Evidence (2015) (3)
Level of Economic Development and Share of Trade Taxes in Government Revenue: Some Evidence from Individual-Country Time-Series Data (1994) (3)
Human and Nonhuman Wealth in Demand-for-Money Functions (1980) (3)
Intercountry inequality in human development: a 30‐year perspective (2009) (3)
Defense Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data (2006) (3)
The contribution of millennium development goals towards improvement in major development indicators, 1990–2015 (2018) (3)
Rate of Economic Growth, Level of Development, and Income Inequality: Rejoinder to the Reply by Edwards and McGuirk (2004) (3)
Private Investment, Freedom, Openness, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Recent Cross-Country Data (2000) (2)
The “inverse care law” and infant mortality among Whites and Blacks in the United States (2011) (2)
International convergence in population happiness: evidence from recent data (2021) (2)
Income convergence across the U.S. states: further evidence from new recent data (2020) (2)
International income inequality, 2005–2011: what a difference 6 years can make (2015) (2)
A broader multicountry perspective on the Gibson paradox and fisher's hypothesis (1987) (2)
Foreign Capital, Savings and Economic Growth: An Agnostic Note (1980) (2)
Effect of General Uncertainty on Venture-Capital Investments: A Cross-Country Study (2004) (2)
Testing Wagner's Hypothesis from Multicountry Cross-Sections: A Panel Data Approach (1998) (2)
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Transition Economies: A Panel Data Study (2005) (2)
The global market for higher education: sustainable competitive strategies for the new millennium: Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey Norman Soutar, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001. pp. vii+200, Price US $65 (hard cover) (2003) (2)
Direct and total effects of foreign capital inflows on savings (1981) (1)
Reply to “A Replication Study of ‘Openness, Country Size, and Government Size’ (Journal of Public Economics 2009)” (2019) (1)
Entrepreneurial leadership in the academic community: a suggested research agenda (2019) (1)
What drives the production and diffusion of mobile apps? An international investigation (2022) (1)
Applicability of the permanent income hypothesis to underdeveloped economies: A comment (1981) (1)
Income, Inequality, and Social Welfare: A Study of the U.S. States (2013) (1)
Manufacturing output and labor productivity: Further evidence for the United States (1990) (1)
Tropics and Income in the U.S. States: Further Evidence from Recent Data (2015) (1)
Share of Individual Income Tax in Government Revenue: An Intertemporal Multicountry Study (1993) (1)
Public Educational Expenditures in Industrialized Countries: An Analytical Comparison. MacArthur/Spencer Series Number 19. (1991) (1)
Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit Perspective (2009) (1)
Size Matters: Corruption Perceptions versus Corruption Experiences by Firms (2021) (1)
Some Direct Estimates of "Discount Rates" and Consumer "Horizon" from Kendrick's Data (1983) (1)
Trade Policy and Poverty in Developing Countries - Politica commerciale e povertà nei paesi in via di sviluppo (2011) (1)
Wagner's Hypothesis and Tests of Granger-Causality: Reply (1989) (1)
Economic Grow and Share of Personal Income Tax in Government Revenue: A Comparison of Four Intercountry Cross Sections (1993) (0)
Real and Nominal Interstate Income Inequality in the United States: Further Evidence (2014) (0)
Tropics and Income in the U.S. States: Further Evidence from Recent Data (2014) (0)
Freedom, affluence, growth and inequality (1979) (0)
Gender and entrepreneurship : Selected stylized propositions, a simple empirical illustration, and some comparisons (2017) (0)
Income and Multidimensional Poverty in Developing Countries: A Cross-Sectional Perspective (2016) (0)
Outward-Orientation and Economic Growth: Additional Cross-Country Evidence (1998) (0)
Prospects for attaining the multidimensional poverty target of SDG 1.2: evidence from the most recent multiyear harmonized data for 75 developing countries (2022) (0)
Effect of Ascorbic Acid on Antioxidant Defense Systems and Lipid Peroxidatioin in Guinea Pig (2009) (0)
Population and economic growth: a critical note (1981) (0)
Globalization, Inequality, and Income: Recent Cross-Country Evidence (2003) (0)
Comparison of GDP Per Capita Data in Penn World Table and World Development Indicators (2013) (0)
Further evidence on ‘primary orientation’ and structural change (1981) (0)
Comparison of the actual and projected cross-country inequality in the mid-1970's (1983) (0)
Estimation of logarithmic relations: A possible pitfall and some alternatives (1981) (0)
EFFECT OF GENERAL UNCERTAINTY ON "EARLY" AND "LATE" VENTURE- CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: A CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY (2001) (0)
Dimensions of size and corruption perceptions versus corruption experiences by firms in emerging economies (2022) (0)
Sensitivity of Individual Income Tax in the United States, 1979-2004 (2008) (0)
Social Capital and Income Inequality in the United States (2012) (0)
Recent Changes in the Infant Mortality Rates of Blacks and Whites in the United States (2017) (0)
International movements of money and men: impact on the informal economy (2019) (0)
Academics’ entrepreneurship propensities and gender differences (2014) (0)
PPP GDP Per Capita for Countries of the World: A Comparison of the New ICP Results with World Bank Data (2015) (0)
Consolidation Characteristics of Cohesive Soils (1981) (0)
Openness and Government Size: Additional Evidence from Multicountry Data (1999) (0)
Export instability, income inequality, and aggregate savings: A few more results (1981) (0)
Another Look at International Evidence of Inflation-Output Trade-offs (1990) (0)
Outward-Orientation and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Quarter-Century Perspective (2006) (0)
Government Decentralization and International Government Performance (2016) (0)
Income, Inequality, and Social Welfare: A Study of the U.S. States (2012) (0)