Amory Gethin
@amorygethin
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Researcher @WorldBank DECRG. Redistribution coordinator @WIL_inequality. PhD @PSEinfo. World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: https://t.co/ddGGsPoofo.
Paris, France
Joined May 2016
Incredibly happy to see my paper forthcoming in @QJEHarvard! I quantify how much of worldwide growth and poverty reduction can be accounted for by education over 1980-2019. A quick summary 1/9 👇
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World inequality between and within countries: India and China now have people among both the richest and poorest in the world. Quantitatively, about 2/3 of world inequality happens *within-country* today. Global inequality is not only about cross-country convergence!
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African Students on the Economics Job Market 2025 Thread #Econtwitter , Please RT & share widely Mental Healthcare Facilities and Mortality: Evidence from Local Access and Insurance Expansion Website: https://t.co/kCmuRKDRIk
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Excited to see this out: in this paper we revisit the relationship between equality and development from a broad cross-country historical perspective. Historically, periods of sustained productivity growth have also been those with low inequality👇
There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what our historical series available on https://t.co/3orZXT8SHo are clearly showing. Key findings in thread 🧵(1/8)👇 https://t.co/nQ7CLsRck7
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Happy to see this out: I discuss my research on how education accounts for about 50% of worldwide growth since 1980 and 60% of poverty reduction, as well as implications for the design of future education policies.
🆕 How education has driven global growth and poverty reduction Today on VoxDev, @amorygethin (@wb_research) discusses the role of education in driving global growth and poverty reduction:
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We often hear that the US has economically outperformed Europe in recent decades. But it's all about work hours declining more in 🇪🇺: GDP per hour growth has been substantially faster in most 🇪🇺 countries than in the 🇺🇸! Source: GDP from WID, hours from https://t.co/s32ibPl5sf
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Researchers and international institutions often lament the poor quality of education in Africa. But public education investment per child is roughly 40 times lower in Africa than in the United States. What should we expect?
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🌍Our one-pager on hours worked around the world with Emmanuel Saez 👇 thank you @voxeu for the opportunity!
Working hours around the world Amory Gethin @amorygethin @WorldBank @WIL_inequality @PSEinfo, Emmanuel Saez @UCBerkeley @berkeleyecon
https://t.co/r3ShQJRbyG
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With ambitious, concerted efforts at equalizing HK investment around the globe, we could aim for productivity convergence by 2100. Without these concerted efforts, the world is likely to remain extremely unequal over the course of the 21st century.
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As a % of GDP, pooling private and public resources, the U.S. ends up investing significantly more in education than Europe! Other regions of the world continue to lag behind despite some progress in most regions.
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Education spending per child in Sub-Saharan Africa was about 4% of European/North American levels in 1950. It is about 3% today. South and South-East Asia have started to catch up but still invest less than 10% of European/North American levels.
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🔗In this paper we construct a new database on human capital investment worldwide since 1800. 1⃣ World inequalities in HK investment are abysmal. If anything, they have increased. 2⃣ Substantial efforts at equalizing investment could play a key role in productivity convergence.
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Full paper can be found here (ungated): https://t.co/twnbbhnxd7
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The distribution of crimes reported to the police and police presence...
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The decline in spatial inequality in access to local public goods...
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