Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

S-Tier
Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2017
Volume: 107
Issue: 4
Pages: 1293-1312

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

The evidence for the United States points to balanced growth despite falling investment good prices and a less-than-unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa's theorem to show that the introduction of human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle. However, balanced growth is possible if education is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw labor. We present a class of aggregate production functions for which a neoclassical growth model with capital-augmenting technological progress and endogenous schooling converges to a balanced growth path.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:107:y:2017:i:4:p:1293-1312
Journal Field
General
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-26