Due to the importance of the government size impact on economic growth, the current study investigates the impact of government size on economic growth in economies of the developed and developing countries by using a panel data approach over the period 1990-2010. The results indicate that government size has positive effect on economic growth and negative effect on per capita production growth...

How much electricity does the world really need? Economic theory suggests that electricity demand depends on a number of factors such as per capita income, economic output, supply and cost of electricity. However, formal electricity demand models based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population growth and efficiency improvement assumptions may not capture the appropriate variables for response...

The OECD/INFE international surveys of adult financial literacy (OECD/INFE 2016, 2020) show gender differences in developed countries Europe. In this study, we examine whether these can be explained by parental economic socialization using the Dutch 2018 DHS household survey. We investigate respondents' recollection when young predict their behavior and self-assessed knowledge. results from ord...

Objectives: Income poverty is one of the most common problems of old age, it varies among older adults living in different societies. The aim of this study is to investigate the predictors of income poverty of older adults based on the data of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Methods: The secondary data analysis method was used in the present study. The i...

OBJECTIVE To assess the contribution of primary care systems to a variety of health outcomes in 18 wealthy Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries over three decades. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Data were primarily derived from OECD Health Data 2001 and from published literature. The unit of analysis is each of 18 wealthy OECD countries from 1970 to 1998 (total n...

This study uses the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) data from 1990-2019 to estimate sustainable development ODA and Environment for DAC member countries. It can be inferred form that countries spend heavily on SDGs 16 9, while Korea spends mostly SDG 9. further expanded six different definitions of green ODA: ODA, environment marker Rio market Hicks energy growth ODA. The derivation...

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers and subsidies and away from capital expenditures. This expenditure shift is potentially enhanced by citizens’ preferences to be compensated for the risks of globalization (“compensation hypothesis”)....

In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, the...