scholarly journals Harnessing Agricultural Potentials for Economic Growth in North Carolina

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaranjana Herath ◽  
David Hill
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Rural Counties ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Agriculture in North Carolina contributes to 19 percent of the state’s income and employs over 20 percent of the work force. Agricultural activities are significant in rural counties and nearly 30 percent of the total population of North Carolina lives in 85 rural counties. Individuals in these rural counties have less income, education, and employment opportunities eventually in high poverty and unemployment rates. The objective of this study is to examine the potential use of agriculture in economic growth of North Carolina using county level data. Data were gathered from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Census Bureau for the period of 2000 to 2010. A system of simultaneous equations is used for the analysis. Results highlight that increasing income increases agricultural activities and vise versa. Thus, the counties with high household income levels are more capable of incorporating agriculture in economic growth while the counties with significant agricultural activities are more competent of improving income levels. Overall, results conclude the importance of secured satisfactory level of income through agriculture to enhance economic growth.

scholarly journals Minding Your Ps and Qs: Going from Micro to Macro in Measuring Prices and Quantities

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 438-443
Author(s):  
Gabriel Ehrlich ◽  
John Haltiwanger ◽  
Ron Jarmin ◽  
David Johnson ◽  
Matthew D. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Census Bureau ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Item Level ◽  
National Output ◽  
Level Of Aggregation ◽  
Statistical Agencies ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Key macro indicators such as output, productivity, and inflation are based on a complex system across multiple statistical agencies using different samples and levels of aggregation. The Census Bureau collects nominal sales, the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects prices, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis constructs nominal and real GDP using these data and other sources. The price and quantity data are integrated at a high level of aggregation. This paper explores alternative methods for reengineering key national output and price indices using item-level data. Such reengineering offers the promise of greatly improved key economic indicators along many dimensions.

scholarly journals Minding Your Ps and Qs: Going from Micro to Macro in Measuring Prices and Quantities

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabe Ehrlich ◽  
John Haltiwanger ◽  
Ron Jarmin ◽  
David Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Price Change ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Producer Price ◽  
Productivity Data ◽  
Level Data ◽  
National Output ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Key macro indicators such as output, productivity and inflation are based on a complex system of collection from different samples and different levels of aggregation across multiple statistical agencies. The Census Bureau collects nominal sales, the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects prices, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis constructs nominal and real GDP using these and other data sources. The price and quantity data are integrated at a high level of aggregation (product and industry classes). A similar mismatch of price and nominal variables pervades the productivity data, which use industry-level producer price indexes as deflators. This paper explores alternative methods for re-engineering key national output and price indices using transactions-level data. Such re-engineering offers the promise of greatly improved macroeconomic data along many dimensions. First, price and quantity would be based on the same observations. Second, the granularity of data could be greatly increased on many dimensions. Third, time series could be constructed at a higher frequency and on a more timely basis. Fourth, the use of transactions-level data opens the door to new methods for tracking product turnover and other sources of product quality change that may be biasing the key national indicators. Implementing such a new architecture for measuring economic activity and price change poses considerable challenges. This paper explores these challenges, along with a re-engineered approach’s implications for the biases in the traditional approaches to measuring output growth, productivity growth, and inflation.

The Census Race Classification: Is It Doing Its Job?

2018 ◽  
Vol 677 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Prewitt
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Immigrant Assimilation ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Government Reforms ◽  
Future 2

Aligning census ethnoracial categories with America’s changing demography is a never-ending task and becomes more difficult when identity claims are rationales for altering categories. We examine four current problems: (1) the Census Bureau projects a population more nonwhite than white by midcentury—social demographers document trends pointing to a different racial future; (2) the census inadequately measures second- and third-generation Americans, limiting the nation’s understanding of why some immigrant groups are “racialized” while others are “whitened”; (3) on health, education, and employment, there is more intrarace than between-race variability, which is better measured for Asians and Hispanics than it is for whites and blacks; and (4) consistency in racial self-identification is stronger for whites, blacks, and Asians than for Hispanics, Native Americans, and biracial groups, lowering the reliability of race data. These measurement problems weaken policy choices relevant to economic growth, social justice, immigrant assimilation, government reforms, and an enlightened public.

scholarly journals Effective Causes of Suicide in Zahedan (in 2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Narges Forghani ◽  
Mahmooud Bulaq
Keyword(s):  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Dangerous Behavior ◽  
Education And Employment

<span lang="EN-US">The present study aims to examine the effective causes of suicide in Zahedan city, Iran 2014-2015. In fact, suicide is a dangerous behavior to end the life, which would impose a social problem and cost a lot of harm to individuals, families and society. The main question is that what are the factors contributing to the suicide? Important assumptions include: marriage and having children reduces the suicide attempts. Education and employment could reduce the incidence of suicide attempts and suicide attempts are higher at a young age. This study makes use of fieldwork and analytical methods. The population of this research included people who committed suicide during nine months, from Azar 2014 to September 2015 and have been referred to Khatamolanbia (PBUH) hospital, Imam Ali (AS) hospital and Zahedan's forensic medicine. The findings suggest that all of 71 samples were Muslims; 36 persons were women (50.7%) and 35 persons were men (49.3%).There isn't any relationship between mental disorders and suicide attempts. The incidence of suicide among people 16 to 30 years old with 83.2% is much more than other age groups. Suicide attempts rates among educated people are less than under diploma with 66.2%. There is no significant relationship between marital status and suicide, but suicide (67.6%) among those without children is more than people with a family. Suicide attempts among people with higher-income levels and favorable socio-economic conditions and poor people with 15.5%, is much less than middle-income and good-income with 84.5%. 29.6% of those surveyed, that is 21 people, who attempted suicide had died. </span>

Occupational Segregation, Teachers' Wages, and American Economic Growth

1986 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan B. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher Wages

National, state, and individual-level data are used to explore the implications of the crowding of educated women into the teaching profession in nineteenth-century America. It is found that the more young women attended school, the lower were teacher wages and the price of educational services. Through this mechanism young women paid for their own education and, by lowering the price of educational services, helped America develop the best-educated population in the world by the century's end.

scholarly journals Ground-water level data for North Carolina, 1988-90

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.G. Strickland ◽  
R.W. Coble ◽  
L.A. Edwards ◽  
B.F. Pope
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Water Level ◽  
Ground Water Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Water Level Data

scholarly journals LA COMPOSICIÓN DE LA CAPACIDAD TRIBUTARIA: EVIDENCIA PARA UN PANEL DE PAÍSES

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (319) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Nancy Ivonne Muller Durán
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Panel Models ◽  
Fiscal Reforms ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Tax Capacity

<p>En este documento analizo la relación que existe entre el crecimiento económico, el comercio exterior y la capacidad tributaria. Sostengo que los impuestos no necesariamente distorsionan la eficiencia y que dependen de la actividad económica. Para documentar la hipótesis realizo cuatro modelos panel cointegrados para un grupo de 55 países y su subsecuente división de acuerdo con tres niveles de ingreso para el periodo de 1990-2018. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que el crecimiento económico es una condición <em>sine qua non</em> para determinar la capacidad recaudatoria pero no es suficiente en aquellos países con desigualdad económica. Por lo tanto, es necesario estimular el desarrollo económico y promover reformas fiscales progresivas.</p><p> </p><p align="center">THE COMPOSITION OF TAX EFFORT: EVIDENCE FOR A PANEL OF COUNTRIES.</p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>This document analyzes the relationship between economic growth, foreign trade and tax capacity. It is argued that taxes do not distort efficiency and that they depend on economic activity. In order to empirically support our hypothesis, four cointegrated panel models are carried out for a group of 55 countries and their subsequent division according to three income levels for the period 1990-2018. The results obtained show that economic growth is a <em>sine qua non</em> condition for determining tax capacity, but it is not enough in countries plagued with economic inequality. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate economic development and promote progressive fiscal reforms.</p>

Demystifying the environmental Kuznets curve: turning a black box into a policy tool

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
THEODORE PANAYOTOU
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Explicit Consideration ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Form Approach

The reduced-form approach to the income–environment relationship has been a useful first step towards answering the question of how economic growth affects the environment. However, without an explicit consideration of the underlying determinants of environmental quality, the scope for policy intervention is unduly circumscribed. In this paper a modest attempt is made to incorporate explicit policy considerations into the income–environment relationship and to explore its determinants as a step towards a better understanding of this relationship and its potential as a policy tool. The role of the rate of economic growth and population density is also explored. A main finding is that at least in the case of ambient SO2 levels, policies and institutions can significantly reduce environmental degradation at low income levels and speed up improvements at higher income levels, thereby flattening the EKC and reducing the environmental price of economic growth.

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