Diego Restuccia

Working Papers:

• "Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time," with Guillaume Vandenbroucke
  June 2011
  [Working Paper]  
   
  
• "A Century of Human Capital and Hours," with Guillaume Vandenbroucke
  May 2010
  [Draft Paper]  
   
  
• "The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences," with Tasso Adamopoulos
  October 2011
  [Working Paper]   [Appendix B, C, D, E]  
   
  
• "The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis," with Guillaume Vandenbroucke
  January 2010
  [UofT Working Paper]  
   
  
• "The Latin American Development Problem"
  June 2011
  [Working Paper]   [ECLAC Working Paper]  
   
  
• "On-the-job Training, Limited Commitment, and Firing Costs," with V.V. Chari and Carlos Urrutia
  August 2005
  [Version in pdf]  
   
  
• "A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages," with Andrés Erosa and Luisa Fuster
  March 2010
  [Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Barriers to Capital Accumulation in a Model of Technology Adoption and Schooling,"
  February 2001
  [Version in pdf]  
   
  

Published Research:

• "Venezuela's Growth Experience," with Omar Bello and Juan Blyde
  Latin American Journal of Economics, Volume 48 (2), November 2011, pp. 199-226.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "How Important is Human Capital? A Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality,"
  with Andrés Erosa and Tatyana Koreshkova
  Review of Economic Studies, Volume 77 (4), October 2010, pp. 1421-49.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "A General Equilibrium Analysis of Parental Leave Policies," with Andrés Erosa and Luisa Fuster
  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 13 (4), October 2010, pp. 742-58.
  [Link to Article]   [Link to Code]  
   
  
• "The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity," with Margarida Duarte
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 125 (1), February 2010, pp. 129-173.
  [Link to Article]   [Data: README Matlab File Excel File]  
   
  
• "Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Establishments," with Richard Rogerson
  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 11 (4), October 2008, pp. 707-20.
  [Link to Article]   [Link to Code]  
   
  
• "Agriculture and Aggregate Productivity: A Quantitative Cross-Country Analysis,"
  with Dennis T. Yang and Xiaodong Zhu
  Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 55 (2), March 2008, pp. 234-50.
  [Link to Article]   [RYZ Data: README Excel ASCII]   [RYZ Appendix: pdf]  
   
  
• "Exchange Rates and Business Cycles across Countries," with Margarida Duarte and Andrea Waddle
  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Volume 93 (1), Winter 2007, pp. 57-76.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "The Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity in Portugal," with Margarida Duarte
  Portuguese Economic Journal, Volume 6 (1), April 2007, pp. 26-46.
  [Link to Article]   [UofT Working Paper]  
   
  
• "The Productivity of Nations," with Margarida Duarte
  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Volume 92 (3), Summer 2006, pp. 195-223.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "The Role of Agriculture in Aggregate Business Cycles," with José-María Da-Rocha
  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 9 (3), July 2006, pp. 455-482.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "Intergenerational Persistence of Earnings: The Role of Early and College Education,"
  with Carlos Urrutia
  American Economic Review, Volume 94 (4), December 2004, pp. 1354-1378.
  [Link to Jstor]  
   
  
• "Barriers to Capital Accumulation and Aggregate Total Factor Productivity"
  International Economic Review , Volume 45 (1), February 2004, pp. 225-238.
  [Link to Jstor]   [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "Fertility Decisions and Gender Differences in Labor Turnover, Employment, and Wages,"
  with Andrés Erosa and Luisa Fuster
  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 5 (4), October 2002, pp. 856-891.
  [Link to Article]  
   
  
• "Relative Prices and Investment Rates," with Carlos Urrutia
  Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 47 (1), February 2001, pp. 93-121.
  [Link to Article]   [Relative Price Data: README Excel ASCII]  
   
  

Discussions and Lectures:

• Discussion of "Neoclassical Miracles,"
  by Rodi Manuelli and Ananth Seshadri,
  IX Workshop in International Economics and Finance, Santiago-Chile, March 2007  
   
  
• Discussion of "Exploring the Implications of Large Decreases in Transportation Costs,"
  by B. Herrendorf, J. Schmitz, and A. Texeira,
  Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group (CMSG), Montréal, November 2006  
   
  
• "The Productivity of Nations,î keynote speach at the First Australian Meeting
  of Macroeconomic Dynamics,
  Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 2006.
  [Version in pdf]  
   
  
• Discussion of "Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations,"
  by R. Manuelli and A. Seshadri,
  II Summer Camp in Macroeconomics, ITAM, Mexico City, August 2005.