TY  - JOUR
AU  - Acemoglu,Daron
AU  - Dell,Melissa
TI  - Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15155
PY  - 2009
Y2  - July 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15155
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15155.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daron Acemoglu
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-380B
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-1927
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: daron@mit.edu

Melissa Dell
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge MA 02142
E-Mail: mdell@mit.edu
AB  - We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and between-country differences are related. As a first step towards a united framework, we propose a simple model incorporating both differences in technological know-how across countries and differences in productive efficiency within countries.
ER  -