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Contributions of Econometrics to Public Policy Analysis in the Information Age

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In this paper we model U.S. economic growth over the next 25 years. Despite the anticipated aging of the population, moderate population growth will provide growing supplies of labor well into the 21st century. Improvements in labor quality due to education and experience will also continue for some time, but will eventually disappear. Productivity growth for the U.S. economy will be below long-term historical averages, but labor-using technical change will be a stimulus for growth of labor demand. Year-to-year changes in economic activity will be primarily the consequence of capital accumulation. However, the driving forces of economic growth over the long term will be demography and technology.

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  1. Department of Economics, Harvard University, 122 Littauer Center, Cambridge, MA, 02138-3001, US

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This is a revised version of the keynote speech that I delivered on 16 January 2009 at the 6th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies, at Kansai University, Japan.

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Jorgenson, D.W. Contributions of Econometrics to Public Policy Analysis in the Information Age. Rev Socionetwork Strat 3, 1–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-008-0004-4

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