caa a22 4500 477078575 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00118645 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00118645 Knack Steve American University, School of Public Affairs and Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD aut Institutions and the convergence hypothesis: The cross-national evidence [Elektronische Daten] [Steve Knack] DeLong and others have shown that cross-country convergence in per capita incomes is limited to samples of currently-industrialized nations, or universal-literacy nations. In particular, income dispersion has failed to decline in groups of ex ante rich nations. This study finds strong convergence in per capita incomes among nations with institutions (namely secure property rights) conducive to saving, investing, and producing. Incomes are shown to converge even within ex ante rich samples when measures of institutional quality are held constant. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 207-228 0048-5829 87:3-4<207 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118645 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118645 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Knack Steve American University, School of Public Affairs and Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 207-228 0048-5829 87:3-4<207 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer