En el Blog de Mankiw encontré esta referencia de un paper realmente "inesperado".....
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Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter*?
Abstract
This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between
1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil
121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped
relationship with the level of GDP in 1985. It can alone explain over 15% of the variation in
GDP. The GDP maximizing size is around 13.5 centimetres, and a collapse in economic
development is identified as the size of male organ exceeds 16 centimetres. Economic
growth between 1960 and 1985 is negatively associated with the size of male organ, and it
alone explains 20% of the variation in GDP growth. With due reservations it is also found
to be more important determinant of GDP growth than country's political regime type.
Controlling for male organ slows convergence and mitigates the negative effect of
population growth on economic development slightly. Although all evidence is suggestive
at this stage, the `male organ hypothesis' put forward here is robust to exhaustive set of
controls and rests on surprisingly strong correlations.
JEL Classification: O10, O47
Keywords: economic growth, development, male organ, penile length, Solow model
Tatu Westling
Department of Political and Economic
Studies
University of Helsinki
Abstract
This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between
1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil
121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped
relationship with the level of GDP in 1985. It can alone explain over 15% of the variation in
GDP. The GDP maximizing size is around 13.5 centimetres, and a collapse in economic
development is identified as the size of male organ exceeds 16 centimetres. Economic
growth between 1960 and 1985 is negatively associated with the size of male organ, and it
alone explains 20% of the variation in GDP growth. With due reservations it is also found
to be more important determinant of GDP growth than country's political regime type.
Controlling for male organ slows convergence and mitigates the negative effect of
population growth on economic development slightly. Although all evidence is suggestive
at this stage, the `male organ hypothesis' put forward here is robust to exhaustive set of
controls and rests on surprisingly strong correlations.
JEL Classification: O10, O47
Keywords: economic growth, development, male organ, penile length, Solow model
Tatu Westling
Department of Political and Economic
Studies
University of Helsinki
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¿Comentarios?.... en todo caso, para poder verificar esta hipótesis habria que solicitar al INEGI una encuesta al respecto...
2 comentarios:
Buenas tardes Doctor, que interesante artículo. El autor o autora escribe muchas cosas en doble sentido, que cosas no?
A lo mejor tiene que ver con el argumento de fogel sobre altura-crecimiento, y el autor de su falocéntrica referencia cita aquel paper de fogel, AER 1994, pero lo cita mal porque pone vogel.
Muy gracioso doctor pero no se ande exponiendo. Usted es un tipo que dicen que respetan. No le vayan a hacer pasar un mal rato. Quien lo manda noooo???
Y felicidades por su blog.
Parece una ocurrencia del autor, no está bien que quienes se dedican a la investigación económica hagan este tipo de cosas, entre economistas podemos verlo con cierto humor, pero quienes son ajenos a este ambiente tienden a creer que existe una correlación y ahí está el gran problema.
atte. Erick
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