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The Solow Growth Model Suggests That Countries with Identical Saving (g6090)( \mathrm { g } 6090 )

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The Solow growth model suggests that countries with identical saving rates and population growth rates should converge to the same per capita income level. This result has been extended to include investment in human capital (education) as well as investment in physical capital. This hypothesis is referred to as the "conditional convergence hypothesis," since the convergence is dependent on countries obtaining the same values in the driving variables. To test the hypothesis, you collect data from the Penn World Tables on the average annual growth rate of GDP per worker (g6090)( \mathrm { g } 6090 ) for the 1960-1990 sample period, and regress it on the (i) initial starting level of GDP per worker relative to the United States in 1960 (RelProd 60_ { 60 } ), (ii) average population growth rate of the country (n)( n ) , (iii) average investment share of GDP from 1960 to 1990(sK1990 \left( s _ { \mathrm { K } } \right. - remember investment equals savings), and (iv) educational attainment in years for 1985(Educ)1985 ( E d u c ) . The results for close to 100 countries is as follows (numbers in parentheses are for heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors): g6090^=0.0040.172×n+0.133×sK+0.002× Educ 0.044× RelProd60(0.007)(0.209)(0.015)(0.001)(0.008)R2=0.537,SER=0.011\begin{array} { c } \widehat { g 6090 } = 0.004 - 0.172 \times n + 0.133 \times s _ { K } + 0.002 \times \text { Educ } - 0.044 \times \text { RelProd} _ { 60 } \\( 0.007 ) ( 0.209 ) \quad ( 0.015 ) \quad ( 0.001 )\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad \quad(0.008)\\R ^ { 2 } = 0.537 , S E R = 0.011\end{array} (a)Is the coefficient on this variable significantly different from zero at the 5% level? At the
1% level?

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