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Technology: Nonlinearities and Parameter Heterogeneity", Journal of Applied
Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2004, pp. 171-201.


Documentation for data in dur_john.Rdata 
-------------------------------------------------------

CODE=Country number in Summers-Heston dataset.
NONOIL=1 for nonoil producing countries.
INTER=1 for countries with better quality data.
OECD=1 for OECD countries.
GDP60=Per capita GDP in 1960.
GDP85=Per capita GDP in 1985.
GDPGRO=Average growth rate of per capita GDP (1960-1985).
POPGRO=Average growth rate of working-age population (1960-1985).
IONY=Average ratio of investment (including Government Investment) to GDP 
     (1960-1985).
SCHOOL=Average fraction of working-age population enrolled in secondary 
       school (1960-1985).
LIT60=fraction of the population over 15 years old that is able to read and 
      write in 1960.

NA indicates that the observation is missing. This dataset has also being used in Durlauf and Johnson (JAE 1995).

There are 121 observations for each variable.  All of the data with the 
exception of LIT60 are from Mankiw, Romer and Weil (QJE 1992), who in turn 
constructed the data from Penn World Tables 4.0.  LIT60 is from the World 
Bank's World Development Report.  



Documentation for data in datamp1.txt
-------------------------------------

CODE=Country number in Summers-Heston dataset.
GDP60=Per capita GDP in 1960.
GDP85=Per capita GDP in 1985.
POPGRO=Average growth rate of working-age population (1960-1985).
IONY=Average ratio of investment to GDP (1960-1985).
SCHOOL=Average fraction of working-age population enrolled in secondary 
       school (1960-1985).
LIT60=fraction of the population over 15 years old that is able to read 
      and write in 1960.

There are 96 observations for each variable.  All of the data with the
exception of LIT60 are from Mankiw, Romer and Weil (QJE 1992) who in turn
constructed the data from Penn World Tables 4.0.  LIT60 is from the World
Bank's World Development Report.  


Documentation for data in datamp2.txt
-------------------------------------

CODE=Country number in Summers-Heston dataset.
GDP60=Per capita GDP in 1960.
GDP85=Per capita GDP in 1985.
IONY=Average ratio of investment to GDP (1960-1995).
SCHOOL=Average fraction of working-age population enrolled in secondary 
       school (1960-1995).
POPGRO=Average growth rate of working-age population (1960-1995).

There are 90 observations for each variable.  All of the data are from
Bernanke and Gurkaynak (NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001) who constructed the
data from Penn World Tables 6.0. 


Corresponding author contact information
----------------------------------------

Chris Papageorgiou
Department of Economics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
U.S.A.

tel: (225) 578-3790
fax: (225) 578-3807
email: cpapa@lsu.edu

chrispapageorgiou.com

