Zhenjuan Liu and Thanasis Stengos, "Non-linearities in Cross Country Growth Regressions: A Semiparametric Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1999, pp. 527-538. There are 2 data files, which came from the King and Levine data base (QJE, CVIII, 717-737). They contain the following variables: 1: decbas1.dat (258 x 6) Col. 1: country index Col. 2: dummy 1960 = 1, 0 otherwise Col. 3: dummy 1970 = 1, 0 otherwise Col. 4: dummy 1980 = 1, 0 otherwise Col. 5: population growth Col. 6: gdpgrowth 2: decbas2.dat (258 x 4) Col. 1: investment/gdp Col. 2: real gdp in 1960 Col. 3: schooling enrollment rate Col. 4: country index These files are in DOS format and are zipped in the file ls-data.zip.