Winford H. Masanjala and Chris Papageorgiou, "The Solow Model with CES Technology: Nonlinearities and Parameter Heterogeneity", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2004, pp. 171-201. All of the following files are contained in the file mp-data-programs.zip. All but one file is an ASCII file in DOS format. GAUSS programs and data ----------------------- 1) thr_CES1.prg 2) thr_CES2.prg 3) thr_est.prc 4) thr_het.prc 5) dur_john.fmt 6) dur_john.txt Documentation for programs -------------------------- thr_CES1.prg is the program that produces threshold estimation results in the main text. thr_CES2.prg produces threshold estimation results presented in Appendix A of the paper. thr_est.prc and thr_het.prc are GAUSS procedures used in the master programs (.prg). The programs and procedures are from Hansen (Econometrica 2000). The data used in the GAUSS programs are in dur_john.txt and dur_john.fmt (GAUSS binary file). Documentation for data in dur_john.txt and dur_john.fmt ------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. A value of -999 indicates that the observation is missing. This dataset has also being used in Durlauf and Johnson (JAE 1995). 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. I/Y=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 1995. I/Y=Average ratio of investment to GDP (1960-1995). SCHOOL=Average fraction of working-age population enrolled in secondary school (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