about icp
research papers
contact us


Announcements

We now have a better way to retrieve Penn World Table data

For more details, please click here.

 

Research Papers 

These papers can be read using Adobe. Download the free Acrobat Reader if not already installed. Please note that many of these files have been scanned, incurring typos and errors in some tables and figures.  

Are All Fishers Equal?, Draft of 4/30/09, Bettina Aten, Alan Heston.
Understanding PPPs and PPP-based National Accounts, First Version, Angus Deaton, Alan Heston, November 13, 2008.
What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from the Results of Purchasing Power Comparisons?, Alan Heston, 2008.
Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations: A Proposal for Improving Existing Practice, Robert Feenstra, Alan Heston, Marcel Timmer, Haiyan Deng, July 2007. Appendix, Appendix data
Measuring China's Economic Performance: How Fast Has Its Economy Grown and How Big Is It Compared with the USA?,Angus Maddison and Harry X. Wu, January 2007
Regional Output Differences in International Perspective, Bettina Aten and Alan Heston, Spatial Inequality and Development, edited by Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables, UNU-Wider Studies in Development Economics, Oxford University Press, New York. 2005.
Here is an accompanying table that is not in the paper. Warning: You may not be able to understand it without reading the paper.
The Flaw of One Price: Some Implications For MER-PPP Discussions, Alan Heston, Presented to the PPP vs MER Workshop, Hartley Conference Center Stanford University, February 19-20, 2004.
Identifying Spatial Commonalities: An Empirical Application to Inter and Intra-Country Data, Bettina Aten and Alan Heston, WIDER Project Meeting on Spatial Inequality in Development, Helsinki, Finland, May 29, 2003.
Use of Penn World Tables for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potentials and Limitations, Bettina Aten and Alan Heston, Global Poverty Workshop, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, March 31-April 1, 2003. 
Benchmark Reconciliations Revisited, Bettina Aten and Alan Heston, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Stockholm, Sweden, August 18-24, 2002. 
Poverty Price Levels: An Application to Brazilian Metropolitan Areas, Bettina Aten and Tatiane Menezes, World Bank ICP Conference, Washington, D.C., March 11-15, 2002
Linking Country Groups in International Real Product and Purchasing Power Comparisons, Alan Heston and Bettina Aten, World Bank ICP Conference, Washington, D.C., March 11-15, 2002
Price Structures, the Quality Factor and Chaining, Alan Heston,  Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Vol.18, 2001.
The World Distribution of Well-being Dissected, by Robert Summers and Alan Heston, International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, NBER: Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 61, edited by Alan Heston and Robert E. Lipsey, 1999
Does Space Matter? International Comparisons of the Prices of Tradables and Nontradables, by Bettina Aten, International Regional Science Review, volume 20, no.1 & 2, 1997.
PPPs and Price Parities in Benchmark Studies and the Penn World Table: Uses, by Alan Heston and Robert Summers, CICUP 97-1.
Evidence of Spatial Autocorrelation in International Prices, by Bettina Aten, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 42, number 2, 1996.
Price Parities for Components of Gross Domestic Product in 35 Developing Countries: 1985, by Alan Heston and Robert Summers, CICUP 96-3.
Standard of Living: SLpop, An Alternative Measure of Nations' Current Material Well-Being, by Alan Heston and Robert Summers, CICUP 96-2.
Price Parities for Components of Gross Domestic Product in 35 Developing Countries: 1985, by Alan Heston and Robert Summers, CICUP 95-6.
Standard of Living: SLPOP An Alternative Measure of Nations' Current Material Well-Being, by Robert Summers and Alan Heston, CICUP 95-5.
Some Poverty Lines Are More Equal Than Others, by Bettina H. Aten, CICUP 95-5
World Distribution of Income: Growth and Inequality, by Robert Summers, CICUP 95-4.
New Kinds of Comparisons of the Prices of Tradables and Nontradables, by Alan Heston, Robert Summers, Bettina Aten, and Daniel A. Nuxoll, CICUP 95-3.
Towards a New Approach of Linking Countries at the Detailed Heading Level In a Way to Eliminate Systematic Quality Differences Associated With Income, by Alan Heston, CICUP 95-1.
The Differential-Productivity Hypothesis and Purchasing-Power Parties: Some New Evidence, by Alan Heston, Daniel A Nuxoll and Robert Summers. Review of International Economics, 1994, vol. 2, issue 3, pages 227-43
World Comparison of Real Gross Domestic Product and Purchasing Power, 1985, Phase V of the International Comparison Programme, 1994
Real World Military Expenditures, by Alan Heston and Bettina Aten. Economic Issues of Disarmament: Contributions from Peace Economics and Peace Science, Edited by Jurgen Brauer and Manas Chatterji, 1993.
Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons, by Alan Heston and Robert Summers, Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, NBER: Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 56, edited by Zvi Griliches, 1992.
The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988 by Robert Summers and Alan Heston, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, pp.327--368.
National Price Levels and the Prices of Tradables and Nontradables, by Irving B. Kravis, Robert E. Lipsey, NBER Working Paper No. 2536, March 1988.
The Share of Services in Economic Growth, by Irving B. Kravis, Alan W. Heston and Robert Summers, Global Econometrics: Essays in Honor of Lawrence R. Klein, Edited by F. Gerard Adams and Bert G. Hickman, 1983.
Towards an Explanation of National Price Levels, by Irving B. Kravis, Robert E. Lipsey, NBER Working Paper No. 1034 November 1982. Princeton Studies in International Finance 52, November 1983.
World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product
by Irving B. Kravis, Alan Heston and Robert Summers, Published for the World Bank
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1982.
An Approximation of the Relative Real Per Capita GDP of the People's Republic of China by Irving B. Kravis. Journal of Comparison Economics Vol 5, 60-78 (1981)
Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries by Kravis, I., R. Summers and A.Heston, Economic Journal, June 1978.
Better Estimates of Dollar Gross Domestic Product for 101 Countries: Exchange Rate Bias Eliminated by Robert Summers and Sultan Ahmad, Discussion Paper #297, December 1974.
International Price Comparisons Based upon Incomplete Data, Robert Summers, The Review of Income and Wealth, Series 19, Number 1, March 1973