Data and Programs from:

"Political Instability & Economic Growth"
Alesina, Ozler, Roubini, and Swagel
NBER Working Paper 4173.

This disk contains the following files:

DATA50.LOG	Text (ASCII) file with the most commonly requested variables.

DATA50.DTA	STATA data set with all variables (1950-1982).

DATA50.DAT	RATS data set with the variables used in our paper.
		This covers the years 1950-82.  It is organized as a
		panel:  119 countries, 33 years each.

DATA60.DAT 	RATS data set with the variables used in our paper.
		This covers the years 1960-82.  It is organized as a
		panel:  119 countries, 23 years each.

ACOUP1.RAT	RATS 3.x program to do the simultaneous equation system.
		Instructions on how to modify the specification are
		contained as comments.  Note that 4MB of memory are 
		needed to use the 1960-82 sample; 6MB for 1950-82.
		This matches the left hand side of Table 4 in the revised
		version of our paper (Joint Estimation of Growth and
		Government changes:  Base Specification, 1950-82 sample).

ACOUP1.OUT      File with results from ACOUP1.RAT.  This file has been edited
                to get rid of extraneous regression information.

[Note added by Daniel Feenberg]
All the above files are contained in swagel.zip. In addition to being
compressed, the .zip file has the advantage that a browser will
probably recognize that the .zip file is BINARY and should not
undergo ASCII translation, which will destroy the .dta files.
ftp clients still need to be told explicitly (via a 'type binary'
command) that .zip and .dta files are BINARY. Otherwise, the
result will not be usable.

On March 16th I made a translation of data50.dta to a spreadsheet
readable text file data50.csv at the request of a user.