>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 17:56:49 EST >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Feenberg) >Subject: PWT5.6 now available >X-Comment: Penn-World Tables Discussion List > >Version 5.6 of the Penn World Tables is now available for anonymous ftp >The DOS version (pkzip format) has already been posted in: > > ftp://nber.harvard.edu/pub/pwt56/dos > >Uncompressed ASCII and Windows versions will follow shortly. >Below is a short description of the new file. > > > PWT 5.6 README.DOC File > November 20, 1994 > > The Penn World Table (Mark 5), called PWT 5 here, was >described in "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. The Table >itself, an annex to the article, was distributed to users on a >diskette and through a read-only file maintained by the National >Bureau of Economic Research (NBER Publications: 1050 Massachusets >Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138; (617) 868-3900)). PWT 5.6, a revised >and updated version of the Table, has been placed on this >diskette. It was prepared by Alan Heston and Robert Summers of >the University of Pennsylvania, Daniel A. Nuxoll of the Virginia >Polytechnic Institute, and Bettina Aten of the University of >Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the research assistance of >Valerie Mercer, James Walsh, and Bao Truong. It too is being >distributed by the NBER. Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA 212-874-4020 voice 212-874-3137 fax
