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Working Papers

1959

1. A Capital-Intensive Approach to the Small Sample Properties of Various Simultaneous Equation Estimators
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (8)

1957

2. A Note on Least Squares Bias in Household Expenditure Analysis
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (6)

1956

3. An Econometric Investigation of the Lifetime Size Distribution of Average Annual Income
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (2)

Journal Articles

1996

1. International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls
   American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (2), 20-24 View citations (55)

1994

2. The Differential-Productivity Hypothesis and Purchasing-Power Parties: Some New Evidence
   Review of International Economics, 1994, 2, (3), 227-43 View citations (49)

1991

3. The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950–1988
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991, 106, (2), 327-368 View citations (670)

1988

4. A NEW SET OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND PRICE LEVELS ESTIMATES FOR 130 COUNTRIES, 1950–1985
   Review of Income and Wealth, 1988, 34, (1), 1-25 View citations (293)
5. What We Have Learned about Prices and Quantities from International Comparisons: 1987
   American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 467-73 View citations (13)

1984

6. Changes in the world income distribution
   Journal of Policy Modeling, 1984, 6, (2), 237-269 View citations (20)
7. IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND ITS COMPOSITION: 1950–1980
   Review of Income and Wealth, 1984, 30, (2), 207-219 View citations (58)

1982

8. COMMENTS ON: “SELECTED PROBLEMS OF INTERCOUNTRY COMPARISONS ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE EEC”
   Review of Income and Wealth, 1982, 28, (4), 407-410 View citations (3)
9. CORRIGENDUM TO “NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY”
   Review of Income and Wealth, 1982, 28, (3), 361-363

1981

10. NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY*
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1981, 27, (4), 339-355 View citations (5)

1980

11. Comparative Indian Economic Growth: 1870 to 1970
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (2), 96-101
12. INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND ITS COMPOSITION: 1950–77
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1980, 26, (1), 19-33 View citations (9)

1978

13. Real GDP per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries
    Economic Journal, 1978, 88, (350), 215-42 View citations (66)

1973

14. INTERNATIONAL PRICE COMPARISONS BASED UPON INCOMPLETE DATA*
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1973, 19, (1), 1-16 View citations (67)

1967

15. A Peek at the Tradeoff Relationship Between Expected Return and Risk
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1967, 81, (3), 437-456

Chapters

1999

1. The World Distribution of Well-being Dissected
   A chapter in International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, 1999, pp 479-508 View citations (1)

1992

2. Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons
   A chapter in Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, 1992, pp 493-516 View citations (6)

1981

3. Inequality among Nations: 1950 and 1975
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)