ECIN Replication Package for "Dynamic development accounting and relative income traps"

This archive holds data and replication code for Imam and Temple, "Dynamic Development Accounting...". The abstract of that paper reads as follows: Recent work suggests that cross-country convergence has strengthened over time. Here we
explore mobility and convergence in relative income and relative total factor productivity
(TFP) using finite state Markov chains. We find that low-income countries rarely improve
their position relative to the US. Since capital-output ratios have approached or exceeded
the US level and human capital is converging, the persistence of low relative income seems
to originate in low relative TFP. We study the dynamics of relative TFP, how they have changed, and how they interact with absolute levels of human capital, casting new light on the future of convergence.