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PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
Masters Economics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Alan W. Heston is an American economist best known for his collaborative work with fellow economist Robert Summers and the development of the Penn World Table . Education and early life Heston was born October 18, 1934, and raised in Portland, Oregon. In 1955, he received his B.A. in economics from the University of Oregon. He received his M.A. in economics from the University of Washington in 1957. In 1962, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, where he studied under James Tobin, the winner of the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1987 (1991) (3482)
A NEW SET OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND PRICE LEVELS ESTIMATES FOR 130 COUNTRIES, 1950–1985 (1988) (1150)
Trade and Circuses : Explaining Urban Giants (2007) (421)
Understanding Ppps and Ppp-Based National Accounts (2008) (415)
Improved International Comparisons Of Real Product And Its Composition: 1950–1980 (1984) (362)
Real GDP per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries (1978) (317)
International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power (1979) (211)
A brief review of some problems in using national accounts data in level of output comparisons and growth studies (1994) (137)
Estimating Real Production and Expenditures across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables (2004) (115)
International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls (1996) (114)
The Differential‐Productivity Hypothesis and Purchasing‐Power Parties: Some New Evidence* (1994) (88)
International Comparisons Of Real Product And Its Composition: 1950–77 (1980) (82)
10 The Share of Services in Economic Growth (2000) (74)
The persistence of land fragmentation in peasant agriculture: An analysis of South Asian cases☆ (1983) (70)
Review of Income and Wealth (1988) (64)
Introduction: NGOs BETWEEN STATES, MARKETS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1997) (64)
Changes in the world income distribution (1984) (55)
Questions about the equivalence of market rents and user costs for owner occupied housing (2009) (38)
Institutional Flaws and Corruption Incentives in India (2008) (35)
The role of NGOs : charity and empowerment (1998) (33)
Introduction to "International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices" (2000) (30)
Official Yields Per Acre in India, 1886-1947; Some Questions of Interpretation (1973) (27)
China's Great Economic Transformation: China and Development Economics (2008) (25)
Is Newer Better? The Penn World Table Revisions and the Cross-Country Growth Literature (2009) (23)
Regional Output Differences in International Perspective (2003) (23)
A COMPARISON OF SOME SHORT‐CUT METHODS OF ESTIMATING REAL PRODUCT PER CAPITA (1973) (23)
Using Scanner Data to Estimate Country Price Parities: A Hedonic Regression Approach (2003) (21)
What We Have Learned about Prices and Quantities from International Comparisons: 1987 (1988) (18)
Price structures, the quality factor, and chaining (2001) (18)
PPPs and Price Parities in Benchmark Studies and the Penn World Table: Uses (1997) (17)
Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons (1992) (14)
Comparative Indian economic growth: 1870 to 1970. (1980) (13)
New Insights Into The Structure Of The World Economy (1981) (11)
The Estimation of Shipping Earnings in Historical Studies of the Balance of Payments (1960) (11)
The Economics of Camel Transport in Pakistan (1985) (11)
The Standard of Living in Akbar's Time: A Comment (1977) (10)
Linking Country Groups in International Real Product and Purchasing Power Comparisons (2002) (10)
Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations (2010) (10)
Inequality among Nations: 1950 and 1975 (1981) (9)
What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons (2008) (9)
A Further Critique of Historical Yields Per Acre in India (1978) (8)
COMMENTS ON: “SELECTED PROBLEMS OF INTERCOUNTRY COMPARISONS ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE EEC” (1982) (7)
New kinds of comparisons of the prices of tradables and nontradables (1995) (7)
Technology Transfer: New Issues, New Analysis (1981) (7)
ESTIMATE COUNTRY PRICE PARITIES : AN EXPLORATORY STUDY (2001) (6)
Government Services: Productivity Adjustments (2011) (6)
Chapter 7 REPORTED PRICES AND RENTS OF HOUSING: REFLECTIONS OF COSTS, AMENITIES OR BOTH? (2008) (6)
Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations (2007) (5)
Crusades and Jihads: a Long-run Economic Perspective (2003) (4)
Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Growth (2009) (4)
The World Distribution of Well-being Dissected (1999) (4)
Corporate Cash and Security Holdings: An Empirical Study of Cash, Securities and Other Current Accounts of Large Corporations (1961) (4)
Spatial Comparisons of Costs of Housing Services (2004) (3)
An Alternative Measure of Nations' Current Material Nell-Being (1995) (3)
Income levels, growth and price structures in the ESCAP region, 1960–1990 (1994) (3)
Background note on productivity adjustments as a special case of a general regional linking problem (2011) (3)
The Economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595: A Statistical Study. (1988) (2)
International and Interarea Comparisons of Prices, Income and Output (1999) (1)
Price Levels, Size, Distribution and Growth of the World Economy: Insights from recent International Comparisons of Prices and Real Product (2021) (1)
The Demand for Cash and Working Balances of Corporations (1962) (1)
Political economy and monetary management : India, 1766-1914 (1986) (1)
Flaw of One Price; The International Comparison Program in Historical Perspective (2017) (1)
Measuring and analyzing aggregate fluctuations: the importance of building from microeconomic evidence - commentary (1997) (1)
Jaime Ros.The Economics of Growth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+429. (2002) (1)
Comment on "Durables and Owner Occupied Housing in a Consumer Price Index" (2009) (1)
Book Review:Rise of Business Corporations in India, 1851-1900 Radhe Shyam Rungta (1973) (1)
The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytical Comparison@@@The Financial Development of India, 1860-1977@@@The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977 (1985) (1)
The International Comparison Project : a World Bank publication summary (1975) (1)
PPP Comparisons in the ESCAP Region: What Have We Learned ? (国際シンポジウム"Statistical Measurement of Economic Development of China and East Asia Region"(11.19/12.11)) (2000) (1)
Introduction (1997) (1)
Accounting for Cross-Country Differences In Income Per Capita * (2009) (1)
Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change: Essays in Honour of V. K. R. V. Rao. (1982) (1)
Book reviews : SUMIT GUHA, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941. Delhi, Oxford University Press, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1985, pp. 211 (with a bibliography), Rs. 145 (1986) (0)
In Memoriam: R obert S ummers (2013) (0)
Owner occupied housing : housing in Western Asia (2010) (0)
Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels (2009) (0)
Draft of 4 / 28 / 09 Are All Fishers Equal ? (2009) (0)
Flaw of One Price; The International Comparison Program in Historical Perspective (2016) (0)
International Economic Indicators: A Sourcebook. By Geoffrey H. Moore and Melita H. Moore. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 373. $45.00 (1986) (0)
Pranab Bardhan.International Trade, Growth, and Development: Essays. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. 285. (2004) (0)
Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History. Edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Pp. xxi, 256. $10.00 (1970) (0)
American Economic Association Understanding PPPs and PPP-based National Accounts (2015) (0)
A Different Perspective of Pakistan's Economy. The Structure of Expenditures and Prices, 1975-81 (1983) (0)
The Systematic Behavior of Service Prices and Productivity in Different Countries (1986) (0)
Front matter, prefatory note, table of contents (1999) (0)
Part A : International Comparisons of Housing Service PPPs (2004) (0)
IRVING B. KRAVIS (1917–1992) (1992) (0)
A DECADE OF ECONOMIC REFORMS: POLITICAL DISCORD AND THE SECOND STAGE (1999) (0)
Studies in the Development of Capitalism in India. By Shiva Chandra Jha. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1963. Pp. ix, 415. Rs. 20 (1965) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1985) (0)
Should the regions and the global office use weighted GEKS (2012) (0)
The 2005 ICP Benchmark , PWT and Some Health Warnings (2008) (0)
An introduction to South Asia: B.H. Farmer, (Methuen, New York, 1983) pp. ix + 253. (1984) (0)
Aspects of Indo-British economic relations, 1858-1898 (1985) (0)
Commentary on" Measuring and Analyzing Aggregate FDluctuations: The Importance of Bulding From Microeconomic Evidence" (0)
Discussion Paper No . 2003 / 55 Regional Output Differences in International Perspective (2003) (0)
Economics (1989) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1987) (0)
$27.00Paul Marer, Dollar GNPs of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Lexington, Massachusetts (1986), p. xiii+229 (1987) (0)
Bengal Agriculture, 1920–1946: A Quantitative Study. By M. Mufakharul Islam. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.50 (1979) (0)
Public expenditure and Indian development policy, 1960-1970: John Toye, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981) pp. xviii + 270, $39.50 (1984) (0)
Data requirements of all regions to improve global comparability across countries : sixth technical advisory group meeting (October 3-4, 2011) (2011) (0)
Are there lessons for equipment from the 2005 comparison (2010) (0)
Introduction (1972) (0)
Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919–1947. By Sugata Bose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 284. $42.50 (1988) (0)
CORRIGENDUM TO “NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY” (1982) (0)
Economics (1986) (0)

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