

Charles I. Jones
"Life and Growth"

October 2014

This file provides an overview of the programs (Matlab) used in the
paper.  Note well: many of these matlab files call various
general-purpose functions that I have written. These are stored in the
zip file ChadMatlab.zip, which also needs to be unzipped separately.


Table 1 -- The Consumption Growth Drag

  Calibrate.m

Figure 2 -- The Changing Composition of US R&D Spending

  HealthRNDShare.m

  See Appendix B in the paper for more discussion, as well as the
  spreadsheet NSF-AllYears-IndustrialRND.xls.

Figure 3 -- The Changing Composition of OECD R&D Spending

  HealthOECD.m 

  See Appendix B in the paper for more discussion, as well
  as the spreadsheet STAN-HealthRND.xls.

Figure 4 -- The Fraction of Patents for Medical Equipment or Pharmaceuticals

  Patents.m 
  See also the spreadsheet PatentFigureFromJeffClemens.xls.


Figure 5 -- International Evidence on the Income Effect in Health Spending

  oecdhealth.m  See also OECDHealthData.xls


Figure 6 -- Health and Consumption 

  Consumption.m 


Figures 7 and 8 -- Transition Dynamics

  Transition4.m -- main program
  (also calls the functions solvetransition.m and getells0.m)


  

