<p>I know this was a while ago now but here is the excel file.</p>

<p>UPDATE: As somebody highlighted this is not the original 2010 file, but it does include the key raw data and some helpful instructions. </p>

<p>Here is the link to the video of where I go through the process step - by - step: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGMz0ERvcw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGMz0ERvcw</a> </p>

<p>Hope this helps,
EBW.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/aw3yb8u2mvr599p/SDM-Workshop%208-student%20version.xlsx?dl=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Excel file</a></p>

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Yes you're right - sorry I should have qualified. It is not the original file but does include the key raw data and some instructions should you wish to recreate yourself. Hope it is still of use!
Economics for a Better World
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<p>I think it is not available. The data is not available in the official <em>American Economic Review</em> <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.100.2.573" rel="nofollow noreferrer">website</a>, nor on the personal website of the authors of the replication study (the third author does not have a website).</p>
<p>The spreadsheet was given to the authors of the replication paper by Reinhart and Rogoff via email. There might have been an implicit agreement not to disclose it. Apparently, the underlying data cannot be produced directly from the website Reinhart and Rogoff used. The <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-abstract/38/2/257/1714018/Does-high-public-debt-consistently-stifle-economic?redirectedFrom=fulltext" rel="nofollow noreferrer">replication paper</a> states:</p>
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<p>On their web site, RR provide public access to country historical data for public debt and GDP growth in spreadsheets with complete source documentation. However, these publicly available spreadsheets do not include information on the exact data series, years and methods used in their paper. As such, we were unable to replicate the RR results from the data they posted on their web site.</p>
<p>In response to our request of April 2013, RR did provide us with the working spreadsheet that they used in producing the RR papers.</p>
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<p>As always with negative replies, we can only prove the contrary, so I might be wrong.</p>

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Thanks. "Apparently, the underlying data cannot be produced directly from the website Reinhart and Rogoff used." If that's the case, I'm curious what the evidence is for an "Excel mistake" vs intentional fraud. This paper http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1302598?journalCode=rjec20 says the excel mistake actually had a small effect, and intentional choices were the main factors leading to the interesting result. This seems counter to the common story about the R-R paper. This might be more appropriate as a separate question.
R Greg Stacey
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Is it common to publish data-sets and code in economics? Is this case an outlier?
R Greg Stacey
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@RGregStacey I think it is more and more common. But I don't think it is still mandatory. It depends on the journal. Some datasets are private too, so it is not always possible to do so.
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You can find an overview of the replications of this study in the ReplicationWiki that I created: http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt_(AER_2010) In the Wiki you also find information on thousands of published papers for which data and code were shared. In my 2017 paper Replication and Economics Journal Policies https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171032 I showed only a small minority of economics journals enforce a mandatory policy to share data and code. These journals tend to be among the better ones in the discipline.
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<p>I want to access the infamous Excel spreadsheet from Reinhart and Rogoff's 2010 paper "Growth in a Time of Debt". I see the paper <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w15639.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, and in the <a href="http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/36_data.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">2013 errata</a> I see a <a href="https://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link to the raw data</a>, however I'm not an economist and I don't know how to find the data in the link (it looks very comprehensive). Also it doesn't have the spreadsheet, and I'd like to reproduce the error in that.</p>

<p>How do I find Reinhart and Rogoff's original 2010 spreadsheet from "Growth in a Time of Debt"?</p>

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Herndon, Ash and Polin make their data available on a [website](https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/526-does-high-public-debt-consistently-stifle-economic-growth-a-critique-of-reinhart-and-rogo-ff) accompanying their 2013 working paper that was [published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 2014](https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bet075). They write of a "working spread sheet Public_debt-ratios_advanced.xlsx" by Reinhart and Rogoff but I cannot find exactly that in the zip-folders they provide. There are however several datasets from which you can get their results and deduce about the
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Download original spreadsheet from Reinhart-Rogoff "Growth in a Time of Debt"
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# Download original spreadsheet from Reinhart-Rogoff "Growth in a Time of Debt"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-02)

I want to access the infamous Excel spreadsheet from Reinhart and Rogoff's 2010 paper "Growth in a Time of Debt". I see the paper [here](http://www.nber.org/papers/w15639.pdf), and in the [2013 errata](http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/36_data.pdf) I see a [link to the raw data](https://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/), however I'm not an economist and I don't know how to find the data in the link (it looks very comprehensive). Also it doesn't have the spreadsheet, and I'd like to reproduce the error in that.

How do I find Reinhart and Rogoff's original 2010 spreadsheet from "Growth in a Time of Debt"?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Herndon, Ash and Polin make their data available on a [website](https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/526-does-high-public-debt-consistently-stifle-economic-growth-a-critique-of-reinhart-and-rogo-ff) accompanying their 2013 working paper that was [published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 2014](https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bet075). They write of a "working spread sheet Public_debt-ratios_advanced.xlsx" by Reinhart and Rogoff but I cannot find exactly that in the zip-folders they provide. There are however several datasets from which you can get their results and deduce about the  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-06-29. Score: 5

I know this was a while ago now but here is the excel file.

UPDATE: As somebody highlighted this is not the original 2010 file, but it does include the key raw data and some helpful instructions.

Here is the link to the video of where I go through the process step - by - step: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGMz0ERvcw>

Hope this helps,
EBW.

[Excel file](https://www.dropbox.com/s/aw3yb8u2mvr599p/SDM-Workshop%208-student%20version.xlsx?dl=0)

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Yes you're right - sorry I should have qualified. It is not the original file but does include the key raw data and some instructions should you wish to recreate yourself. Hope it is still of use!  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-10-02. Score: 1

I think it is not available. The data is not available in the official *American Economic Review* [website](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.100.2.573), nor on the personal website of the authors of the replication study (the third author does not have a website).

The spreadsheet was given to the authors of the replication paper by Reinhart and Rogoff via email. There might have been an implicit agreement not to disclose it. Apparently, the underlying data cannot be produced directly from the website Reinhart and Rogoff used. The [replication paper](https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-abstract/38/2/257/1714018/Does-high-public-debt-consistently-stifle-economic?redirectedFrom=fulltext) states:

> On their web site, RR provide public access to country historical data for public debt and GDP growth in spreadsheets with complete source documentation. However, these publicly available spreadsheets do not include information on the exact data series, years and methods used in their paper. As such, we were unable to replicate the RR results from the data they posted on their web site.
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> In response to our request of April 2013, RR did provide us with the working spreadsheet that they used in producing the RR papers.

As always with negative replies, we can only prove the contrary, so I might be wrong.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks. "Apparently, the underlying data cannot be produced directly from the website Reinhart and Rogoff used." If that's the case, I'm curious what the evidence is for an "Excel mistake" vs intentional fraud. This paper http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1302598?journalCode=rjec20 says the excel mistake actually had a small effect, and intentional choices were the main factors leading to the interesting result. This seems counter to the common story about the R-R paper. This might be more appropriate as a separate question.  
> **username_0**: Is it common to publish data-sets and code in economics? Is this case an outlier?  
> **username_3**: @RGregStacey I think it is more and more common. But I don't think it is still mandatory. It depends on the journal. Some datasets are private too, so it is not always possible to do so.  
> **username_1**: You can find an overview of the replications of this study in the ReplicationWiki that I created: http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt_(AER_2010) In the Wiki you also find information on thousands of published papers for which data and code were shared. In my 2017 paper Replication and Economics Journal Policies https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171032 I showed only a small minority of economics journals enforce a mandatory policy to share data and code. These journals tend to be among the better ones in the discipline.  

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