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Economic Growth Data
Description
Data used in Growth Empirics in Panel Data under Model Uncertainty and Weak Exogeneity (Moral-Benito, 2016, Journal of Applied Econometrics).
Usage
economic_growth
Format
economic_growth
A data frame with 365 rows and 12 columns (73 countries and 4 periods + extra one for lagged dependent variable):
- year
Year
- country
Country ID
- gdp
Logarithm of GDP per capita (2000 US dollars at PP)
- ish
Ratio of real domestic investment to GDP
- sed
Stock of years of secondary education in the total population
- pgrw
Average growth rate of population
- pop
Population in millions of people
- ipr
Purchasing-power-parity numbers for investment goods
- opem
Exports plus imports as a share of GDP
- gsh
Ratio of government consumption to GDP
- lnlex
Logarithm of the life expectancy at birth
- polity
Composite index given by the democracy score minus the autocracy score
Source
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/datasets/moral-benito001/