SumHes {Ecdat}R Documentation

The Penn Table

Description

a panel of 125 observations from 1960 to 1985

number of observations : 3250

observation : country

country : World

Usage

data(SumHes)

Format

A dataframe containing :

year

the year

country

the country name (factor)

opec

OPEC member ?

com

communist regime ?

pop

country's population (in thousands)

gdp

real GDP per capita (in 1985 US dollars)

sr

saving rate (in percent)

Source

Summers, R. and A. Heston (1991) “The Penn world table (mark 5): an expanded set of international comparisons, 1950-1988”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 29, 229-256.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 5, 358-363.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series


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