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Cross Country Growth Panel
Description
Cross country GDP growth panel covering the period 1960-1995 used by
Liu and Stengos (2000) and Maasoumi, Racine, and Stengos (2007). There
are 616 observations in total. data("oecdpanel")
makes available
the dataset "oecdpanel"
plus an additional object "bw"
.
Usage
data("oecdpanel")
Format
A data frame with 7 columns, and 616 rows. This panel covers 7 5-year periods: 1960-1964, 1965-1969, 1970-1974, 1975-1979, 1980-1984, 1985-1989 and 1990-1994.
A separate local-linear rbandwidth
object (bw
) has
been computed for the user's convenience which can be used to
visualize this dataset using plot(bw)
.
- growth
the first column, of type
numeric
: growth rate of real GDP per capita for each 5-year period- oecd
the second column, of type
factor
: equal to 1 for OECD members, 0 otherwise- year
the third column, of type
integer
- initgdp
the fourth column, of type
numeric
: per capita real GDP at the beginning of each 5-year period- popgro
the fifth column, of type
numeric
: average annual population growth rate for each 5-year period- inv
the sixth column, of type
numeric
: average investment/GDP ratio for each 5-year period- humancap
the seventh column, of type
numeric
: average secondary school enrolment rate for each 5-year period
Source
Thanasis Stengos
References
Liu, Z. and T. Stengos (1999), “Non-linearities in cross country growth regressions: a semiparametric approach,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14, 527-538.
Maasoumi, E. and J.S. Racine and T. Stengos (2007), “Growth and convergence: a profile of distribution dynamics and mobility,” Journal of Econometrics, 136, 483-508
Examples
data("oecdpanel")
attach(oecdpanel)
summary(oecdpanel)
detach(oecdpanel)