IneqGrowth {pder}R Documentation

Inequality and Growth

Description

5-yearly observations of 266 world from 1961 to 1995

number of observations : 1862

number of time-series : 7

country : country

package : panel

JEL codes: O47, O15, C23, C33, O16

Chapter : 07

Usage

data(IneqGrowth)

Format

A dataframe containing:

country

country name

period

the period

growth

growth rate

yssw

years of secondary schooling among women, lagged

yssm

years of secondary schooling among men, lagged

pinv

price level of investment, lagged

lgdp

log initial gdp per capita

gini

gini index

Source

http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14256

References

Forbes, Kristin J. (2000) “A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth”, American Economic Review, 90(4), 869-887, doi: 10.1257/aer.90.4.869 .

Roodman, David (2009) “A Note on the Theme of Two Many Instruments”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics An Statistics, 71(1), 135–158, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2008.00542.x .


[Package pder version 1.0-2 Index]