oecdpanel {np}R Documentation

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 (forthcoming). There are 616 observations in total.

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.

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 integer: 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 enrollment 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 (forthcoming), “Growth and convergence: a profile of distribution dynamics and mobility,” Journal of Econometrics.

Examples

data("oecdpanel")
attach(oecdpanel)
summary(oecdpanel)
detach(oecdpanel)

[Package np version 0.12-1 Index]