agl {pcse}R Documentation

agl

Description

Cross-National panel data on the OECD countries containing information about economic performance, government partisanship and labor organization.

Usage

data(agl)

Format

A data frame with 240 observations on the following 10 variables.

year
a numeric vector
country
a character vector
growth
the OECD growth rate
lagg1
An instrument for lagged growth rates constructed with an auxilary regression.
opengdp
weighted OECD demand
openex
weighted OECD export
openimp
weighted OECD import
leftc
"Left" cabinet composition
central
labor organization index
inter
interaction between leftc and central

Source

Alvarez, R. Michael, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. (1991) Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance. American Political Science Review 85:539-56.

References

Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan N. Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. (1993) Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: A Corrigendum. American Political Science Review 87:945-948.

Examples

data(agl)
summary(agl)

[Package pcse version 1.6 Index]