SumHes {Hayashi}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 :

ID
country's identification code
COM
1 for a communist regime, 0 otherwise
OPEC
1 for a country belonging to the OPEC, 0 otherwise
YEAR
the year
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 exanded set of international comparaisons, 1950-1988”, Quarterly Journal of Economics , 29, 229-256.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, chapter 5, 358-363.


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