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Determinants of Economic Growth
Description
Data on average growth rates over 1960–1995 for 65 countries, along with variables that are potentially related to growth.
Usage
data("GrowthSW")Format
A data frame containing 65 observations on 6 variables.
- growth
average annual percentage growth of real GDP from 1960 to 1995.
- rgdp60
value of GDP per capita in 1960, converted to 1960 US dollars.
- tradeshare
average share of trade in the economy from 1960 to 1995, measured as the sum of exports (X) plus imports (M), divided by GDP; that is, the average value of (X + M)/GDP from 1960 to 1995.
- education
average number of years of schooling of adult residents in that country in 1960.
- revolutions
average annual number of revolutions, insurrections (successful or not) and coup d'etats in that country from 1960 to 1995.
- assassinations
average annual number of political assassinations in that country from 1960 to 1995 (in per million population).
Source
Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).
References
Beck, T., Levine, R., and Loayza, N. (2000). Finance and the Sources of Growth. Journal of Financial Economics, 58, 261–300.
Stock, J. H. and Watson, M. W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.
See Also
StockWatson2007, GrowthDJ, OECDGrowth
Examples
data("GrowthSW")
summary(GrowthSW)