datafls: FLS (2001) growth data
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FLS (2001) growth data

Description

The economic growth data set from Fernandez, Ley and Steel, Journal of Applied Econometrics 2001

Usage

datafls

Format

A data frame with 53940 rows and 10 variables: A data frame with 72 observations on the following 42 variables.

y: numeric: Economic growth 1960-1992 as from the Penn World Tables Rev 6.0
Abslat: numeric: Absolute latitude
Spanish: numeric: Spanish colony dummy
French: numeric: French colony dummy
Brit: numeric: British colony dummy
WarDummy: numeric: War dummy
LatAmerica: numeric: Latin America dummy
SubSahara: numeric; Sub-Sahara dummy
OutwarOr: numeric: Outward Orientation
Area: numeric: Area surface
PrScEnroll: numeric: Primary school enrolment
LifeExp: numeric: Life expectancy
GDP60: numeric: Initial GDP in 1960
Mining: numeric: Fraction of GDP in mining
EcoOrg: numeric: Degree of capitalism
YrsOpen: numeric: Number of years having an open economy
Age: numeric: Age
Buddha: numeric: Fraction Buddhist
Catholic: numeric: Fraction Catholic
Confucian: numeric: Fraction Confucian
EthnoL: numeric: Ethnolinguistic fractionalization
Hindu: numeric: Fraction Hindu
Jewish: numeric: Fraction Jewish
Muslim: numeric: Fraction Muslim
PrExports: numeric: Primary exports 1970
Protestants: numeric: Fraction Protestants
RuleofLaw: numeric: Rule of law
Popg: numeric: Population growth
WorkPop: numeric: workers per inhabitant
LabForce: numeric: Size of labor force
HighEnroll: numeric: Higher education enrolment
PublEdupct: numeric: Public education share
RevnCoup: numeric: Revolutions and coups
PolRights: numeric: Political rights
CivlLib: numeric: Civil liberties
English: numeric: Fraction speaking English
Foreign: numeric: Fraction speaking foreign language
RFEXDist: numeric: Exchange rate distortions
EquipInv: numeric: Equipment investment
NequipInv: numeric: Non-equipment investment
stdBMP: numeric: stand. dev. of black market premium
BlMktPm: numeric: black market premium

Source

Fernandez, C., Ley, E., and Steel, M. F. (2001b). Model Uncertainty in Cross-Country Growth Regressions. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16:563-576. Data set from https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/steel/steel_homepage/software.

A working paper version of Fernandez, Ley and Steel (2001) is available via https://econpapers.repec.org/article/jaejapmet/v_3a16_3ay_3a2001_3ai_3a5_3ap_3a563-576.htm.

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