dem: Country-level Democracy indicator

demR Documentation

Country-level Democracy indicator

Description

A dataset containing the democracy indicator for 184 countries from 1960 to 2010

Format

A data.frame containing 9384 rows and 3 variables

Details

  • wbcode2. World Bank country ID. Integer.

  • year. year (1960–2010). Integer.

  • dem. binary indicator of democracy as defined in Acemoglu et al (2019).

  • y log of GDP per capita in 2000 constant dollars (multiplied by 100). Numeric.

  • tradewb Exports plus imports as a share of GDP from World Bank. Numeric.

Source

Acemoglu, Daron, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo, and James A Robinson. “Democracy does cause growth.” Journal of Political Economy.


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