data.govexpend: Government Expenditures of US-States

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Government Expenditures of US-States

Description

This is a data set on the yearly expenditures of the US-States in 2013. Furthermore, the data describe some relevant characteristics of these states.

Usage

data.govexpend

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 5 variables:

state	name of the state.
expend	total state expenditures per capita (in dollar).
aid	federal aid received by this state (in million dollar).
gdp	gross domestic product (in million dollar).
pop	population (in million).

Details

In Auer et al. (2023, Chap. 17) these data are used to illustrate the consequences of heteroscedastic error terms.

Source

Different datasets based on National Association of State imported in 2015:

State Expenditure Report, Table 1: Total State Expenditures - Capital Inclusive from (Budget Officers).

Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances, Table 1: State and Local Government Finances by Level of Government and by State 2012-13 from U.S. Census.

Real GDP by State, 2011-2014, Table 1 from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico, Table 1 from U.S. Census.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).

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