agl: agl

In pcse: Panel-Corrected Standard Error Estimation in R

Description

Cross-National panel data on the OECD countries containing information about economic performance, government partisanship and labor organization.

Usage

data(agl)

Format

A data frame with 240 observations on the following 10 variables.

year

a numeric vector

country

a character vector

growth

the OECD growth rate

lagg1

An instrument for lagged growth rates constructed with an auxilary regression.

opengdp

weighted OECD demand

openex

weighted OECD export

openimp

weighted OECD import

leftc

"Left" cabinet composition

central

labor organization index

inter

interaction between leftc and central

Source

Alvarez, R. Michael, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. (1991) Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance. American Political Science Review 85:539-56.

References

Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan N. Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. (1993) Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: A Corrigendum. American Political Science Review 87:945-948.

Examples

data(agl)
summary(agl)

Example output

      year         country        growth           lagg1       
 Min.   :1970   AUL    : 15   Min.   :-3.600   Min.   :-2.406  
 1st Qu.:1973   AUS    : 15   1st Qu.: 1.375   1st Qu.: 1.976  
 Median :1977   BEL    : 15   Median : 3.100   Median : 3.250  
 Mean   :1977   CAN    : 15   Mean   : 3.013   Mean   : 3.120  
 3rd Qu.:1981   DEN    : 15   3rd Qu.: 4.900   3rd Qu.: 4.232  
 Max.   :1984   FIN    : 15   Max.   : 9.800   Max.   : 6.684  
                (Other):150                                    
    opengdp           openex           openimp            leftc       
 Min.   :-32.10   Min.   :  30.94   Min.   :  64.96   Min.   :  0.00  
 1st Qu.: 70.53   1st Qu.: 208.75   1st Qu.: 284.61   1st Qu.:  0.00  
 Median :153.41   Median : 367.20   Median : 444.29   Median : 19.00  
 Mean   :174.65   Mean   : 489.77   Mean   : 482.83   Mean   : 34.80  
 3rd Qu.:255.19   3rd Qu.: 633.55   3rd Qu.: 622.34   3rd Qu.: 74.25  
 Max.   :736.02   Max.   :2879.20   Max.   :1415.20   Max.   :100.00  
                                                                      
    central           inter       
 Min.   :0.4054   Min.   :  0.00  
 1st Qu.:1.4324   1st Qu.:  0.00  
 Median :1.8442   Median : 32.44  
 Mean   :2.0242   Mean   : 91.33  
 3rd Qu.:2.7999   3rd Qu.:131.49  
 Max.   :3.6184   Max.   :361.84  
                                  

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