PRDEG: Property Rights, Democracy, and Economic Growth

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Property Rights, Democracy, and Economic Growth

Description

A data set for replicating David Leblang's (1996) analysis on property rights, democracy, and economic growth.

Usage

PRDEG

Format

A data frame with 147 observations on the following 10 variables.

levine

a numeric vector that servies as a cross-section identifier

country

a character vector for the country

decade

a numeric vector for a decade

private

a numeric vector for credit allocated to private enterprise

rgdp

a numeric vector for the initial level of real per capita GDP

democ

a numeric vector for the level of democracy

pri

a numeric vector for primary school attainment

sec

a numeric vector for secondary school attainment

grow

a numeric vector for per capita growth rate

xcontrol

a numeric vector for exchange controls

Details

Data come Joshua Alley's Github repository on cross-sectional OLS regressions. Please read David Leblang's (1996) article for some more detail about the variables included in the model.

References

Leblang, David. 1996. "Property Rights, Democracy, and Economic Growth." 49(1): 5-26.

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