pwt: Extract of the Penn World Table.

In lachlandeer/hayashir: R Companion to "Econometrics" by Fumio Hayashi

Extract of the Penn World Table.

Description

Hayashi Source: Summers, R., and A. Heston, 1991, 'The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106,327-368.

Usage

data('pwt')

Format

A data.frame with 3250 observations on 8 variables:

• country_id: a numeric identifier for each country

• communist: = TRUE if country has communist government

• opec_member: = TRUE if country is an OPEC member

• year: year

• population: population ('000s)

• real_gdp_capita: real GDP per capita (in 1980 US Dollars)

• savings_rate: savings rate, in percent

• country_name: name of the country

Details

A panel data set on 125 countries over 26 years covering macroeconomic variables. Known as the Penn World Table, or the Summers-Heston data.

Notes

Used in the Empirical Exercise of Chapter 5.

Source

https://sites.google.com/site/fumiohayashi/hayashi-econometrics/data-for-empirical

Examples

 str(pwt)

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