pwt: Extract of the Penn World Table.

pwtR Documentation

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)

lachlandeer/hayashir documentation built on Feb. 9, 2023, 2:01 p.m.