sheston91: The Penn World Table

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

The Penn World Table used in Summers and Heston (1991).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 3250 observations on the following 8 variables.

year

Year

pop

Population (thousands)

rgdppc

Real per capita GDP

savrat

a numeric vector

country

Country

com

Communist regime

opec

OPEC country

name

Country name

Source

Hayashi, F. (2000). Econometrics. Princeton. New Jersey, USA: Princeton University.

http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/Hayashi/

References

Summers, R. and Heston, A. (1991) The Penn World Table (Mark 5): an expanded set of international comparisons, 1950–1988. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(2), 327–368.

Examples

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