oecdpanel {np} | R Documentation

## Cross Country Growth Panel

### Description

Cross country GDP growth panel covering the period 1960-1995 used by Liu and Stengos (2000) and Maasoumi, Racine, and Stengos (2007). There are 616 observations in total. `data("oecdpanel")` makes available the dataset `"oecdpanel"` plus an additional object `"bw"`.

### Usage

    data("oecdpanel")

### Format

A data frame with 7 columns, and 616 rows. This panel covers 7 5-year periods: 1960-1964, 1965-1969, 1970-1974, 1975-1979, 1980-1984, 1985-1989 and 1990-1994.

A separate local-linear `rbandwidth` object ('`bw`') has been computed for the user's convenience which can be used to visualize this dataset using `plot(bw)`.

growth

  the first column, of type `numeric`: growth rate of real GDP per capita for each 5-year period

oecd

  the second column, of type `factor`: equal to 1 for OECD members, 0 otherwise

year

  the third column, of type `integer`

initgdp

  the fourth column, of type `numeric`: per capita real GDP at the beginning of each 5-year period

popgro

  the fifth column, of type `numeric`: average annual population growth rate for each 5-year period

inv

  the sixth column, of type `numeric`: average investment/GDP ratio for each 5-year period

humancap

  the seventh column, of type `numeric`: average secondary school enrolment rate for each 5-year period

### Source

Thanasis Stengos

### References

Liu, Z. and T. Stengos (1999), “Non-linearities in cross country growth regressions: a semiparametric approach,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14, 527-538.

Maasoumi, E. and J.S. Racine and T. Stengos (2007), “Growth and convergence: a profile of distribution dynamics and mobility,” Journal of Econometrics, 136, 483-508

### Examples

    data("oecdpanel")
    attach(oecdpanel)
    summary(oecdpanel)
    detach(oecdpanel)

[Package np version 0.60-9 Index]