Determinants Of Economic Growth

Growth regression data as provided by Durlauf & Johnson (1995).

Details
The data are derived from the Penn World Table 4.0 and are given in Mankiw, Romer
and Weil (1992), except literacy60 that is from the World Bank's World Development
Report.

Format
A data frame containing 121 observations on 10 variables.

oil
factor. Is the country an oil-producing country?

inter
factor. Does the country have better quality data?

oecd
factor. Is the country a member of the OECD?

gdp60
Per capita GDP in 1960.

gdp85
Per capita GDP in 1985.

gdpgrowth
Average growth rate of per capita GDP from 1960 to 1985 (in percent).

popgrowth
Average growth rate of working-age population 1960 to 1985 (in percent).

invest
Average ratio of investment (including Government Investment) to GDP from 1960 to
1985 (in percent).

school
Average fraction of working-age population enrolled in secondary school from 1960
to 1985 (in percent).

literacy60
Fraction of the population over 15 years old that is able to read and write in 1960 (in
percent).

References
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Koenker, R., and Zeileis, A. (2009). On Reproducible Econometric Research. Journal of

Applied Econometrics, 24(5), 833--847.

Mankiw, N.G, Romer, D., and Weil, D.N. (1992). A Contribution to the Empirics of
Economic Growth. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 407--437.

Masanjala, W.H., and Papageorgiou, C. (2004). The Solow Model with CES
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