SumHesR Documentation

The Penn World Table, v. 5

Description

A panel of 125 observations from 1960 to 1985

total number of observations : 3250

observation : country

country : World

Usage

data(SumHes)

Format

A data frame containing :

year

the year

country

the country name (factor)

opec

OPEC member?

com

communist regime?

pop

country's population (in thousands)

gdp

real GDP per capita (in 1985 US dollars)

sr

saving rate (in percent)

Source

Online supplements to Hayashi (2000).

http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/datasets.htm

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, , chapter 5, 358-363.

Summers, R. and A. Heston (1991) “The Penn World Table (mark 5): An expanded set of international comparisons, 1950–1988”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 29, 229–256.