Format
A data frame with 72 observations on the following 42 variables.
y- numeric: Economic growth 1960-1992 as from the Penn World Tables Rev 6.0
Abslat- numeric: Absolute latitude
Spanish- numeric: Spanish colony dummy
French- numeric: French colony dummy
Brit- numeric: British colony dummy
WarDummy- numeric: War dummy
LatAmerica- numeric: Latin America dummy
SubSahara- numeric; Sub-Sahara dummy
OutwarOr- numeric: Outward Orientation
Area- numeric: Area surface
PrScEnroll- numeric: Primary school enrolment
LifeExp- numeric: Life expectancy
GDP60- numeric: Initial GDP in 1960
Mining- numeric: Fraction of GDP in mining
EcoOrg- numeric: Degree of capitalism
YrsOpen- numeric: Number of years having an open economy
Age- numeric: Age
Buddha- numeric: Fraction Buddhist
Catholic- numeric: Fraction Catholic
Confucian- numeric: Fraction Confucian
EthnoL- numeric: Ethnolinguistic fractionalization
Hindu- numeric: Fraction Hindu
Jewish- numeric: Fraction Jewish
Muslim- numeric: Fraction Muslim
PrExports- numeric: Primary exports 1970
Protestants- numeric: Fraction Protestants
RuleofLaw- numeric: Rule of law
Popg- numeric: Population growth
WorkPop- numeric: workers per inhabitant
LabForce- numeric: Size of labor force
HighEnroll- numeric: Higher education enrolment
PublEdupct- numeric: Public education share
RevnCoup- numeric: Revolutions and coups
PolRights- numeric: Political rights
CivlLib- numeric: Civil liberties
English- numeric: Fraction speaking English
Foreign- numeric: Fraction speaking foreign language
RFEXDist- numeric: Exchange rate distortions
EquipInv- numeric: Equipment investment
NequipInv- numeric: Non-equipment investment
stdBMP- numeric: stand. dev. of black market premium
BlMktPm- numeric: black market premium
Source
Fernandez, C., Ley, E., and Steel, M. F. (2001b). Model Uncertainty in Cross-Country
Growth Regressions. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16:563-576.