A cross-national data set including economic and political variables for 189 countries, averaged from 1980-1992.
Usage
data(EU)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 185 observations on the following 13 variables.
countryname
The name of the country
population
Country population from Gleditsch.
rgdpc
GDP per capita from Gleditsch.
trade
Trade from Gleditsch.
FHp
Freedom House political rights.
FHc
Freedom House civil rights.
socialist
An indicator for countries that were socialist during the Cold War.
eu
An indicator for EU members.
Details
A cross-national data set including economic and political variables for 189 countries, averaged from 1980-1992. Data are collected by Gleditsch and Freedom House.
References
Nielsen, Richard A. Forthcoming. "Case Selection Via Matching," Sociological Methods and Research. http://www.mit.edu/~rnielsen/Case Selection via Matching.pdf