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data.govexpend: Government Expenditures of US-States

Description

This is a data set on the yearly expenditures of the US-States in 2013. Furthermore, the data describe some relevant characteristics of these states.

Usage

data.govexpend

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 5 variables:

statename of the state.
expendtotal state expenditures per capita (in dollar).
aidfederal aid received by this state (in million dollar).
gdpgross domestic product (in million dollar).
poppopulation (in million).

Details

In Auer et al. (2024, Chap. 17) these data are used to illustrate the consequences of heteroscedastic error terms.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2024): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).