Cross-National panel data on the OECD countries containing information about economic performance, government partisanship and labor organization.
Usage
data(agl)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 240 observations on the following 10 variables.
year
a numeric vector
country
a character vector
growth
the OECD growth rate
lagg1
An instrument for lagged growth rates constructed with an auxilary regression.
opengdp
weighted OECD demand
openex
weighted OECD export
openimp
weighted OECD import
leftc
"Left" cabinet composition
central
labor organization index
inter
interaction between leftc and central
References
Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan N. Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. (1993) Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: A Corrigendum. American Political Science Review 87:945-948.