Enrique Moral-Benito, "Growth Empirics in Panel Data under Model
Uncertainty and Weak Exogeneity", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Vol. 31, No. 3, 2016, pp. 584-602.

All data are in the text file mb-data.txt, which is an ASCII file in
DOS format. It is zipped in the file mb-data.zip. Unix/Linux users
should use "unzip -a".

The data consist of 292 observations (rows). There are 11 variables
(columns). Variable names are in the last row of the file.

The table below lists the names of the variables included in the
dataset and a short description (more details can be found in Table A1
of the paper):

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variable name      description
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country		COUNTRY IDENTIFIER (NUMBER)
year		YEAR	
gdp		Logarithm of GDP per capita (2000 US dollars at PP)
lag_gdp		Lagged logarithm of GDP per capita (2000 US dollars at PP)
ish		Ratio of real domestic investment to GDP
sed		Stock of years of secondary education in the total population
pgrw		Average growth rate of population
pop		Population in millions of people
ipr		Purchasing-power-parity numbers for investment goods
opem		Exports plus imports as a share of GDP
gsh		Ratio of government consumption to GDP
lnlex		Logarithm of the life expectancy at birth
polity		Composite index given by the democracy score minus the
                autocracy score

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