Repository created to share the database related to the paper "Revisiting the economic growth on Latin American and Caribbean Countries: the role of trade and democracy". The dataset was built using several sources - see the supplementary material.
If you use it, please cite as:
Santos, V. B. de S., & Bittencourt, M. V. L. (2024). Revisiting the economic growth on Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The role of trade and democracy. Research in Economics, 78(4), 100985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rie.2024.100985
The file tec_database.dta is the dataset.
The "do file" folder contains 4 files:
1- tec_main_reg.do: Main regressions (table 3).
2- tec_sen_analysis.do: Sensitive analysis on the main regression (supplementary material)
3- tec_conv_reg.do: beta convergence regressions (table 4)
4- tec_demo_reg.do: Regressions using alternative measures of political regime (table 5)