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- SAVINGS - Intercountry Life-Cycle Savings Data
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Under the life-cycle savings hypothesis as developed by Franco
- Modigliani, the savings ratio (aggregate personal saving divided
- by disposable income is explained by per-capita disposable income,
- the percentage rate of change in per-capita disposable income, and
- two demographic variables: the percentage of population less than
- 15 years old and the percentage of the population over 75 years
- old. The data are averaged over the decade 1960-1970 to remove
- the business cycle or other short-term fluctuations.
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- FORMAT
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- A data frame with 50 observations on 5 variables.
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- [,1] sr numeric "ave aggregate personal savings"
- [,2] pop15 numeric "ave % of population under 15"
- [,3] pop75 numeric "ave % of population over 75"
- [,4] dpi numeric "ave real per-capita disposable income"
- [,5] ddpi numeric "ave % growth rate of dpi"
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- SOURCE
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- The data were obtained from Belsley, Kuh and Welsch (1980).
- They in turn obtained the data from Sterling (1977).
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- REFERENCES
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- Sterling, Arnie (1977). Unpublished BS Thesis.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Belsley, D. A., E. Kuh and R. E. Welsch (1980).
- Regression Diagnostics. New York: Wiley.
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