Data and Documentation for G-Econ Project

May 2006

 

The documents in this file provide data and information on the G-Econ data set as of May 2006 (GEcon 1.3).

 

Documentation:

 

1. Detailed description of derivation of G-Econ data (William Nordhaus, Qazi Azam, David Corderi, Kyle Hood, Nadejda Makarova Victor, Mukhtar Mohammed, Alexandra Miltner, and Jyldyz Weiss)

 

2. Description of Environmental Variables (Kyle Hood)

 

3. Description of GEcon2.11 data (Xi Chen)

 

 

 

Data sets:

 

1.      Spreadsheet from 2006 data set (GEcon 1.3).

2. Spreadsheet with updated data from December 2008 (GEcon 2.11).

 

3. The country files are found, click here. This contains folders for each country. Each folder has the three file types described above. (Note that most country files are unchanged since 2006. See description under "Description," paper 3.

 

Maps

 

Europe

US

 

Rotating globes:

Smoothed: northern hemisphere

Smoothed: southern hemisphere

Unsmoothed: northern exposure