Spatial Economic Data

The main journal article of reference for this data set is:

Nordhaus, W.D. 2005. Geography and macroeconomics: New data and new findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103(10): 3510-3517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0509842103.

In addition to this article, a number of other documents developed by the Yale G-ECON team may be useful to users of this data set:

• 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)
• Description of Environmental Variables (Kyle Hood)
• Description of GEcon2.11 data (Xi Chen)