Data for: Attitudes towards change in a growing open economy

Our dataset is annual and comprehends the period from 1980 to 2014 for 20 Latin American and 14 Asian countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela; Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand). The time span was chosen given data availability. Export and import series were obtained from the Atlas of Economic Complexity that uses raw data for goods, as reported to the United Nations Statistical Division (COMTRADE), and for services, from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We chose a 11-sector level of aggregation because it allows us to address sectoral differences keeping the…