ICAP: Data set on _Infrastructure Capital Stocks_

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Data set on Infrastructure Capital Stocks

Description

The data set ICAP consists of annual observations for

• the real GDP Y in US dollars,

• the physical capital stocks K in US dollars,

• the physical capital stocks KBC30 via "backcasting" in US dollars,

• the number of workers LWDI providing the total labor force, and

• the average years of secondary education secondary of the population.

It further reports physical measures of infrastructure given by

• the electricity generation capacity EGC in megawatts,

• the number of main phone lines mlines,

• the kilometers of total roads troads,

• the number of cell phones lines cells,

• the kilometers of paved roads proads, and

• the kilometers of rails rails.

It covers the period 1960 to 2000 (T=41) for N=97 countries. The monetary values are given in US-Dollars at 2000 prices, i.e. constant PPP.

Usage

data("ICAP")

Format

A long-format data panel of class 'data.frame', where the columns id_i and id_t indicate the country and year respectively. Column COUNTRY contains the complete country names.

Source

The prepared data set is directly obtainable from the ZBW Journal Data Archive: \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.15456/jae.2022321.0717368489")}. This is open data under the CC BY 4.0 license.

References

Calderon, C., Moral-Benito, E., and Serven, L. (2015): "Is Infrastructure Capital Productive? A Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30 (2), pp. 177-198.

See Also

Other data sets: ERPT, EURO, EU_w, MDEM, MERM, PCAP, PCIT

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