utility: Data on U.S. electricity generating plants

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Data on U.S. electricity generating plants

Description

This dataset contains data on fossil fuel fired steam electric power generation plants in the United States between 1986 and 1996.

Format

A data frame with 791 observations on the following 11 variables.

firm

Plant identification.

year

Year identification.

y

Net-steam electric power generation in megawatt-hours.

regu

Dummy variable which takes a value equal to 1 if the power plant is in a state which enacted legislation or issued a regulatory order to implement retail access during the sample period, and 0 otherwise.

k

Capital stock.

labor

Labor and maintenance.

fuel

Fuel.

wl

Labor price.

wf

Fuel price.

wk

Capital price.

tc

Total cost.

Details

The dataset has been used in Kumbhakar et al. (2014).

Source

https://sites.google.com/site/sfbook2014/home/for-stata-v12-v13-v14

References

Kumbhakar, S.C., H.J. Wang, and A. Horncastle. 2014. A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata. Cambridge University Press.

Examples


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