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ICAP: 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")

Arguments

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.

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