Cesar Calderon, Enrique Moral-Benito, and Luis Serven, "Is Infrastructure Capital Productive? A Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2015, pp. 177-198. All data are in the text file data-cmbs.txt, which is an ASCII file in DOS format. It is zipped in the file data-cmbs.zip Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". The data consist of 3,977 observations (rows). There are 15 variables (columns). The table below lists the names of the variables included in the dataset and a short description (more details can be found in Section 2 of the paper): -------------------------------------------------------------------------- variable name description -------------------------------------------------------------------------- year YEAR cid COUNTRY IDENTIFIER (NUMBER) code COUNTRY IDENTIFIER (TEXT) country COUNTRY NAME y GDP k PHYSICAL CAPITAL kbc30 PHYSICAL CAPITAL (BC) lwdi LABOR secondary YEARS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION egc ELECTRICITY GENERATING CAPACITY mlines MAIN PHONE LINES troads TOTAL ROADS cells CELL PHONES proads PAVED ROADS rails RAILS -------------------------------------------------------------------------