Human capital, equipment investment, and industrialization

Documentation for indequip.csv

This data set should allow replication of the results in Tables 1-6.
If you replicate the results, or have trouble doing so, please let me
know. The variables are as follows:

DLSNO       The identifier given to each country
            by De Long and Summers (1993) (DS).
REL60		Log GDP per worker relative to US, 1960
            Source: DS
DSG6085     Growth, 1960-85
            Source: DS
NEINV       Non-equipment investment
            Source: DS
EINV        Equipment investment
            Source: DS
DSL6085     Labour growth
            Source: DS
AGEMP60     Agricultural share of employment 1960
            Source: World Bank (1979)
MANEMP60    Manufacturing share of employment 1960
            Source: World Bank (1979)
SEC60	      Secondary school enrollment 1960
            Source: Levine and Renelt (1992)
MANGDP60    Manufacturing share of GDP 1960
            Source: World Bank (1980)
ENERGY60    Energy consumption 1960
            Source: World Bank (1980)
URBAN60     Urbanisation 1960
            Source: World Bank (1980)
INDUS60     Industrialization index 1960
            Source: constructed by authors (see paper)

References

World Bank (1979). World Development Report. OUP, New York.
World Bank (1980). World Development Report. OUP, New York.

The data from De Long and Summers (1993) is also available at the
World Bank's Economic Growth Project website, which can be found via
Economic Growth Resources, at:

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth/

This documentation created by Jonathan Temple, 26/8/98.