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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
str(utility)
summary(utility)