Data Sets
Social Security Database
from: Bloom, David E., David Canning, Richard K. Mansfield, Michael Moore, 2007. "Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings," Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 54(1), pages 92-114.
Social Security Data: Excel Format
Infrastructure Database
from: Canning, David, "A Database of World Stocks of Infrastructure: 1950-1995," The World Bank Economic Review, 1998, Vol. 12(3), pp 529-548.
Infrastructure Data: Excel Format in Zip File
2007 Update: Data now covers 1950-2005
Paved Roads: Excel Format
Telephone Main Lines: Excel Format
Electricity Generating Capacity: Excel Format
Railway Lines: Excel Format
Abortion Law Database
from: Bloom,
David E., David Canning, Guenther Fink and Jocelyn Finlay, "Fertility, Female Labor Force
Participation, and the Demographic Dividend," Journal of Economic Growth, 2009, Vol. 14(2), 79-101.