You will find most of my more recent data on my GitHub profile.
This dataset contains industry-level measures of export quality that take global input-output linkages into account and associated code.
When using these data, please cite:
Wacker, K.M., X. Ye, D. Tusha, and A. Celani (2025): "Industry-level estimates of export quality accounting for global value chains." Scientific Data 12: 379.
Link/DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.27142644
When using these data, please cite:
Hartmann, V. and K.M. Wacker (2023): "Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics." Review of Development Economics
Replication repository available here.
Dataset of infectious disease outbreaks collected from the Disease Outbreak News and the Coronavirus Dashboard produced by the World Health Organization. The unit of analysis in the database is an outbreak that happens when a country has at least one case of a specific disease during a particular year.
When using these data, please cite:
Torres Munguía, J.A., F.C. Badarau, L.R. Díaz Pavez, I. Martínez-Zarzoso, and K.M. Wacker (2022): "A global dataset of pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks.” Scientific Data 9: 683.
Link/DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.17207183
This dataset contains 5-year average data on economic growth and its potential determinants for ~150 countries between 1970 and 2019.
When using these data, please cite:
Beyer, Robert C.M. and Konstantin M. Wacker (2022): "Good Enough for Outstanding Growth: The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective." World Bank Policy Research Paper 10150.
Dataset and variable description are available here.
This dataset contains labor share data and explanatory variables used in the paper:
van Treeck, K. and K.M. Wacker (2020): "Financial Globalization and the Labor Share in Developing Countries." The World Economy 43(9): 2343-2374. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/twec.12946.
Please cite the above paper when using these data.
The dataset (.dta) is available here.
The STATA do file that allows to reproduce the key regression results is available here.
This dataset contains bilateral FDI data and explanatory variables used in the paper:
Schneider, S.T. and K.M. Wacker (in press): "Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions." The World Economy.
Please cite the above paper when using these data.
The dataset (.dta) is available here.
The STATA do file that produces the key regression results and performs cross validation is available here.
This dataset contains 5-year average data on economic growth and its potential determinants for over 100 countries between 1970 and 2010. Note that a new dataset on growth correlates is available from Beyer and Wacker (2022), see above.
When using these data, please cite:
Araujo, Jorge Thompson; Vostroknutova, Ekaterina; Brueckner, Markus; Clavijo, Mateo; Wacker, Konstantin M. (2016): Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American Development Forum Series; Washington, DC: World Bank
The data have also been used in:
Moller, Lars Christian and Wacker, Konstantin M. (2017): "Explaining Ethiopia's Growth Acceleration - The Role of Infrastructure and Macroeconomic Policy." World Development 96: 198-215
The dataset (.dta) is available here.
The STATA do file that produces the key tables in Araujo et al. (2016) is available here.