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A state-year panel of contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations, the archetype of a bounded, underdispersed participation count: most state-years contribute to no operation, and the states that contribute carry a tight count held in a narrow band by a turning-over roster. About 42\ hurdle-CPB.

Usage

data(peacekeeping)

Format

A data frame with 4,448 rows and 9 variables:

iso3

ISO3 country code (the panel unit).

year

Calendar year, 1990–2016.

contributions

Number of distinct UN peacekeeping operations the state contributes personnel to in that year (the count outcome).

democracy

Electoral-democracy index.

lgdppc

Log GDP per capita.

lpop

Log population.

milper

Military personnel, thousands.

majorpower

Major-power indicator (0/1).

region

World region.

Source

Contribution counts aggregated from the International Peace Institute Providing for Peacekeeping database (https://www.providingforpeacekeeping.org); covariates from V-Dem and the Correlates of War National Material Capabilities data. Counts and public covariates only; prepared for illustration.

Examples

data(peacekeeping)
table(peacekeeping$contributions == 0)
#> 
#> FALSE  TRUE 
#>  2602  1846 
# \donttest{
some <- subset(peacekeeping, iso3 %in% unique(iso3)[1:40])   # forty states keep the example short
fit <- hurdle_cpb(contributions ~ lgdppc + milper, data = some,
                  participation = ~ democracy + majorpower, fe = "iso3")
fit
#> Hurdle Continuous Parameter Binomial (intensity fixed effects on 'iso3')
#> Call:  hurdle_cpb(formula = contributions ~ lgdppc + milper, data = some,     participation = ~democracy + majorpower, fe = "iso3")
#> Units: 1020 (588 participate, 58%)
#> 
#> Participation (logit link) -- positive coefficients raise P(Y > 0), i.e. participation:
#> (Intercept)   democracy  majorpower 
#>     -1.8477      3.8935     17.9320 
#> 
#> Intensity (zero-truncated CPB) coefficients:
#>  lgdppc  milper 
#>  0.2608 -0.0012 
#> Intensity alpha (shape): 0.6674 
# }