colonial: Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) Dataset
In ivdoctr: Ensures Mutually Consistent Beliefs When Using IVs

Cross-country dataset used to construct Table 4 of Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001).

colonial

A data frame with 64 rows and 9 variables:

shortnam: three letter country abbreviation, e.g. AUS for Australia
africa: dummy variable =1 if country is in Africa
lat_abst: absolute distance to equator (scaled between 0 and 1)
rich4: dummy variable, =1 for "Neo-Europes" (AUS, CAN, NZL, USA)
avexpr: Average protection against expropriation risk. Measures risk of government appropriation of foreign private investment on a scale from 0 (least risk) to 10 (most risk). Averaged over all years from 1985-1995.
logpgp95: Natural logarithm of per capita GDP in 1995 at purchasing power parity
logem4: Natural logarithm of European settler mortality
asia: dummy variable, =1 if country is in Asia
loghjypl: Natural logarithm of output per worker in 1988