AJR5: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (Table 5)

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (Table 5)

Description

A data set to reproduce Table 5 in Acemoglu et al. (2001).

Usage

AJR5

Format

A data frame with 163 observations on the following variables.

shortnam

a three-character code, ostensibly an ISO code

catho80

the percentage of the country that is estimated to be Catholic

muslim80

the percentage of the country that is estimated to be Muslim

lat_abst

the latitude of the country (absolute value)

no_cpm80

the percentage of the country that is esimated to be another religion

f_brit

a dummy variable indicating whether the observation is a former British colony

f_french

a dummy variable indicating whether the observation is a former French colony

avexpr

average protection against expropriation risk, 1985-1995

sjlofr

a dummy variable for whether the legal origin of the country's commercial code is French

logpgp95

log-transformed GDP per capita (PPP) in 1995

logem4

log-transformed European settler mortality

baseco

a dummy variable indicating whether the observation is in the 'base sample'

Details

Acemoglu et al. (2001) are fairly transparent about what their data are and where you can read more about the sources they're using. La Porta et al. (1999) will feature prominently in some of these variables.

References

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2001. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation". American Economic Review 91(5): 1369–1401.

La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny. 1999. "The Quality of Government" Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15(1): 222-79.

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