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Data on Sale of Provincial Governorships in Peru, 17th-18th century

Description

A cross-sectional dataset containing information on the sale of provincial governorships by the Spanish Crown in #' Peru during the 17th and 18th century, as well as province-level demographic and economic data. The dataset is ' from Guardado (2018). The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(colony)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 632 rows and 36 variables.

Details

• audiencia. Spanish Audiencia.

• provincia. colonial province name.

• provcode. province code.

• year. year of sale.

• time. sequence in sale.

• name_approx. name of purchaser (approximate).

• appointed. appointed (not sold)? 1=yes.

• title_raw. social status (as described in Crown's docs).

• military. military career (or rank)? 1=yes.

• orden. holds a knight title (caballero)? 1=yes.

• nobility. holds other nobility titles? 1=yes.

• noble. holds either a knight or other nobility titles? 1=yes.

• rprice1. real office prices (in pesos) 1 peso=272 maravedies.

• suitindex. avg agricultural suitability in province (1=max suitability).

• centerxgd. avg longitude (based on center of districts in province).

• centerygd. avg latitude (based on center of districts in province).

• z. avg elevation.

• distlima. avg distance to Lima (based on center of districts in province).

• bishop. is the province a bishop seat? 1=yes.

• cumwar. cumulative years of Spanish involvement in European wars.

• war. indicator for years of Spanish involvement in European wars.

• twowars. cumulative years of Spanish involvement in succession wars.

• yearfromwar. cumulative years into / from the following European war.

• pop54. province population levels in 1754 (Golte).

• ind54. province indigenous population levels in 1754 (Golte).

• gov_reb. anti-governor rebellion in year of purchase? 1=yes.

• mita. province to provice forced labor to mines? 1=yes.

• mine. gold or silver mine in province? 1=yes.

• econactivity2. province is a market hub (circuito comercial)? 1=yes.

• wage. wages (in pesos) during office-selling period.

• reparto2. assigned repartimiento quota (in pesos) in 1754.

• rep50. above the median of repartimiento quotas? 1=yes.

• totalc. log total revenue at caja level.

• tributonew. log total revenue from head taxes (tributo).

• mining. log total revenue from mining taxes.

• alcabala. log total revenue from sale taxes (alcabala).

Source

Guardado, J. (2018). Office-selling, corruption, and long-term development in Peru. American Political Science Review, 112(4), 971-995.

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