ajrcomment: Colonial dataset (2)

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Colonial dataset (2)

Description

Data used in the Albouy (2001) comment on "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation."

Usage

ajrcomment

Format

A data frame with 64 rows and 43 variables:

longname

full country name

shortnam

3 letter country name

step

Step in data construction

mort

Original Settler Mortality

mort2

Alternative mortality rates

logmort0

Original Log Settler Mortality

logmort2

log(mort2)

risk

Exp Risk

loggdp

Log GDP per capita (PPP) in 1995

campaign

Original mortality from campaign

campaign2

Campaign indicator for mort2

source0

Country source of own m. rate

source2

Source of own rate, mort2

slave

Data from forced labor

latitude

Absolute value of latitude

neoeuro

'New-Europes'(USA, CAN, AUS, NZL)

asia

Asia

africa

Africa

other

'Other' Cont (AUS, NZL, MLT!)

rainmin

Minimum Monthly Rainfall

meantemp

Mean Temperature (Parker, 1997)

edes1975

Pop of Euro Descent, 1975

malaria

Malaria in 1994

nafrica

North Africa

other2

Other Continent with USA & CAN

asiae_bl

East Asia, Barro-X

laam_bl

Latin America, Barro-X

oecd_bl

OECD, Barro-X

safrica_bl

Subsaharan Africa, Barro-X

col_fr

Colony of France

col_uk

Colony of UK

cons90

Constraint on Executive, 1990

lado1995

Law and Order Tradition in 1995

urb1500

Urbanization in 1500

pd1500

Population Density in 1500

bishops

Data from Gutierrez (1986)

epidemic

Data from epidemic period

notsoudan

data from Mali

ajr_ead

AJR's 'Earliest Available Data'

inconsis

Inconsistency correction (mort2)

new_data

Rates from AJR Response (mort2)

mort_bis

Bishop mortality

mort_set

Actual settler mortality

" acemogluetal

Source

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f179/00569cfd18339b3dbc53e66e2718b5db4a9c.pdf

References

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." American Economic Review 91.5 (2001):1369-1401. David Y. Albouy. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment." American Economic Review 102.6. (2012): 3059-3076

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