basque: Terrorism dataset

In johnson-shuffle/mixtape: Data for Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham

Terrorism dataset

Description

Data used in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) analysis of the impact of terrorism in the Basque region.

Usage

basque

Format

A data frame with 774 rows and 23 variables:

regionno

Region number

regionname

Region name (string)

year

Year

gdpcap

GDP per capita

secagriculture

Agriculture, forestry and fishing, sectoral shares (percentages)

secenergy

Energy and Water, sectoral shares (percentages)

secindustry

Industry, sectoral shares (percentages)

secconstruction

Construction and engineering, sectoral shares (percentages)

secservicesventa

Marketable services, sectoral shares (percentages)

secservicesnonventa

Nonmarketable services, sectoral shares (percentages)

schoolillit

Human capital, illiterates

schoolprim

Human capital, primary or without studies

schoolmed

Human capital, medium

schoolhigh

Human capital, high school

schoolposthigh

Human capital, post-high school

popdens

Population density

invest

Investment ratio (percentage)

panel_id

Region name (integer with labels)

school_illit_share

Human capital, illiterates (percentage shares)

school_prim_share

Human capital, primary or without studies (percentage shares)

school_med_share

Human capital, medium (percentage shares)

school_high_share

Human capital, high school (percentage shares)

school_posthigh_share

Human capital, post-high school (percentage shares)

Source

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/beck/abadie_aer.pdf

References

Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal. "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country." American Economic Review 93.1 (2003): 113-132.

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