leaders: Leader Assassination Data

In kosukeimai/qss-data: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

Leader Assassination Data

Description

Dataset for a natural experiment that studied whether assassinations of political leaders had an effect on institutions and war.

Usage

leaders

Format

A data frame with 250 rows and 11 variables:

year

integer: year

country

character: name of the country

leadername

character: name of the leader who was targeted

age

integer: age of the targeted leader

politybefore

numeric: average polity score of the country during the three-year period prior to the attempt

polityafter

numeric: average polity score of the country during the three-year period after the attempt

interwarbefore

integer: 1 if the country is in international war during the three-year period prior to the attempt, 0 otherwise

interwarafter

integer: 1 if the country is in international war during the three-year period after the attempt, 0 otherwise

civilwarbefore

integer: 1 if the country is in civil war during the three-year period prior to the attempt, 0 otherwise

civilwarafter

integer: 1 if the country is in civil war during the three-year period after the attempt, 0 otherwise

result

character: result of the assassination attempt

Details

See QSS Table 2.8.

References

• Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

• Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken (2009) “Hit or miss? The effect of assassinations on institutions and war.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 55–87. doi: 10.3386/w13102

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