R/rd-GHR04.R

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#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being
#'
#' This is a data set for replicating Ghobarah et al. (2004), a reduced form of
#'  what they make available on Dataverse for replication. Variables have been
#'  renamed for legibility.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 182 observations on the following 15 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{country}}{a character vector denoting a country name}
#' \item{\code{iso3c}}{a three-character ISO code for the country}
#' \item{\code{pubhlthexppgdp}}{a numeric vector for public health expenditures as a percentage of GDP}
#' \item{\code{totexphlth}}{a numeric vector for total expenditures on health}
#' \item{\code{hale}}{a numeric vector for health adjusted life expectancy (in years)}
#' \item{\code{log_gdppc}}{a numeric vector for (log-transformed) GDP per capita}
#' \item{\code{gini}}{a numeric vector for income inequality}
#' \item{\code{log_educ}}{a numeric vector for (log-transformed) educational attainment}
#' \item{\code{log_vanhanen}}{a numeric vector for (log-transformed) racial-linguistic-religious heterogeneity}
#' \item{\code{rivalry}}{a dummy variable indicating the presence of an enduring international rivalry for the country}
#' \item{\code{polity}}{a numeric vector communicating a Polity score, as a measure of the democratic nature of the country's regime}
#' \item{\code{prvhlthexpgdp}}{a numeric vector for private spending on health as a percentage of GDP}
#' \item{\code{urban_growth}}{a numeric vector for the pace of urbanization}
#' \item{\code{cwdeaths}}{a numeric vector for civil war deaths}
#' \item{\code{contig_cw}}{a dummy variable communicating whether there is a civil war in a geographically contiguous territory}
#' }
#'
#' @details The three-character ISO code is the only new addition to the data. I
#' add this because the country names they have in the data are not neat and may
#' lead users astray if they wanted to search for a specific observation. The
#' ISO code for Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) around this time was "SCG".
#'
#' The data the authors make available come with no .do file to indicate what
#' exactly they used. Some forensic work based on the descriptive statistics they
#' mention led to this reduced form of their data, which almost perfectly replicates
#' their results. The differences are typically in the hundredths, and often in
#' the thousandths, and should be considered "good enough" for replication
#' purposes. The only real confusion on my end is why I ended up with one more
#' observation than they report in their analyses. This suggests one (or more?)
#' of their variables they use has an `NA`, but I have no way of knowing what it
#' could be.
#'
#' @source
#'
#' Ghobarah, Hazem Adam, Paul Huth, and Bruce Russett. 2004. "Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being" International Studies Quarterly 48: 73-94
#'
"GHR04"