SlaveTrade: Slave Trade and Economic Development
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Description
Usage
Format
Source
References
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Description
yearly observations of 51 states
number of observations : 52
country : africa
economic topic : development economics
econometrics topic : instrumental variable
Usage
1
Format
A time serie containing :
- country
the country name
- gdp
log real gdp per capita in 2000
- slaves
log of the number of slaves divided by the country area
- latitude
distance from equator
- longitude
longitude
- minrain
lowest monthly rainfall
- maxhumid
average maximum humidity
- lowtemp
average minimum temperature
- coastline
log coastlines divided by the country area
- island
island indicator
- islam
percent islamic
- gold
log gold production per inhabitant
- oil
log oil production per inhabitant
- diamonds
log diamonds production per inhabitant
- atldist
distance to the atlantic ocean
- inddist
distance to the indian ocean
- sahardist
distance to sahara
- redseadist
distance to the red sea
- colony
previous colonizator, one of 'none', 'uk', 'france', 'portugal', 'belgium', 'spain', 'germany', 'italy'
- region
one of 'north', 'east', 'central', 'south', 'west'
- legor
legal origin, one of 'french' and 'british'
Source
Nathan Nunn's website http://scholar.harvard.edu/nunn.
References
Nunn, Nathan (2008) “The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades”, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1), 139-176.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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Description Usage Format Source References See Also
Description
yearly observations of 51 states
number of observations : 52
country : africa
economic topic : development economics
econometrics topic : instrumental variable
Usage
1 |
Format
A time serie containing :
- country
the country name
- gdp
log real gdp per capita in 2000
- slaves
log of the number of slaves divided by the country area
- latitude
distance from equator
- longitude
longitude
- minrain
lowest monthly rainfall
- maxhumid
average maximum humidity
- lowtemp
average minimum temperature
- coastline
log coastlines divided by the country area
- island
island indicator
- islam
percent islamic
- gold
log gold production per inhabitant
- oil
log oil production per inhabitant
- diamonds
log diamonds production per inhabitant
- atldist
distance to the atlantic ocean
- inddist
distance to the indian ocean
- sahardist
distance to sahara
- redseadist
distance to the red sea
- colony
previous colonizator, one of 'none', 'uk', 'france', 'portugal', 'belgium', 'spain', 'germany', 'italy'
- region
one of 'north', 'east', 'central', 'south', 'west'
- legor
legal origin, one of 'french' and 'british'
Source
Nathan Nunn's website http://scholar.harvard.edu/nunn.
References
Nunn, Nathan (2008) “The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades”, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1), 139-176.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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