This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Table 1 in James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, Ethnicity,Insurgency, and Civil War, _American Political Science Review_ 97, 1 (February 2003):75-90. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, Additional Tables for Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
All interaction terms are from centered component variables
For c variable, pre-1973 values are set 1973 value if missing
Exceptions to averaging deaths over conflict years include Rwanda and Nagorno Karabagh.
wbgdp gives federal republic data for Germany. unclear if Czech data refers to Czechoslovakia or only the Czech part.
dropped Germany (ccode = 255) for lack of data, added missing cases for Czechoslovakia to match to cyear2 data
Interstate, CIVIL and extrastate wars, by nation year, when multiple wars then only consider largest (by deaths)
This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Tables 1-4 in Macartan Humphreys, Natural Resources, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, _Journal of Conflict Resolution_ 49, 4 (August 2005):508-537. Further information on the data is contained in the article. To replicate the results in the article use the accompanying do file MH8JCR05.do
Also spot-checking on regime variables
1) rgdpch 2) ifsinf 3) pwtopen 4) wgbdef
The following variables have been checked in check1.do:
21 Jan 2003 16:30 date of creation
This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Table 1 in James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, _American Political Science Review_ 97, 1 (March, 2003):1-17. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, , at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
this file contains a subset of the COW Inter-State War Data, 1816-1997 The files were obtained from the site http://cow2.la.psu.edu/cow2dslist.htm organized as a panel
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
this file has been compiled by Antonio Spilimbergo with the help of Rafael Romeu and Adrian De La Garza. It is based on the Reinhart-Rogoff (2002) June 7 2002 version. A readme.txt file explains the variables
ISIC Classification is Revision 2
capital expendiures is the median of capital expenditure defined as ratio of capital expenditures to net property plan and equipment
external dependence is the median of external financing defined as the fraction of capital expenditures not financed with cash flow from operations (cash flow from operations is broadly defined as the sum of COMPUSTAT funds from operations, decreases in inventories, decreases in receivables and increases in payables
YOUNG indicates a company that went public from less than 10 years
MATURE indicates a company that have been public for at least ten year
this dataset is built from Rajan and Zingales table 1 in AER Vol88 N.3 June 1998
3 Less indebted
2 Moderately indebted
1 Severely indebted
. Debt not classified
Debtor Groupings
5 Low income
4 Lower middle income
3 Upper middle income
2 High income: nonOECD
1 High income: OECD
Income Groupings
A Sub-Saharan Africa
S South Asia
M Middle East & North Africa
L Latin America & Caribbean
E Europe & Central Asia
P East Asia & Pacific
Regional Groupings
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