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Cross-national data on remittances and protest
Description
A data set to replicate the findings of Escrib\'a-Folch, Meseguer, and Wright (2018). Data and data descriptions are from that paper's replication data, available at doi:10.7910/DVN/TVZQG6
Usage
remit
Format
A data frame with 2429 observations and 14 variables:
- Protest
standardized measure of latent protest from Chenoweth et al. (2014)
- remit
natural log of the 2-year lagged moving average of total remittances received in constant US dollars
- dict
binary indicator of autocracy or democracy from Geddes, Wright, and Frantz (2014)
- l1gdp
natural log of one-period lagged gdp per capita
- l1pop
natural log of one-period lag of population
- l1nbr5
lagged mean latent level of protest in countries with capital cities within 4000km of the target country's capital
- l12gr
two-year lagged moving average of GDP per capita growth (in percent)
- l1migr
natural log of lagged net migration in millions
- elec3
indicator for multiparty election in that year, year prior, or year after
- cowcode
country code from correlates of war dataset
- period
six ordinal time periods
- caseid
numerical code for autocratic regime case name
- year
year
Source
References
Escrib\'a-Folch, A., Meseguer, C. and Wright, J. (2018), Remittances and Protest in Dictatorships. American Journal of Political Science, 62: 889-904. doi:10.1111/ajps.12382
Wright, Joseph, 2018, "Replication Data for: Remittances and Protest in Dictatorships", doi:10.7910/DVN/TVZQG6, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:IE6OqUb3EB5AIDYKI28mgA== [fileUNF]