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Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) Dataset
Description
Cross-country dataset used to construct Table 4 of Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001).
Usage
colonial
Format
A data frame with 64 rows and 9 variables:
- shortnam
three letter country abbreviation, e.g. AUS for Australia
- africa
dummy variable =1 if country is in Africa
- lat_abst
absolute distance to equator (scaled between 0 and 1)
- rich4
dummy variable, =1 for "Neo-Europes" (AUS, CAN, NZL, USA)
- avexpr
Average protection against expropriation risk. Measures risk of government appropriation of foreign private investment on a scale from 0 (least risk) to 10 (most risk). Averaged over all years from 1985-1995.
- logpgp95
Natural logarithm of per capita GDP in 1995 at purchasing power parity
- logem4
Natural logarithm of European settler mortality
- asia
dummy variable, =1 if country is in Asia
- loghjypl
Natural logarithm of output per worker in 1988
Source
http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data/ajr2001
References
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.91.5.1369