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The Long-run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Description
a pseudo-panel of 49 countries
number of observations : 1212
number of individual observations : 2-112
country : Africa
package : countpanel
JEL codes: D72, D74, F51, J15, O15, O17, Z13
Chapter : 08
Usage
data(ScrambleAfrica)Format
A dataframe containing:
- country
country code
- group
ethnic group name
- conflicts
number of conflicts
- split
dummy for partitioned ethnic area
- spillover
spillover index, the fraction of adjacent groups in the same country that are partitioned
- region
the region
- pop
population according to the first post-independance census
- area
land area
- lake
lakes dummy
- river
rivers dummy
- capital
dummy if a capital city falls in the homeland of an ethnic group
- borderdist
distance of the centroid of the area from the national border
- capdist
distance of the centroid of the area from the capital
- seadist
distance of the centroid of the area from the sea coast
- coastal
dummy for areas that are by the sea coast
- meanelev
mean elevation
- agriculture
index of land suitability for agriculture
- diamond
diamond mine indicator
- malaria
malaria stability index
- petroleum
oil field indicator
- island
island dummy
- city1400
dummy for areas with major city in 1400
Source
American Economic Association Data Archive : https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/
References
Michalopoulos, Stelios and Elias Papaioannou (2016) “The Long-run Effects of the Scramble for Africa”, American Economic Review, 106(7), 1802–1848, doi: 10.1257/aer.20131311 .