Fiscal, governance, and control variables for paper submitted to World Development
Description
The data include fiscal variables from UNU-WIDER (originally ICTD); economic control variables from Penn World Table and World Development Indicators; the Economic Complexity Index from the Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard); political regime characteristics from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), World Governance Indicators, and Polity V; year and unit dummies; and a variety of variables derived or transformed from these. The do-files include the code followed for each of the key regressions, indexed by the table in which they appear, including tables for model selection and diagnostics in the article's appendix.
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Steps to reproduce
"Tests on base data" use the FC 2026 dataset. The MICE processes use the specialized datasets in the named folder. The do-files for each set of MI analyses (Tables 6a-d) call out the unimputed data in the first command line. The rests is self-explanatory.
Institutions
- Williams CollegeMassachusetts, Williamstown