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.
Please consult appendix A of the paper Why Countries are Fiscally Decentralizing, Journal of Public Economics, 2004 and the additional documents provided with this data for definition of the variables and exact sources.
The federalism variable is revised for India. 10/4/02
World Bank, World Development Report, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI) on CD-Rom, Washington D.C.: World Bank, 1998.
United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects: The 1996 Revision, United Nations Population Division, Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, New York, 1996.
Summers, R., and A. Heston, Penn World Table Mark 5.6 revision of Summers and Heston (1991) online data, Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), Toronto: University of Toronto, 1995.
Summers, R., and A. Heston, The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, 327-68, 1991.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Telecommunication Statistics, Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, various years.
International Road Federation (IRF), World Road Statistics, Washington D.C.: International Road Federation, various years.
Freedom House, Freedom in the World, New York: Freedom House, various years.
The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), World Factbook, Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office, various years.
Barro, R.J., and J.W.Lee, International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality online data, World Bank Economic Growth Research Group, Washington D.C.: World Bank, 1996.
Barro, R.J., and J.W.Lee, International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality, American Economic Review, 86(2), 218-223, 1996.
Barro, R.J., and J.W.Lee, International Comparisons of Educational Attainment, Journal of Monetary Economics, 32, 363-394, 1993.
To see all the documentation, type note on the Stata command line. To see a description of the variables, type desc on the command line. To see only the note for a particular variable, type note varname on the command line, where varname is the name of the variable. To see a list of countries, type list wbcode country if year==90 on the command line.
Fiscal decentralization database is a panel of data on indices of fiscal decentralization every ten years from 1975, 1985, and 1995 for about 100 countries. The main variables, fiscal decentralization indices, are constructed using IMF's GFS database and publications. The data were prepared by Vernon Henderson (Vernon_Henderson@brown.edu) and Mohammd Arzaghi (marzaghi@brown.edu). Please properly cite our paper, Why Countries are Fiscally Decentralizing, in the Journal of Public Economics 2005.
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.
Falciparum malaria index = % of pop at risk of transmission * (falciparum cases/total malaria cases)
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.
Interstate, CIVIL and extrastate wars, by nation year, when multiple wars then only consider largest (by deaths)
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
dropped Germany (ccode = 255) for lack of data, added missing cases for Czechoslovakia to match to cyear2 data