3 letter country name
European settlers 1900, AJR
=1 if was colony FLOPS definiti
average protection against expropriation risk
log PPP GDP pc in 1995, World Bank
cons on exec in 1st year indep
democracy in 1900
constraint on executive in 1900
corrected mortality
log settler mortality
log GDP per work, Hall&Jones
base sample Colonial Origins paper
dummy=1 for Africa
Abs(latitude of capital)/90
dummy=1 if not in Asia, Africa, or the Americas
=1 for all of asia
dummy=1 for neo-europes
catho as %pop 1980 wce95
muslims as % pop 1980 wce95
100-Cath-Protest-Muslim in 1980
BritishColony(Flopsexpsn)
FrenchColony(Flopsexpans)
French legal orgin recoded
ethno fract avg 5indic east_lev
first of 5 temperature indicators
first of four humidity indicators
first of six soil indicators
% of European descent in 1975
=1 if landlocked
first of five mineral indicators
Falciparum malaria index 1994
=1 if vector y.fever present today
life expectancy at birth (1995)
infant mortality rate (1995)
mean temperature (McArthur and Sachs)
amount of territory within 100 km of the coast (McArthur and Sachs)
absolute latitude (McArthur and Sachs)
democracy in first year of independence
years independent: 1995 minus firstyr
full country name
Step in data construction
Original Settler Mortality
Original Log Settler Mortality
Exp Risk
Log GDP per capita (PPP) in 1995
Original mortality from campaign
Data from forced labor
Country source of own m. rate
Absolute value of latitude
'New-Europes'(USA,CAN,AUS,NZL)
Malaria in 1994
Other Continent with USA & CAN
Law and Order Tradition in 1995
AJR's 'Earliest Available Data'