(sum) tradeflow_gdpo
(sum) imports_gdpo
(sum) putt_migshare
Frankel and Romer - Linear in logs
Linear in logs plus colonial ties
PPML plus colonial ties
Linear in logs plus colonial ties and border interactions
Linear in logs plus colonial ties and trade agreements and conflict
Like 5 but PPML
Linear in logs plus colonial ties plus interaction with distance
Linear in logs with colonial ties and border interactions AND FIXED EFFECTS. The
Linear in logs PLUS ONE plus colonial ties
(sum) tradesh8fe
(sum) importsh1
(sum) importsh2
(sum) importsh3
(sum) importsh4
(sum) importsh5
(sum) importsh6
(sum) importsh7
(sum) ertotal
(sum) ertotal2
(sum) er1
(sum) er2
(sum) er3
(sum) er4
(sum) er5
(sum) er6
(sum) er7
(sum) irtotal
(sum) irlow
(sum) irhigh
(sum) irtotal1
(sum) ir8fe
(mean) lnpopo
(mean) lnareao
(mean) gdp_o
POP
emigration rate from Puttermann and weil: emigrants/resident
Country Name
Ethnic Fractionalization
Language Fractionalization
Religuous Fractionalization
Polity IV Democratization Index
Original Settler Mortality
Alternative mortality rates
Economic Organization/ Institutional Quality
(mean) land_locked
Area in km2
longitude of country centroid
mean m above sea level
mean distance to coast or river
mean distance to coast
mean distance to river
% land area in geographical tropics
%pop ('95) in geographical tropics
%area 100km from icefree coast
%area 100km from icefree coast or sea-nav. river
1995 pop (from GPWv2)
typical pop density experienced
%pop ('95) 100km from icefree coast
%pop ('95) 100km from icefree coast or sea-nav. river
dist centroid to coast(km)
dist centroid to coast/riv (km)
latitude of country centroid
Political Rights (1-7)
Civil Liberties (1-7)
Freedom status (free/partially free/not free)
European settlers 1900, AJR
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)
years independent: 1995 minus firstyr
UK legal orgin recoded
excolonies new list
log(pd1500s)
Log Ave. CPI Inflation
Ave. gov. consumption as % GDP
average  bereale 1970-1998
Protestants&MgProtestantsin1980
Simeon extended formalism (check)
constraint on exec, av 1990s
stk market cap
credit to private sector
average ci  if yr>=1990 & yr<2000
HF: Property Rights '97
number of procedures
procedural complexity
1980 rel_y
1980 rel_kya
1980 rel_h
1980 rel_a
2000 rel_y
2000 rel_kya
2000 rel_h
2000 rel_a
Gini
Docquier data year 2000, Observed labor force (all edu levels) = native stayers
Docquier data year 2000, Observed labor force (unskilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Observed labor force (skilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Native stayers (all edu levels)
Docquier data year 2000, Native stayers (unskilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Native stayers (skilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Immigrants (all edu levels)
Docquier data year 2000, Immigrants (unskilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Immigrants (skilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Emigrants (all edu levels)
Docquier data year 2000, Emigrants (unskilled)
Docquier data year 2000, Emigrants (skilled)
Docquier data year 2000, All natives (all edu levels) = native stayers plus nati
Docquier data year 2000, All natives (unskilled)
Docquier data year 2000, All natives (skilled)
Docquier data year 2000, HK observed labor force = all_unskilled + 1.503*all_ski
Docquier data year 2000, HK observed labor force (only immigrants)
Docquier data year 2000, Share of HK contributed by the immigrants = hk_fb / hk_
country belongs to the 150-country sample in Frankel and Romer
country belongs to the 98-country sample in Mankiw Romer and Weill
Country of Origin
Patent grants by country of origin and patent office (Avg. 1995-2010)
Number of resident patent filings per million population (Avg. 1995-2010)