Transition Economies are taken from the file Fixed Factors in Global Development Database in worldbank.org
Interstate, CIVIL and extrastate wars, by nation year, when multiple wars then only consider largest (by deaths)
Dataset for Sachs, Jeffrey, Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income, NBER February 2003.
Regression results differ from NBER (2003) because malaria ecology variable (ME) and mal94p variables have been updated
29 Apr 2006 23:22 fixedfactors.dta comes from Easterly's website (Social Indicators and Fixed Factors)
29 Dec 2003 21:33 For further explanation of allpd1500.dta see allpopden1500.xls
dropped Germany (ccode = 255) for lack of data, added missing cases for Czechoslovakia to match to cyear2 data
wbgdp gives federal republic data for Germany. unclear if Czech data refers to Czechoslovakia or only the Czech part.
Exceptions to averaging deaths over conflict years include Rwanda and Nagorno Karabagh.
For c variable, pre-1973 values are set 1973 value if missing
All interaction terms are from centered component variables
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.