PWT6.2 data for rgdpl openk kg pop kc
Polity2 and xconst from Polity IV data set
Polity2: -10 (autocracy); 10 (democracy)
Xconst: 1 (unlimited authority executive)
Xconst: 7 (executive parity/subordination)
Series on Financial Depth (dcredbk m3gdp
quasigdp ispread), Gini coefficient, and
education(literacy primschl primschlenr
secschlenr) all from WDI
Regional Groupings
P East Asia & Pacific
E Europe & Central Asia
L Latin America & Caribbean
M Middle East & North Africa
S South Asia
A Sub-Saharan Africa
Income Groupings
1 High income: OECD
2 High income: nonOECD
3 Upper middle income
4 Lower middle income
5 Low income
Debtor Groupings
. Debt not classified
1 Severely indebted
2 Moderately indebted
3 Less indebted
DEU designates FRG between 1949 and 1989
CZE designates CZS between 1949 and 1992
RUS designates SUN between 1949 and 1991
KOR designates RKO since 1949
the countries with no entry cost data are mainly small probably not in service trade data.
data drawn from WDI for the year 2005 (earliest year available).
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
Interstate, CIVIL and extrastate wars, by nation year, when multiple wars then only consider largest (by deaths)
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
data drawn from WDI for the years 2005 (earliest year available) - 2010.
subjected to a carryforward operation