this file has been compiled by Antonio Spilimbergo with the help of Rafael Romeu and Adrian De La Garza. It is based on the Reinhart-Rogoff (2002) June 7 2002 version. A readme.txt file explains the 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 (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.
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
SGCI are Specialized Governmental Credit Institutions
this file contains a subset of the COW Inter-State War Data, 1816-1997 The files were obtained from the site http://cow2.la.psu.edu/cow2dslist.htm organized as a panel
21 Jan 2003 16:30 date of creation
The following variables have been checked in check1.do:
1) rgdpch 2) ifsinf 3) pwtopen 4) wgbdef
Also spot-checking on regime variables
update fhp from website
the availability of some variables, like unemployment, are poor