war {GJRM.data}R Documentation

Civil war data

Description

Civil war data from Fearon and Laitin (2003).

Usage

data(war)

Format

war is a 6326 row data frame with the following columns:

onset

equal to 1 for all country-years in which a civil war started.

instab

equal to 1 if unstable government.

oil

equal to 1 for oil exporter country.

cwar

equal to 1 if the country had a distinct civil war ongoing in the previous year.

gdp

GDP per capita (measured as thousands of 1985 U.S. dollars) lagged one year.

ncontig

equal to 1 for non-contiguous state.

nwstate

equal to 1 for new state.

lpop

log(population size).

lmnt

log(mountainous).

ethfrac

measure of ethnic fractionalization (calculated as the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from a country are not from the same ethnicity).

relfrac

measure of religious fractionalisation.

poldem

measure of political democracy (ranges from -10 to 10) lagged one year.

Source

Data are from:

Fearon J.D., Laitin D.D. (2003), Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War. The American Political Science Review, 97, 75-90.


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