Replication Data for: US Disaster Aid and Bilateral Trade Growth (doi:10.7910/DVN/SYWU60)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: US Disaster Aid and Bilateral Trade Growth

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/SYWU60

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2016-01-23

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Timothy Peterson, 2016, "Replication Data for: US Disaster Aid and Bilateral Trade Growth", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SYWU60, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:OmMr7HUll9kGoliOu+rQIg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: US Disaster Aid and Bilateral Trade Growth

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/SYWU60

Authoring Entity:

Timothy Peterson (University of South Carolina)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Replication, FPA

Depositor:

Replication, FPA

Date of Deposit:

2016-01-23

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SYWU60

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

Previous research demonstrates that the decision to issue international disaster aid depends in part on the political relationship between donor and recipient countries. However, the reverse case – the impact of disaster aid on subsequent relationships – remains untested. In this paper, I demonstrate that, for states having recently suffered a natural disaster, a higher commitment of US disaster aid results in a subsequent increase in US-disaster victim trade. I use error correction models (ECMs) to assess the short- and long-term influence of US disaster aid on trade growth over the 1973-2008 period. My results suggest that an increase in disaster aid often leads to a subsequent increase in bilateral trade considerably larger than the initial aid commitment. I also find, controlling for other determinants of disaster aid, that preexisting trade with the US is not associated with a victim’s likelihood of receiving US aid. These findings are important for policy-makers, suggesting the presence of a material incentive to complement humanitarian imperatives to grant disaster assistance.

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Data Access

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f2777922

File: peterson_fpa_data.tab

  • Number of cases: 6506

  • No. of variables per record: 27

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • ccode - COW country code
  • year - year
  • disaster - disaster occurs this year
  • enter - disaster has occured since t0
  • issue - US disaster aid >0
  • lntrade - ln (US-ccode trade in constant dollars +1)
  • lntotcom - ln US disaster aid in constant dollars
  • discost_all - cost of disaster in terms of trade
  • lngdp - ln ccode GDP in constant dollars
  • lngdp_us - ln US GDP in constant dollars
  • lnpop - ln ccode population
  • polity2 - Polity combined score
  • S3UN - S3UN with United States
  • lnarabrat - arable land ratio (ccode/US)
  • lnpoprat - population ratio (ccode/US)
  • lncaprat - GDP per capita ratio (ccode/US)
  • lntcper - disaster aid as percentage of all aid
  • dis_yr - Time since last disaster
  • lndist - ln (distance +1)
  • av_deficit_gdp - US deficit as percentage of GDP
  • lngdppc - ln ccode GDP per capita in constant dollars
  • lndeath - ln (deaths from disaster +1)
  • lnallaid - ln (all US aid to ccode +1)
  • lnusexp - ln (US exports to ccode in constant dollars +1)
  • lnalltrade - ln (all ccode trade +1)
  • discost_exp - disaster cost as percentage of imports from US
  • lnallimp - ln (all ccode imports in constant dollars +1)

Variables

COW country code

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 20.0; Valid 6506.0; Mean 462.3747310175338; Max. 990.0; StDev 256.4012026019735

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:5gNuEtTgPS9XXmsLm2ClhA==

year

f2777922 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:7iCuD/aYeet4dRhYlrBpNQ==

disaster occurs this year

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.500018559948613; Valid 6506.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.49554257608361413; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Hjz6/Lcc4z7Lh0I06C1xgg==

disaster has occured since t0

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 6506.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.39267805613050394; Mean 0.8095604057792815;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ganR7GeE42bjra9fW9asfg==

US disaster aid >0

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.17417936233704956; StDev 0.3792934315965821; Valid 6367.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:rHKh0LMyvwYPUYMAsWS3oQ==

ln (US-ccode trade in constant dollars +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 3.6859762934435163; Valid 6291.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 27.616134643554688; Mean 20.59749847867499;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3SvyVRXp+yB2bOPuYPQRAg==

ln US disaster aid in constant dollars

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 21.409696578979492; Min. 0.0; StDev 5.565652778560035; Mean 2.506062431688961; Valid 6367.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8sZibb0BL20eDKeE5GyjSw==

cost of disaster in terms of trade

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.09102392082350969; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 5174.0; StDev 0.18105141357665863

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Hs1v4EjpJYfWwm/KUpMDhg==

ln ccode GDP in constant dollars

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.168502798415574; Valid 6037.0; Mean 24.006984348938502; Min. 18.827558517456055; Max. 29.988534927368164;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jUhRDmKYBIif3kViUn9Tlw==

ln US GDP in constant dollars

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 6506.0; StDev 0.2514414474809299; Mean 29.917761785962785; Min. 29.46711540222168; Max. 30.30657386779785

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TaMd+C40dkq6RajX3i6JHg==

ln ccode population

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 14.09585952758789; Mean 8.568513583765824; Min. 2.8252997398376465; Valid 6167.0; StDev 1.9290929801703898;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7ZPXcrE5gFg4NulE+y3T8Q==

Polity combined score

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 10.0; Min. -10.0; Mean 0.7097472924188601; StDev 7.450011221775878; Valid 5540.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vE97HjnEqXc3i6QwjQ5dMg==

S3UN with United States

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -1.0; Valid 6243.0; StDev 0.3357587538854132; Max. 1.0; Mean -0.23794023367259337;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HFhQTs7IeurKvDK/2DZMJg==

arable land ratio (ccode/US)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.3603493484552619; Max. 1.530203104019165; Valid 6080.0; Mean 0.47875609632312055

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3RInmSXzOO3NZ7vdiGeriw==

population ratio (ccode/US)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.7228378057479858; Mean 0.07941738546226856; Min. 6.409655907191336E-5; StDev 0.1930083183669209; Valid 6167.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:xJRScxBjeb8Z1MMHccbbMA==

GDP per capita ratio (ccode/US)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 6037.0; Max. 1.2616546154022217; Min. 0.004524618852883577; StDev 0.2169787318414897; Mean 0.21225607021817466

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+8/iG9O4ndFzvocOdUGdyw==

disaster aid as percentage of all aid

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.10845616655016256; Valid 6346.0; Mean 0.028234465288112805; Min. 0.0; Max. 0.6931484937667847;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:O0rBjkdsFq7ZqRpiKjQUPA==

Time since last disaster

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 3.9940812554855785; Max. 37.0; Valid 6506.0; Mean 2.1887488472179286

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:sIX2TuLQ9auksnYEvXaezg==

ln (distance +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 6506.0; StDev 0.9492584643445703; Max. 9.154828071594238; Min. 0.0; Mean 8.403110891498168

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:e3PNWIxLRL5EOq0SON/kvg==

US deficit as percentage of GDP

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -1.8624999523162842; StDev 1.9882287026755914; Valid 6506.0; Mean 2.559043569790925; Max. 8.797499656677246

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:gtTx8H20mmJLxtp3Ui/dDA==

ln ccode GDP per capita in constant dollars

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.280025599223355; Max. 11.646625518798828; Valid 6037.0; Mean 8.527099080881166; Min. 5.215165138244629

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dScaZX4wheI/mmQCd/4YaA==

ln (deaths from disaster +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 6339.0; Mean 2.0632212966149424; Min. 0.0; Max. 13.321327209472656; StDev 2.5075270391657716

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:InUo2C3dAIv55SqNlq/7yg==

ln (all US aid to ccode +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 8.990193280728871; Valid 6367.0; StDev 8.524706160837065; Max. 23.098308563232422; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:LKm63PUdXuEqE/kqpsR3fQ==

ln (US exports to ccode in constant dollars +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 26.184886932373047; Min. 0.0; Valid 6324.0; StDev 3.8590655706156913; Mean 19.148929977929747;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ERNuf3y3H7ZeHqPIDgAPog==

ln (all ccode trade +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.1915784087397774; Max. 28.57151985168457; Mean 22.900599448641323; Valid 6146.0; Min. 17.123188018798828

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jRFpfVcUR0UNwPAuPPR7Ig==

disaster cost as percentage of imports from US

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.09624176559606126; Max. 1.0; Valid 5257.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.19159706219794023

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:FbmOXg6j6pukyqE6mbwx7w==

ln (all ccode imports in constant dollars +1)

f2777922 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 6146.0; Mean 22.320975713608835; StDev 2.0859661244877366; Max. 27.75493621826172; Min. 16.66291618347168;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:aW39N9qIjQZJHXShbFbIdQ==

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