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Jan 4, 2015
Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; Rothenberg, Alexander, 2015, "Replication data for: Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities.", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28107, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Scholars have identified ethnic divisions as a leading cause of underdevelopment, due partially to their adverse effects on public goods. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world's poorest and most ethnically diverse countries. To address concerns over endogenous local ethnic composition, we use an instrumental variables... |
Jan 4, 2015
Barron, Manuel; Miguel, Edward; Satyanath, Shanker, 2015, "Replication data for: Economic Shocks and Democratization in Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28108, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The literature on the determinants of democratization was long dominated by a view that claimed a central role for economic development. Acemoglu et al. (2008, 2009) have recently challenged the robustness of empirical support for the modernization hypothesis. As an alternative they claim that democratization is likely to occur in moments of econom... |
Jan 4, 2015
Karol, David; Miguel, Edward, 2015, "Replication data for: The Electoral Cost of War: Iraq Casualties and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28106, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Many contend that President Bush's reelection and increased vote share in 2004 prove that the Iraq War was either electorally irrelevant or aided him. We present contrary evidence. Focusing on the change in Bush's 2004 showing compared to 2000, we discover that Iraq casualties from a state significantly depressed the President's vote share there. W... |
Miguel, Edward, 2015, "Replication data for: Poverty and Witch Killing", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27988, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:xfjMFATRFG0iIZ2kN+dIAQ== [fileUNF]
The data used to conduct the analysis was taken from a household survey which included data on rainfall, disease, violence against women labeled as witches and an assortment of miscellaneous household characteristics. |
Burke, Marshall; Miguel, Edward; Satyanath, Shanker; Dykema, John; Lobell, David, 2015, "Replication data for: Warming Increases the Risk of Civil War in Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28109, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Armed conflict within nations has had disastrous humanitarian consequences throughout much of the world. Here we undertake the first comprehensive examination of the potential impact of global climate change on armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. We find strong historical linkages between civil war and temperature in Africa, with warmer years lea... |
Miguel, Edward; Roland, Gerard, 2015, "Replication data for: The Long-run Impact of Bombing Vietnam", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28061, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:yfb+hovCzuxYeQB+hsgYsA== [fileUNF]
We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most intense bombing campaign in military history and had massive humanitarian costs. We use a unique U.S. military dataset containing bombing intensity at the district level (N = 584) to assess whether the war damage led to persistent l... |
Miguel, Edward; Mehlum, Halvor; Torvik, Ragnar, 2015, "Replication data for: Poverty and Crime in 19th Century Germany", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28092, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The data included information on rates of crime, annual rainfall in meters and the prices of rye in Germany. |
Bellows, John; Miguel, Edward, 2014, "Replication data for: War and Local Collective Action in Sierra Leone", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27984, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:5:+0y7YtbSeineNJjIO/BdNg== [fileUNF]
The study uses high quality nationally representative household data from Sierra Leone containing detailed information on household experiences with war violence as well as on immediate postwar political and collective action behaviors. The study also incorporated Chiefdom-level data on the number of reported attacks and battles during the civil wa... |
Hsiang, Solomon M.; Burke, Marshall; Miguel, Edward, 2015, "Replication data for: Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28062, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:fx4RglQEMU1QwXiStXzs9w== [fileUNF]
A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies and document, for the first time, a remarkable convergence of results. We f... |
Fisman, Raymond; Miguel, Edward, 2014, "Replication data for: Corruption, Norms and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28059, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:SO7LUAf23glz90q8PQcvyw== [fileUNF]
We study cultural norms and legal enforcement in controlling corruption by analyzing the parking behavior of United Nations officials in Manhattan. Until 2002, diplomatic immunity protected UN diplomats from parking enforcement actions, so diplomats' actions were constrained by cultural norms alone. We find a strong effect of corruption norms: dipl... |
