10.17889/E109647
Acemoglu, Daron
Johnson, Simon
Robinson, James A.
Replication data for: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2012
10.1257/aer.102.6.3077
10.1257/aer.102.6.3077
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Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) established that economic institutions today are correlated with expected mortality of European colonialists. David Albouy argues this relationship is not robust. He drops all data from Latin America and much of the data from
Africa, making up almost 60 percent of our sample, despite much information on the mortality of Europeans in those places during the colonial period. He also includes a \"campaign\" dummy that
is coded inconsistently; even modest corrections undermine his claims. We also show that limiting the effect of outliers strengthens our results, making them robust to even extreme versions of Albouy's critiques. (JEL D02, E23, F54, I12, N40, O43, P14)