end_dem = 0: country is dem in previous AND current year (democracy does not end)
end_dem = 1: country is dem in previous, dic in current year (democracy ends)
end_dem = 2: country is dic in previous year (no democracy to end)
end_dic = 0: country is dic in previous AND current year (autocracy does not end)
end_dic = 1: country is dic in previous, dem in current year (autocracy ends)
end_dic = 2: country is dem in previous year (no autocracy to end)
gdpppp95 data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; */
Falciparum malaria index = % of pop at risk of transmission * (falciparum cases/total malaria cases)
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 (February 2003):75-90. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, Additional Tables for Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
dropped Germany (ccode = 255) for lack of data, added missing cases for Czechoslovakia to match to cyear2 data
wbgdp gives federal republic data for Germany. unclear if Czech data refers to Czechoslovakia or only the Czech part.
JF changed estimates for GDR, which appeared to be mistaken for FRG, 8/6/01.