Data
Datasets:
- Wage Data for India 1873-1884 and 1873-1906
- Please cite: "Demographic Shocks and Women's Labor Market Participation"
- Indian City Populations by Sex with Latitude and Longitude 1881-1931
- Indian District Populations by Religion and Sex 1931
- Indian District Populations by Sex 1881-1931
- Railway Shapefile with Opening Dates
- Please cite: "Railways and Cities in India"
- Famines in Colonial India (note)
- Please cite: Srivastava, as well as "Railways and Cities in India"
- Shapefile of Indian Districts, 1931
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Please cite: "Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India"
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Please cite: "The Green Revolution and Infant Mortality in India"
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Please cite: "Intra-Household Labor Allocation in Colonial Nigeria"
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Please cite: "Polygamy and child mortality: Historical and modern evidence from Nigeria's Igbo"
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Please cite: "Land Abundance and Economic Institutions: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914"
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- Please cite: McEvedy and Jones, as well as "Does Land Abundance Explain African Institutions?"
- A crosswalk between modern Indian subdistricts from gadm.org and historic districts from both the Administrative Atlas of India and statoids.
- Please cite: "Missing Women in Colonial India"
Replication Files:
- Railways and Cities in India
- Fetal Origins of Mental Health: Evidence From Africa
- Conflict and the formation of political beliefs in Africa
- Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan
- Demographic Shocks and Women's Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India
- Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India
- Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India
- Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
- The data for this paper are stored on a server. Please contact Gaurav.
- The Green Revolution and Infant Mortality in India
- Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
- Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
- Polygamy and child mortality: Historical and modern evidence from Nigeria's Igbo
- Oil and ethnic inequality in Nigeria
- 1807: Economic shocks, conflict and the slave trade
- Intra-Household Labor Allocation in Colonial Nigeria
- African polygamy: Past and present
- Climate and the slave trade
- Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin
- The battle for rubber in Benin
- This paper does not use data.
- Ecology, trade, and states in pre-colonial Africa
- Imachi nkwu: Trade and the commons
- This paper does not use data.
- Does land abundance explain African institutions?
- Revealed preference tests of the Cournot model
- "Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed development in Benin, 1897-1921
- This paper does not use data.
- Partition, migration, and jute cultivation in India
- Land Abundance and Economic Institutions: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914
- Land tenure and investment incentives: Evidence from West Africa
- L'Étranger: Status, property rights, and investment incentives in Cote d'Ivoire