The Economic Benefits of Justice

Description

A data set on the apparent economic benefits of post-conflict justice

Usage

EBJ

Format

A data frame with 95 observations on the following 12 variables.

testnewid_lag

an apparent identifier variable, of some description

ccode

a Correlates of War(?) state code for the location of a conflict

id

an apparent identifier variable, of some description

pcj

a dummy variable for whether there was some kind of post-conflict justice institution created after a conflict

fdi

a variable on net FDI inflows over a 10-year period after a conflict (in millions USD)

econ_size

GDP, as an estimate of economic size

econ_devel

GDP per capita, as an estimate of economic development

econ_growth

GDP per capita change, as an estimate of economic growth

kaopen

KAOPEN index score, as an estimate of capital openness

xr

exchange rate fluctuations, as an indicator of exchange rate instability

lf

labor force size

lifeexp

average life expectancy for women, in years

Details

Data are taken Appell and Loyle's (2012) replication data set. Users should read their article in Journal of Peace Research for more information about the topic, the stake, and how the data were collected. This is just a simple, reduced form of the data they make available that is minimally sufficient for reproducing the first model of their Table I.

References

Appell, Benjamin J. and Cyanne E. Loyle. 2012. "The Economic Benefits of Justice: Post-conflict Justice and Foreign Direct Investment" 49(5): 685–99.