Sorry, but I had to share this. Still amazed by the amount of the data lying around - can there be a Google to standardize and feed them into an Uberdataset? CKAN might be a nice option.....
From DevEconData, a great newsfeed for the newest datasets....
Philip M. Parker's Economic Growth Databases
This is a great source of control variables for any cross-country empirical analysis. Temperature and humidity data included in "Country Statistics" is used by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) for a robustness check. Land area, the length of the coastline, and the percentage of a country's population that is Islamic (as well as temperature and humidity) included in "Country Statistics" is used by Nunn (2008) to create control variables.
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Wait, what? "The length of the coastline"? In what dimension? (Cf. Mandelbrot 1967)
ReplyDeleteWell I guess it's really just km - I know what you are hinting at, but coastlines are certainly not infinite, at least for cross-country regressions ;)
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