load_colonial_origins
data.load_colonial_origins()Load the Colonial Origins cross-section (Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson 2001).
A country-level cross-section (163 countries, no time dimension) carrying the variables of the famous settler-mortality IV example: log GDP per capita in 1995, average protection against expropriation risk (the endogenous regressor), and log settler mortality (the instrument), plus geography, colonizer and religion covariates and a base_sample flag for the 64-country base sample. The canonical teaching dataset for :func:expdpy.analyze_iv_regression. Source: Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001), “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development”, American Economic Review 91(5).