COW country id number
country name
start year of war/conflict
Total dths est., based on IISS/Sivard but modified
estimate of war duration in years
1 = rebels aim at center, 3 = aim at exit or autonomy, 2 = mixed or ambig.
Id for case, usually name of rebel group(s)
short country name
war ends = 1, 0 = ongoing
0 = not ethnic, 1 = ambig/mixed, 2 = ethnic
years in war
rebel leaders initially members of nat'l govt or army
popular revolution in capitol
coup or revolution case
anticolonial war
sons of soil case
evidence of signif. contraband financing of rebels
region fighting is not contiguous with center
population, in 1000s
log(pop)
revised polity score
gdp/cap based on pwt5.6, wdi2001,cow energy data; metropoles
source/type of gdp/pop estimate
log(gdpen)
MAR region id
Dummy for Western Democracies & Japan
Dummy for Eastern Europe
Dummy for Latin America
Dummy for Sub-Saharan Africa
Dummy for Asia (-Japan)
Dummy for North Africa/Middle East
elf with additions for missing in 1964
share of second largest ethnic group (2002 apsa paper)
eth frac computed from Fearon JoEG 03 paper
share of largest eth group (Fearon JoEG 03 paper)
lagged lgdpen
lagged gdp/cap, metropoles
lagged lpop
log(% mountainous+1); see Fearon/Laitin 03
lagged Polity democ-autoc indicator
population, for whole empires as appropriate
ethnic fractionalization, computed for whole empires when appropriate
gdp/cap from gdpenl, modifed as approp. for empires
log(lagged empop)
log(dth/durest)