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Daron Acemoglu

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002)

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, November 2002: pp. 1231-1294.

Instructions: To download the zipped data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables and figures in Reversal of Fortune, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.

Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher

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Table 1: Summary Statistics

Table 2: Urbanization and Per Capita Income

Table 3: Urbanization in 1500 and GDP per Capita in 1995 for Former European Colonies

Table 4: Alternative Measures of Urbanization

Table 5: Population Density and GDP Per Capita in Former European Colonies

Table 6: Robustness Checks for Urbanization and Log population Density

Table 7: Urbanization, Population Density, and Institutions

Table 8: GDP Per Capita and Institutions

Table 9: The Interaction of UK Industrialization and Institutions