1a. Horizontal spreadsheet: 749 columns (.xlsx file). About 100 variables including economic output, income inequality, income poverty, unemployment, basic needs, birth rate, mortality rates, female/male population ratio, urbanization, health spending, health service utilization, literacy, educational attainment, voter turnout, electoral laws, election results, and women in provincial legislatures. Many of these variables are measured in more than one year; some are measured in more than 30 consecutive years. These data were used in “Political Factors and Health Outcomes: Insight from Argentina’s Provinces,” a Research Paper for the Human Development Report 2010. Some data were added after that paper was submitted.

1b: Vertical spreadsheet: 35 columns (.xls file). Long time series for most variables. The data are stacked for time-series cross-sectional analysis.

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2. 104 Developing Countries in 1990 Database

104 developing countries, 237 variables
Most observations from around 1990
These data were used in my March 2006 World Development article

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3. 47 Developing Countries in 1995 Database

47 developing countries, 196 variables
Most observations from around 1995
These data were used in my March 2006 World Development article

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4. 92 Developing Countries Time Series Cross Sectional Database

92 developing countries, 45 variables
Observed, data permitting, in 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995

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5. 173 Countries Database

173 countries, 156 variables
Many observed for 1960 and c. 1995; others go back to 1870

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6. 20 Latin American Countries Database

20 Latin American countries, 150 variables
Some measured at multiple points in time, including as early as 1900

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7. Brazilian States Database (Zuleika Arashiro and James McGuire)

27 Brazilian states (or 16 where data unavailable for Amazon and Center-West states)
51 variables, many measured at multiple points in time

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8. Strikes in Argentina 1984-1993 Database

3,406 strikes from January 1984 to December 1993
Each strike coded on 14 dimensions

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9. Data used in Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

On this website
On the Cambridge University Press webpage for the book

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10. Data used in ”Authoritarianism in the Middle East”

To reproduce the analyses in our paper and in PetersMcGuireRobustness.pdf, download PetersMcGuireStataDoFileInstructions.pdf and follow them. You’ll need a not-too-ancient edition of both Excel and Stata.

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