slave_trade {necountries} | R Documentation |
a cross-section of 52 countries from 2000
a tibble containing:
country: the country name
region: one of 'north', 'east', 'central', 'south', 'west'
disteq: distance from equator
longitude: longitude
area: area in thousands of km squared
pop: average population during the slave trade period
coastline: log coastlines divided by the country area
island: island indicator
islam: percent islamic
colony: previous colonizator, one of 'none', 'uk', 'france', 'portugal', 'belgium', 'spain', 'germany', 'italy'
legor: legal origin, one of 'french' and 'british'
gdp: log real gdp per capita in 2000
slaves: number of slaves
slavesarea: number of slaves divided by the country area
humidmax: average maximum humidity
rainmin: lowest month rainfall
lowtemp: average minimum temperature
gold: log gold production per inhabitant
oil: log oil production per inhabitant
diamond: log diamonds production per inhabitant
atlantic: distance to the atlantic ocean
indian: distance to the indian ocean
redsea: distance to the red sea
sahara: distance to sahara
Nathan Nunn's website https://nathannunn.arts.ubc.ca/
Nunn N (2008). “The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1), 139–176. ISSN 00335533, 15314650, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098896.