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Expand Up @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Along the way, we'll discuss a variety of topics, including

As an example, we will replicate results from Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's seminal paper {cite}`Acemoglu2001`.

* You can download a copy [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220901051300/http://economics.mit.edu/files/4123).
* You can download a copy [here](https://economics.mit.edu/research/publications/colonial-origins-comparative-development-empirical-investigation).

In the paper, the authors emphasize the importance of institutions in economic development.

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- economic outcomes are proxied by log GDP per capita in 1995, adjusted for exchange rates.
- institutional differences are proxied by an index of protection against expropriation on average over 1985-95, constructed by the [Political Risk Services Group](https://www.prsgroup.com/).

These variables and other data used in the paper are available for download on Daron Acemoglu's [webpage](https://web.archive.org/web/20220901063129/http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data/ajr2001).
These variables and other data used in the paper are available for download on Daron Acemoglu's [webpage](https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu/data-archive).

We will use pandas' `.read_stata()` function to read in data contained in the `.dta` files to dataframes

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