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 Additions include:
 
 - `DCE12`: a data set on domestic conflict events in 2012, useful for teaching about regression of count data.
+- `EBJ`: a data set on the economic benefits of post-conflict justice institutions.
 
 Updates include:
 
 - `DJIA` has more recent data and fixes an unfortunate gap from 1985 to 1992.
+- Assorted documentation updates.
 
 # stevedata 1.1.0
 

R/rd-DCE12.R

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 #' \item{\code{assassinations}}{the count of assassinations in 2012}
 #' \item{\code{strikes}}{the count of general strikes in 2012}
 #' \item{\code{guerwar}}{the count of guerilla warfare events in 2012}
-#' \item{\code{gvotcrises}}{the count of government crises in 2012}
+#' \item{\code{govtcrises}}{the count of government crises in 2012}
 #' \item{\code{purges}}{the count of purges in 2012}
 #' \item{\code{riots}}{the count of riots in 2012}
 #' \item{\code{revolutions}}{the count of revolutions in 2012}
@@ -37,13 +37,21 @@ NULL
 #' important question of real-world inference.
 #'
 #' Data on the democracy estimate and tertiary school enrollment rate come from
-#' the Varieties of Democracy project. Population estimates come from the UN
-#' Population Division. GDP per capita comes from the World Bank. The estimate
-#' of land area (in square kilometers) come from the CNTS. Country name comes
-#' from CNTS as well.
-#'
-#' Democracy estimate for Palestine comes as a simple average of the two
-#' Palestinian territories collected by the Varieties of Democracy project.
-#' These are West Bank and Gaza.
+#' the Varieties of Democracy project. Democracy estimate for Palestine comes as
+#' a simple average of the two Palestinian territories collected by the
+#' Varieties of Democracy project. These are West Bank and Gaza. The tertiary
+#' school enrollment variable, which originally comes from a data project by
+#' Barro and Lee (2013), is "filled" to the referent year from the most recent
+#' year available in the data. That would be 2010. It's fine for this purpose.
+#'
+#' Population estimates come from the UN Population Division. GDP per capita
+#' comes from the World Bank. The estimate of land area (in square kilometers)
+#' comes from the CNTS. Country name comes from CNTS as well.
+#'
+#' In all but the case of the data from CNTS, and the "filled" case of the
+#' tertiary school enrollment variable, the referent year for the data is 2011.
+#' Not that anyone is going to care too much for a simple data set like this,
+#' but this would be the ol' endogeneity concern.
+#'
 #'
 "DCE12"

R/rd-EBJ.R

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+#' @importFrom tibble tibble
+NULL
+
+#' The Economic Benefits of Justice
+#'
+#' A data set on the apparent economic benefits of post-conflict justice
+#'
+#' @format A data frame with 95 observations on the following 12 variables.
+#' \describe{
+#' \item{\code{testnewid_lag}}{an apparent identifier variable, of some description}
+#' \item{\code{ccode}}{a Correlates of War(?) state code for the location of a conflict}
+#' \item{\code{id}}{an apparent identifier variable, of some description}
+#' \item{\code{pcj}}{a dummy variable for whether there was some kind of post-conflict justice institution created after a conflict}
+#' \item{\code{fdi}}{a variable on net FDI inflows over a 10-year period after a conflict (in millions USD)}
+#' \item{\code{econ_size}}{GDP, as an estimate of economic size}
+#' \item{\code{econ_devel}}{GDP per capita, as an estimate of economic development}
+#' \item{\code{kaopen}}{KAOPEN index score, as an estimate of capital openness}
+#' \item{\code{xr}}{exchange rate fluctuations, as an indicator of exchange rate instability}
+#' \item{\code{lifeexp}}{average life expectancy for women, in years}
+#' }
+#'
+#' @details
+#'
+#' Data are taken Appell and Loyle's (2012) replication data set. Users should
+#' read their article in *Journal of Peace Research* for more information about
+#' the topic, the stake, and how the data were collected. This is just a simple,
+#' reduced form of their data that is minimally sufficient for reproducing the
+#' first model of their Table I.
+#'
+#' @references
+#'
+#' Appell, Benjamin J. and Cyanne E. Loyle. 2012. "The Economic Benefits of
+#' Justice: Post-conflict Justice and Foreign Direct Investment" 49(5): 685--99.
+#'
+"EBJ"

R/rd-OODTPT.R

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 #' \item{\code{corecov}}{the core non-tariff barrier coverage ratio}
 #' \item{\code{qualcov}}{the quality non-tariff barrier coverate ratio}
 #' \item{\code{polity}}{the familiar [-10,10] Polity measure of democracy}
-#' \item{\code{iec}}{the index of electorcal competitiveness from the World Bank}
+#' \item{\code{iec}}{the index of electoral competitiveness from the World Bank}
 #' \item{\code{lngdppc}}{real GDP per capita in 1995 dollars}
 #' \item{\code{lngdp}}{real GDP in 1995 dollars}
 #' \item{\code{lnexpgdp}}{export dependence (i.e. export/GDP ratio)}