Replication data for: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) established that economic institutions today are correlated with expected mortality of European colonialists. David Albouy argues this relationship is not robust. He drops all data from Latin America and much of the data from
Africa, making up almost 60 percent of our sample, despite much information on the mortality of Europeans in those places during the colonial period. He also includes a "campaign" dummy that
is coded inconsistently; even modest corrections undermine his claims. We also show that limiting the effect of outliers strengthens our results, making them robust to even extreme versions of Albouy's critiques. (JEL D02, E23, F54, I12, N40, O43, P14)

阿塞莫格鲁、约翰逊与罗宾逊（2001）证实，当前的经济制度与欧洲殖民时期的预期死亡率存在相关性。大卫·阿尔布伊（David Albouy）认为该关联并不具备稳健性。尽管殖民时期欧洲人在拉美与非洲地区的死亡率已有大量详实记载，但阿尔布伊剔除了全部拉丁美洲数据以及占原样本近60%的多数非洲数据。此外，他所引入的“军事行动”虚拟变量编码存在不一致问题，即便仅对其进行小幅修正，也足以推翻其论证结论。本文还证实，通过限制异常值的影响，可强化原研究结论，使其即便在应对阿尔布伊提出的极端批评时仍保持稳健性。（JEL D02, E23, F54, I12, N40, O43, P14）