Inflation Legacies: How Early-Life Crises Shape Preferences and Money Growth in Africa

The dataset merges macroeconomic indicators with biographical data on African central bank governors from 1990 to 2023. It includes variables such as money growth, inflation, trade openness, fiscal regimes, and central bank independence. A key innovation of the dataset is the inclusion of each governor’s year of birth and country-level inflation crisis records, allowing the construction of indicators that capture early-life exposure to inflation crises. These were compiled using World Bank WDI data, Romelli’s (2022) central bank independence dataset, and hand-collected biographical details from official central bank publications and verified historical sources.

本数据集整合了1990年至2023年间非洲各国中央银行行长的传记数据与宏观经济指标。数据集涵盖货币增速、通货膨胀、贸易开放度、财政制度以及中央银行独立性（central bank independence）等变量。本数据集的一项核心创新在于纳入了每位行长的出生年份与国家层面的通货膨胀危机记录，借此可构建用于捕捉行长早年通胀危机暴露经历的相关指标。该数据集依托世界银行世界发展指标（World Development Indicators, WDI）数据库、Romelli（2022）的中央银行独立性数据集，以及从官方中央银行出版物与经核验的历史史料中手工收集的传记细节整理而成。