Replicating Sachs and Warner: The 1997 Working Paper

Graham Davis

No 2012-08, Working Papers from Colorado School of Mines, Division of Economics and Business

Abstract: This paper reports on my replication of the 1997 Sachs and Warner resource curse working paper. Exact pure replication is achieved. A test for statistical replication shows that some of the Sachs and Warner results attempting to determine the cause of the resource curse are not robust to the country sample. A test for scientific replication shows that findings of the resource curse are not sensitive to different measures of resource intensiveness, though they are subject to country sample and omitted variable bias. Reporting errors in the published paper show the value of researchers making both their data and code publicly available.

Keywords: Replication; Sachs and Warner; Resource curse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 C80 O13 Q32 Q33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2012-08
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