The rise and fall of Argentina

Latin American Economic Review

Table 2 Descriptive statistics

	Number of observations	Mean	Standard deviation			Minimum	Maximum
	Number of observations	Mean	Overall	Between	Within	Minimum	Maximum
Outcomes
Real GDP per capita ($)	4564	5234	5889	2756	5230	397	31,711
Latent indices of political institutions
De jure	4564	10.22	10.58	8.63	6.32	0	93.23
De facto	4564	45.51	37.34	24.38	28.65	− 2.39	119.13
Geography covariates
Latitude	4564	30.63	26.79	27.27	–	− 36.3	59.55
Longitude	4564	3.08	58.36	59.42	–	− 99.10	139.83
Terrain ruggedness	4564	1.65	1.29	1.31	–	0.037	5.043
Soil quality	4564	39.66	17.20	17.52	–	0.073	69.97
Desert (%)	4564	0.84	3.02	3.08	–	0	15.48
Tropical (%)	4564	14.40	32.81	33.41	–	0	99.54
Distance to coast	4564	42.39	33.50	34.11	–	0	100
Landlocked	4564	0.10	0.309	0.314	–	0	1
Log precipitation	4564	6.87	0.52	0.53	–	5.42	8.08
Legal history covariates
Common law	4564	0.14	0.34	0.35	–	0	1
French civil law	4564	0.57	0.49	0.50	–	0	1
German civil law	4564	0.17	0.38	0.39	–	0	1
Scandinavian civil law	4564	0.10	0.30	0.31	–	0	1
Culture covariates
Ethnic fractionalization	4564	0.30	0.22	0.22	–	0.01	0.67
Linguistic fractionalization	4564	0.22	0.22	0.22	–	0.02	0.75
Religious fractionalization	4564	0.35	0.22	0.22	–	0	0.82