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Table 2

Variable definition and data sources

Variable	Definition	Source
GROWTH_it	per capita GDP growth rate (%) = $\ln (\frac{{rgdpch}_{t}}{{rgdpch}_{t - 1}}) \times 100$	PWT (rgdpch: PPP Converted GDP Per Capita, Chain Series, at 2005 constant prices)
POLITY_it	Polity2 scores	Marshall et al. (2011)
PSTOCK_it	democracy stock = $\sum_{s = 1900}^{t} {0.98}^{t - s} {POLITY}_{i, s}$	Polity IV project: dataset
Y_i0	initial per capita income	PWT (rgdpch in 1960)
I_it	real physical capital rate	PWT (ki, investment share of PPP converted GDP per capita at 2005 constant prices, %)
L_it	$\ln (\frac{{pop}_{t}}{{pop}_{t - 1}}) + 0.05$	PWT (POP: population, in thousands)
ED_it	percentage of the population aged 25 and over with secondary	Barro and Lee (2013) http://www.barrolee.com
ETHNOLIG_i	ethnolinguistic fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
ENGLISH_i	dummy, = 1 if English or French is official language	La Porta et al. (1999)
PROTESTANT_i	Protestant fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
CATHOLIC_i	Catholic fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
MUSLIM_i	Muslim fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
OTHER_i	other religious fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
LATITUDE_i	generalized geographical proxy for climate	La Porta et al. (1999)
TRADE_i	proxy for geographical isolation	Frankel and Romer (1999)
YR_t	year
AGYEAR_it	the years (in hundreds) passed since a country transitioned from hunting and gathering to agriculture	Putterman and Weil (2010) http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Louis_Putterman/
WCF_i	the percent of people today who are descended from the six countries strongly influenced by Confucianism, that is, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore	Constructed based on Putterman and Weil's (2010) migration matrix
WCFCN_i	the percent of people today who are descended from China	Constructed based on Putterman and Weil's (2010) migration matrix

Variable	Definition	Source
GROWTH_it	per capita GDP growth rate (%) = $\ln (\frac{{rgdpch}_{t}}{{rgdpch}_{t - 1}}) \times 100$	PWT (rgdpch: PPP Converted GDP Per Capita, Chain Series, at 2005 constant prices)
POLITY_it	Polity2 scores	Marshall et al. (2011)
PSTOCK_it	democracy stock = $\sum_{s = 1900}^{t} {0.98}^{t - s} {POLITY}_{i, s}$	Polity IV project: dataset
Y_i0	initial per capita income	PWT (rgdpch in 1960)
I_it	real physical capital rate	PWT (ki, investment share of PPP converted GDP per capita at 2005 constant prices, %)
L_it	$\ln (\frac{{pop}_{t}}{{pop}_{t - 1}}) + 0.05$	PWT (POP: population, in thousands)
ED_it	percentage of the population aged 25 and over with secondary	Barro and Lee (2013) http://www.barrolee.com
ETHNOLIG_i	ethnolinguistic fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
ENGLISH_i	dummy, = 1 if English or French is official language	La Porta et al. (1999)
PROTESTANT_i	Protestant fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
CATHOLIC_i	Catholic fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
MUSLIM_i	Muslim fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
OTHER_i	other religious fractionalization	La Porta et al. (1999)
LATITUDE_i	generalized geographical proxy for climate	La Porta et al. (1999)
TRADE_i	proxy for geographical isolation	Frankel and Romer (1999)
YR_t	year
AGYEAR_it	the years (in hundreds) passed since a country transitioned from hunting and gathering to agriculture	Putterman and Weil (2010)http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Louis_Putterman/
WCF_i	the percent of people today who are descended from the six countries strongly influenced by Confucianism, that is, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore	Constructed based on Putterman and Weil's (2010) migration matrix
WCFCN_i	the percent of people today who are descended from China	Constructed based on Putterman and Weil's (2010) migration matrix