This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Table 1 in James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, Ethnicity,Insurgency, and Civil War, _American Political Science Review_ 97, 1 (February 2003):75-90. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, Additional Tables for Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
Interstate, CIVIL and extrastate wars, by nation year, when multiple wars then only consider largest (by deaths)
dropped Germany (ccode = 255) for lack of data, added missing cases for Czechoslovakia to match to cyear2 data
wbgdp gives federal republic data for Germany. unclear if Czech data refers to Czechoslovakia or only the Czech part.
Exceptions to averaging deaths over conflict years include Rwanda and Nagorno Karabagh.
For c variable, pre-1973 values are set 1973 value if missing
All interaction terms are from centered component variables