12.11 Homework

  1. For Table 1 we only replicated Column 1. Try to replicate Column 2-6.

  2. For Table 2 we only replicated Column 1 and Column 2. Also replicate Column 3-5.

  3. For the instrumental variable regression in Table 5 we only replicated column 1 and 2. Please also replicate the other Columns (3-5).

  4. Scan through pages 3241-3244. What falsifications tests do Nunn and Wantchekon (2011a) discuss to test some of the assumptions underlying IV?

References

Nunn, Nathan, and Leonard Wantchekon. 2011a. “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa.” Am. Econ. Rev. 101 (7): 3221–52.