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British Economic Imperialism, 1869-1914 (ICPSR 7738)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Great Britain, Europe, Global
Time period: 1869-01-01--1914-01-01
These data are a time series of 46 cases, one for each year from 1869 to 1914, consisting of 134 variables that record information on various aspects of the British economy. Variables include raw values, nine-year moving averages, deviations from the average, and deviations from the linear trend for such quantities as British investment abroad, British gross domestic fixed capital, British exports and imports to the British Empire and to other parts of the world, and the number of British alliances. Data were collected from the most recent available studies in economic history, econometrics, and political science. In every instance, the source considered the most authoritative by the relevant discipline was used to collect the data.
Self-published
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830–1962 (ICPSR 306336)
Released/updated on: 2026-06-01
Geographic coverage: France
Time period: 1833-01-01--1962-01-01
How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers from French taxpayers and private investors, or were they, on the contrary, drained of their capital? This paper uses novel budgetary, private investment, and loan data to compute monetary flows between France and the colonies between 1833 and 1962. Public expenditure spent by France on the empire represented only 1.3 percent of its GDP, of which four-fifths was for the military. Trade balance deficits of French colonies were not counterbalanced by large public or private capital transfers from France to the colonies, but by military expenditure from the metropole. Overall, large sums of money were flowing from the colonies to the metropole, a "drain" representing a couple of percentage points of colonial GDP, making French colonies comparable to British India in the twentieth century.
Self-published
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834-1879 (ICPSR 143581)
Released/updated on: 2021-06-23
Geographic coverage: Indonesia
Time period: 1834-01-01--1879-01-01
We investigate the demographic effects of forced labor under an extractive colonial regime: the Cultivation System in nineteenth-century Java. Our panel analyses show that labor demands are strongly associated with mortality rates, likely resulting from malnourishment and unhygienic conditions on plantations and the spread of infectious disease. An instrumental variable approach, using international market prices for coffee and sugar to predict labor demands, addresses potential endogeneity concerns. Our estimates suggest that without the abolition of the Cultivation System average overall mortality in Java would have been between (roughly) 10 and 30 percent higher by the late 1870s.
Self-published
Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India (ICPSR 198342)
Released/updated on: 2024-02-13
Geographic coverage: India
Time period: 1921-01-01--1957-01-01
This is the replication package for:Cassan, Guilhem, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rinchan Ali Mirza. “Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India.” Journal of Economic History, accepted for publication.Data sources and data construction are described in the section “DATA AND CONSTRUCTION OF KEY VARIABLES,” as well as Online Appendix 3. All key variables have been labeled within each Stata data file.
Self-published
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830-1962 (ICPSR 133361)
Released/updated on: 2021-02-26
Geographic coverage: Benin, Cameroon, Togo, Cambodia, Niger, Guinea, Chad, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Algeria, Central African Republic, Laos, Tunisia, Congo Republic
Time period: 1833-01-01--1969-01-01
What was the capacity of European colonial states? How fiscally extractive were they? What was their capacity to provide public goods and services? And did this change in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism? To answer these questions, we use archival sources to build a new dataset on colonial states of the second French colonial empire (1830- 1962). French colonial states extracted a substantial amount of revenue, but they were underadministered because public expenditure entailed high wage costs. These costs remained a strong constraint in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism, despite a dramatic increase in fiscal capacity and large overseas subsidies.
Self-published
French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon (ICPSR 110542)
Released/updated on: 2019-07-04
Geographic coverage: Cameroon
Time period: 1900-01-01--2005-01-01
This is the replication package for "French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon"
Curated
Internal Colonialism Study: National Integration in the British Isles, 1851-1966 (ICPSR 7533)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Great Britain, Ireland, Wales, England, United Kingdom, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Global
Time period: 1851-01-01--1966-01-01
This dataset contains census, election, and vital statistics data for 118 British and Irish counties for the period 1851 to 1966. The information was collected for use in a study of regional integration and development in Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. Included are population indicators for each of the counties recorded at 11 points in time during the 115-year span (i.e., 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1951, and 1961). Specific information includes indicators of population density and change, ethnic composition, proportion of election votes for Labour, Conservative, Liberal, and various nationalist parties, and proportion of population employed in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, civil service, and (female) domestic work. Other data include number of Celtic speakers, literacy, religiosity, nativity (i.e., English-, Welsh-, Scottish-, Irish-, and French-born), sex ratio (female to male), birth rates, infant mortality rates, marriage rates, per capita income, and proportion of middle class.
Curated
Puerto Rico's Padrones, 1779-1802 (ICPSR 30262)
Released/updated on: 2011-04-07
Geographic coverage: Puerto Rico, Global
Time period: 1779-01-01--1802-01-01
The series consists of 23 annual censuses spanning the years 1779 to 1802, a collection that for its scope and continuity is unique among serial sources of Spanish American colonial history. The padrones were born of a 1776 Royal Order requesting viceroys and executives of Capitanías Generales and Gobernaciones, such as Puerto Rico, to prepare reports on population, broken down by social status, race, and sex. The focus was the civilian population and, therefore, excludes the regular army troops. The series reports the population of Whites, Indians, free Mulattoes, free Blacks, Mulatto slaves and Black slaves for each of 30 partidos in all 23 years (producing a total of 690 observations). Each socio-racial group was subdivided by sex and an ambiguous "age" criterion, which we have interpreted as the difference between dependent (or minor) status and mayoría de edad (adulthood or full age, which in the Spanish American context was 25 years of age). For each group, there are four subdivisions: adult males, adult females, young males, and young females.
Curated
United Nations and Colonialism, 1946-1967 (ICPSR 5513)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1946-01-01--1967-01-01
This study contains data on 1,166 United Nations roll call votes on the issue of colonialism by 124 member nations in the period 1946-1967. Information is provided for the name of the session of the United Nations in which the vote occurred (e.g., the United Nations General Assembly Plenary session, joint committee session, political committee session, committee on granting independence to colonial countries, the Security Council, Trusteeship Council, the ad hoc committee on the Palestinian Question), session number, nature of the vote (e.g., procedural or substantive), object of the vote, constitutional and structural implications of the issue, category of the issue, and records of particular countries' votes. The roll call vote is the case, and the vote of each member and other descriptive information are the variables.