Country Name
Dummy for former Belgian Colonies
Dummy for former British Colonies
Dummy for former German Colonies
Dummy for former Italian Colonies
Dummy for former Portuguese Colonies
Dummy for former French Colonies
Log of Average Rainfall
Log of Average Temperature
ELF as calculated by Fearon (2003)
ELF as calculated by Alesina et al. (2003)
Dummy for Coastal Countries
Log of Kilometers Squared
Log of Average Latitude
Log of Average Elevation
Log of Distance to Coast or Sea-Navigable River
Dummy for Muslim Majority
Dummy if any of the borders are at least partly straight
Percentage of the number of borders which are at least partially straight
Log of Population Density in 1850
Percentage of Citizens who lived in pre-colonial centralized ethnic groups
Log of measure of one/two dimensional border
Country Code
Coastline