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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 27.
Published in final edited form as: Q J Econ. 2010;125(4):1627–1682. doi: 10.1162/qjec.2010.125.4.1627

Table III.

Robustness to Alternative Measures of Migration, Descent, and Language

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

Dependent Var. ln(GDP per capita 2000)
Ancestry
 adjusted
Statehist
2.76***
(.46)
2.09***
(.38)
1.48***
(.32)
2.11***
(.38)
Ancestry
 adjusted
Agyears
.400***
(.050)
.270***
(.041)
.152***
(.035)
.256***
(.043)
“neo Europes”
 adjusted
Statehist
1.27***
(.32)
−.741**
(.355)
“neo Europes”
 adjusted
Agyears
.173***
(.034)
−.133***
(.040)
Native −.867***
(.265)
−.744***
(.270)
Retained −.800**
(.361)
−.583
(.358)
Fraction
 European
 Descent
1.82***
(.16)
1.63***
(.16)
1.58***
(.17)
Fraction
 European
 Languages
1.31***
(.21)
1.04***
(.18)
1.06***
(.19)
Constant 8.02***
(.14)
7.55***
(.17)
7.66***
(.19)
7.00***
(.22)
8.87***
(.44)
8.07***
(.43)
7.83***
(.10)
7.27***
(.13)
7.11***
(.19)
8.10***
(.14)
7.26***
(.17)
6.86***
(.23)

No. obs. 136 136 147 147 129 139 138 138 138 113 113 113
R-squared .122 .230 .127 .259 .286 .281 .458 .572 .526 .195 .418 .393

Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses.

***

p<.01,

**

p<.05,

*

p<.1