Country-level data: World Economics and Politics Dataverse

[briatte]

https://ncgg.princeton.edu/wep/dataverse.html
https://ncgg.princeton.edu/wep/download.html
https://ncgg.princeton.edu/wep/IPE_Codebook.pdf (outdated)

• Make the data cross-sectional 2017 ±3 years, à la QOG
  • Email the original authors for feedback
  • Call it wep2020? ipe2020?
• Code an example merge between WEP and QOG — see 34
  • e.g. with the RCS variables, which are more recent than the lp_ ones in QOG (1980s)

[briatte]

Pinging @jacobtuc (couldn't find Benjamin Graham).

Dear Jacob, I emailed you and Benjamin about the data. I'm working on a cross-sectional version of your dataset, for inclusion in the course documented in this repo.