yearly observations of 89 villages from 1974 to 2003
number of observations : 2670
number of time-series : 30
country : India
JEL codes: D72, O13, O17, Q15
Chapter : 08
data(LandReform)A dataframe containing:
village id number
Year
District
ratio of patta land registered to operational land
ratio of pattadar households to total households (hh)
ratio of barga land registered to operational land
ratio of bargadar registered hh to total hh
election year dummy
preelection year dummy
to complete
interpolated landless hh, gi
interpolated mg hh, gi
interpolated sm hh, gi
interpolated md hh, gi
ratio of land below 5 acres cultivable NOT extrapolated
ratio of land above 12.5 acres cultivable
interpolated ratio of illiterate non big hh
interpolated ratio of low caste hh
Left Front share in GP, == 0 for 1974
Assembly average vote difference LF-INC, district
Inflation in last 5 years in CPI for Agricultural Labourers
Year variation in Employment in Small Scale Industrial Units registered with Dir
INC seats / Total seats in Lok Sabha
Ratio of LF seats in parliament
Interaction between Inflation and ratleft lagged
Interaction between INC seats and ratleft lagged
Interaction between LF seats and ratleft lagged
Left Front share in GP, ==share of assembly seats for 1974
to complete
to complete
to complete
Gran Panchayat
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee (2010) “Determinants of Redistributive Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Land Reform in West Bengal, India”, American Economic Review, 100(4), 1572--1600, 10.1257/aer.100.4.1572 .