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* Blanco & Ruiz AER P&P Supplementary Material *
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by

Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University
ISabel Ruiz, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University.


This readme file describes the supplementary material that accompanies the article "The Impact of Crime and Insecurity on Trust in Democracy and Institutions", AER Papers and Proceedings (2013). 

The data used in this paper comes from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University, which takes no responsibility for any interpretation of the data. 
The data was obtained from the University of Oxford library system and can be obtained at a cost from http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/

We used the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 surveys for Colombia. These 6 surveys were merged and only the variables of interest were kept (as described in the paper and in the Appendix, see below). 


Description of the files:

1. Appendix1.pdf - This table includes a description of each of the variables included in the paper and for replication purposes it also includes the original code from the LAPOP data set and the re-coding by the authors used in the estimations.

2. Appendix2.pdf - This file contains a table with the summary statistics of all the variables included in the paper.

3. The Stata do file dofile_estimations_BR.do to refer to the estimations for the results in the paper.


For any questions contact:
- Luisa Blanco, lblanco@pepperdine.edu or 
- Isabel Ruiz, isabel.ruiz@economics.ox.ac.uk