research

Recent work, i.e. since 2010.

For older stuff:

working papers

Simulating the Effects of Selection Bias in the Minorities at Risk Project
April 2008.
[ pdf | replication ]

Cultural Differences and Violent Conflict between Ethnic Groups
April 2008.
[ pdf ]

Constitutional Design in Multiethnic Democracies.
December 2006.
[ pdf | replication ]

conference presentations

Beger, Andreas. 2008. "Cultural Differences and Violent Conflict between Ethnic Groups." Paper presented at the 66th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 3-6 April 2008.
[ pdf | slides ]

Beger, Andreas. 2006. "The Strength of Ethnic Group Identities and Civil War." Paper presented at 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association - South, Birmingham, AL, 20-21 October 2006.
[ pdf | replication ]

Data and files

1991 municipal boundaries for Bosnia and Herzegovina (zip folder)
At the beginning of the Yugoslav civil wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) consisted of 109 municipalities. Finding free geographic layers with those municipal boundaries was difficult so I recreated them from National Geophysical Data Center Coastline Extractor, using World Data Bank II. Municipality names and demographic information come from the 1991 Yugoslav census courtesy wikipedia...I hence can make no guarantees of accuracy. The zipped folder contains both the ArcMap shapefiles as well as a copy of the working paper that describes in further detail how the boundary shapefiles were created, data sources, etc. Please cite this working paper along with the original data sources cited in the working paper.

Cross-section country names to COW ccode (do file)
Do-file that creates COW country codes for a dataset that only has country names in it. The file does not take the current year of an observation into account, and does not adjust for state membership (e.g. there was no unified Germany between 1946 and 1989). It should work fine for any cross-section between 1946 and 2004, or for cross-section time-series datasets if you are not concerned about adjusting for state membership.

Cross-section ISO country codes to COW ccode (do file)
Do-file that creates COW country codes for a dataset that only has ISO country codes in it. The file does not take the current year of an observation into account, and does not adjust for state membership (e.g. there was no unified Germany between 1946 and 1989). It should work fine for any cross-section between 1946 and 2004, or for cross-section time-series datasets if you are not concerned about adjusting for state membership.

Time-series ISO country codes to COW ccode (do file)
Do-file that creates COW country codes fora dataset that only has ISO country codes in it. The file accurately assigns country codes for the time period 1946 to 2004 according to the COW state membership list, but does not drop any country-years that do not conform to COW. If you want a dataset that conforms to COW, this will allow you to merge your dataset to a blank COW state membership list.