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Data for Is Africa different? historical conflict and state development Mark Dincecco (21831536) James Fenske (6994715) Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato (24914815) War -- History -- Africa War -- Economic aspects -- Africa State, The -- History -- Africa Military art and science -- Africa Civil war -- Economic aspects -- Africa Migrated from ePrints We show new evidence that the consequences of historical warfare for state development differ for Sub-Saharan Africa. We identify the locations of more than 1,600 conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Europe from 1400 to 1799. We find that historical warfare predicts common-interest states defined by high fiscal capacity and low civil conflict across much of the Old World. For Sub-Saharan Africa, historical warfare predicts special-interest states defined by high fiscal capacity and high civil conflict. Our results offer new evidence about where and when ‘war makes states’.<br><br>Data record consists of 3 tabular data files and one STATA do file. For further details on the dataset please see the related article. 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33803374.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Is_Africa_different_historical_conflict_and_state_development/33803374 CC BY 4.0