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- Title
Tradeoffs in Trade Data.
- Authors
Boehmer, Charles R.; Jungblut, Bernadette M. E.; Stoll, Richard J.
- Abstract
Researchers investigating the link between trade and peace often face a severe problem of list-wise deletion from missing trade data. Attempts to mitigate this problem include assuming that most observations are zero or imputing the values of such flows. We compare two frequently used trade data sets (the Gleditsch data set and the Correlates of War Project data set). We classify individual observations as observed, constructed or missing. We demonstrate that state attributes are systematically related to different categories of trade data. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we also find that replacing some missing data with estimated values tends to inflate the effects of trade in conflict models, although the effects differ by data set.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL conflict; INTERNATIONAL trade -- Social aspects; MISSING data (Statistics); MONTE Carlo method; CONFLICT (Psychology) -- Social aspects
- Publication
Conflict Management & Peace Science, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0738-8942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0738894210396630