Replication Data and Code for: A comment on Dincecco et al. (2022): Pre-colonial warfare and long-run development in India

Please see the ReadMe file for additional details. We test the reproducibility and replicability of Dincecco et al. (2022), which reports a positive relationship between pre-colonial interstate warfare and long-run development patterns across India.

Overall, we confirm that all of the study’s estimates are computationally reproducible using the provided replication package in Stata, but note that the ease of replication could be improved by the provision of code and intermediate datasets for the conflict exposure measure. We test for and find no evidence of data manipulation in the final datasets. Concerning direct replicability, we consider different ways of measuring distance to conflicts and also alternative proxies for both the dependent variable and variables which capture channels by which the main effects operate.