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UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST, TOURISM, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ■ 201<br />

TABLE 7.4 continued<br />

Database Units Descriptor Code<br />

Barro and Lee (2000) Logarithim of fraction of population<br />

in 1980<br />

Initial primary school attainment Education<br />

Dollar & Kraay (2003) Latitude of capital city Distance to the equator Distance<br />

Heston (2006) Ratio of price indices Price of capital goods relative to<br />

consumption goods<br />

Kprice<br />

World Bank (2008) Nominal imports plus exports Real openness, as described by Trade<br />

divided by GDP in PPP constant Alcala & Ciccone (2004)<br />

international U.S. dollars<br />

ICRG (2009)<br />

Instruments<br />

Index value Average annual law and<br />

order index<br />

UNESCO (2009) &<br />

World Bank (2008)<br />

Number of sites per<br />

100,000 inhabitants c<br />

Dollar & Kraay (2003) Logarithm of predicted trade<br />

share of GDP<br />

UNESCO World Heritage<br />

Sites<br />

Predicted trade, based on a<br />

gravity model using population<br />

and geography, as described by<br />

Frankel & Romer (1999)<br />

Institution<br />

Unesco<br />

lnfrinstex<br />

Dollar & Kraay (2003) Fraction of total population Fraction of a country’s<br />

population speaking a European<br />

language as a mother tongue, as<br />

described by Hall & Jones (1999)<br />

eurfrac<br />

Dollar & Kraay (2003) Fraction of total population Fraction of a country’s population engfrac<br />

speaking a English as a mother<br />

tongue, as described by Hall &<br />

Jones (1999)<br />

Dollar & Kraay (2003) Logarithm of mortality rate Colonial settler mortality, as<br />

described by Acemoglu, Johnson,<br />

& Robinson (2001)<br />

lnsetmort<br />

CIA (2009) Kilometers Coastline coastal<br />

a. For robustness, also calculated using Heston (2006).<br />

b. Provides longest consistent time series for tourism.<br />

c. For robustness, also calculated per surface area.<br />

Source: Authors.<br />

TABLE 7.5<br />

Countries Included in the Sample<br />

Africa Asia & Pacifi c<br />

Europe & North<br />

America<br />

Latin America<br />

& Caribbean Middle East<br />

Benin Australia Albania Antigua and Barbuda Algeria<br />

Botswana Bangladesh Austria Argentina Bahrain<br />

Burkina Faso Bhutan Belgium Belize Egypt, Arab. Rep.<br />

Burundi China Bulgaria Bolivia Jordan<br />

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