BetaBetaDataset
This dataset was collected to test whether the effects of water insecurity on the various incidences of political violence are conditional on economic, geographic, and social means of connectivity.
The analysis uses the density of secondary road networks, the geographic distance to the Niger River, and a shared co-ethnicity with one's head-of-state to evaluate the impact of hydrological stress and its subsequent risk for political violence across nine West African countries from 1997 to 2012.
Data entails the road networks, the geographic distance to the Niger River, shared co-ethnicity with one's head-of-state, fording differences and climatology data.
The study used climatological data and an econometric detrending method to measure the separate, substantive impact that individualized changes in precipitation trend and precipitation variability have on the incidence of ACLED's political violence events, conditional on local economic, geographic, and social factors.