2024/07/02 by Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck · 1 voice · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Historical Economic and Social Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/01615440.2024.2400188
openalex publication_date 2024/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for an entire population in the Caribbean over a long time span: the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.4 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines throughout the entire period. This richness is all the more valuable in light of the limited source availability characteristics of the area and is hoped to lead to a renewed debate on our understanding of former slave societies, while fostering collaborations with scholars who rely on similar datasets for other areas of the world.