Why did the Tariff–Growth Correlation Change after 1950?

By Michael A. Clemens, Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2004

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Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870–1939 (2007, unknown): “They were cleaned recently by Clemens and Williamson (2004b).”
How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Economic Growth? (2004, unknown): “Clemens and Williamson (2004) were the first to include growth of trading partners in a growth regression, using historical data for the period 1869–1999 for 35 countries.”
Do terms-of-trade effects matter for trade agreements? Theory and evidence from WTO Countries* (2013, background): “While our data cover only the 1990s, Clemens and Williamson (2004) present historical data on applied tariffs, measured as tariff revenue divided by dutiable imports, for 35 countries of which 25 overlap with our sample.31 They put the simple average tariff across these 25 countries at 14.1% in…”
Learning the Wealth of Nations (2008, methodology): “We would like to thank Michael Clemens for providing some of the tari¤ data of Clemens and Williamson (2004) and Scott Kastner for sharing the Hiscox and Kastner (2007) openness measure.”
Globalization and Growth in the Low Income African Countries with the Extreme Bounds Analysis (2011, background): “Vamvakidis (2002) and Clemens and Williamson (2004) examined longer-period historical data during 1870–2000 and 1865–1950 respectively.”
Growth and Structural Reforms: A New Assessment (2009, unknown): “The index is based on various sources, including data provided by the IMF, the World Bank, WTO, UN, and the academic literature (particularly Clemens and Williamson, 2004).”
Democracy, Development, and the International System (2011, background): “Data for tariffs before World War Two (available for 35 countries) come from Clemens and Williamson (2004) and Mitchell (1992).”