Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870–1939

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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? (2011, background): “1870-1939 indeed suggests that volatility harms growth for the commodity-dependent ‘periphery’ nations rather than for Europe or the US (Blattman et al., 2007).”
Globalization and the Great Divergence: terms of trade booms, volatility and the poor periphery, 1782–1913 (2008, methodology): “In every case but Argentina and Mexico, these new series are taken up to 1913 and replace the 1865–1939 series used previously in my work with Chris Blattman and Jason Hwang (hereafter BHW; Blattman et al. 2007).”
Public capital in resource rich economies: is there a curse? (2014, background): “Such a counterfactual is, of course, highly stylized, but for illustrative purposes we hold constant at the mean for our sample of resource rich countries all observed characteristics other than the resource rents themselves and our measures of public capital (See Appendix 2 for details of these var”
Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth (2012, neutral): “Blattman et al. (2007) investigate the impact of terms of trade volatility, arising from excessive commodity price fluctuations, on growth performance of a panel of 35 commodity dependent countries between 1870 and 1939.”