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My article uses GDP per capita from the World Bank as a control variable when assessing the impact of gender equality on nonviolent campaigns and armed conflict. Unfortunately, I made a mistake when joining the data sets leading to the inclusion of GDP rather than GDP per capita. I apologize for this mistake.
To assess the implications of this error, I retrieved the correct measure from the World Bank and subsequently re-ran the analyses (see Table 1-2, Figure 1-2 below). As in the article, increases in gender equality are, on average, associated with an increased likelihood of nonviolent conflict onset. The main results are, in other words, robust, and the main hypotheses in the article remain supported.
The article has several by-findings. Relevant for this correction is that it asserts: 'An additional observation is that the models (…) replicate earlier findings on the relationship between armed conflict and no conflict onset (…).
RESULTS also indicate that GDP per capita is not significantly related to armed conflict onset (…)' (Schaftenaar, 2017: 770). In contrast to these statements, the relationship between female-to-male primary school ratio and armed conflict onset is not significant when including the corrected ln GDP per capita (Table 1, model 2 and Figure 2).
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