This paper proposes a new instrument for institutional qualitythe salary of colonial governorsto investigate whether variations in the quality of British colonial rule continue to have an impact on the economic performance of former colonies. Governors’ salaries provide a good source of...

We introduce and describe the Patent Similarity Data set, comprising vector space model-based similarity scores for United States utility patents. The data set provides approximately 640 million pre-calculated similarity scores, as well as the code and computed vectors required to calculate...