Data

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Official Business Cycle Dates	NBER
Experimental Coincident, Leading and Recession Indexes	Stock, Watson
Penn-World Tables, Mark 6.1	Summers, Heston, Aten
Barro-Lee	Barro, Lee
A History of U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Interventions	Bordo, Humpage, Schwartz
Occupational Wages around the World	Freeman, Oostendorp
Macro History Database	NBER
Savings, Investment, and Gold in 13 countries (1850-1945)	Jones, Obstfeld
"Social Security Pension Reform in Europe"	Feldstein, Siebert
"Historical Cross-Country Technological Adoption: Dataset"	Comin, Hobijn
"Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures"	Gorton, Rouwenhorst
"US Industrial Production Index 1790 - 1915 "	Davis

Job Creation and Destruction Data	Haltiwanger et al
Management Practices Data	Bloom, Van Reenen
Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database	Bartelsman, Becker, Gray
Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Data	Valletta, Freeman
Form 990 data on tax exempt organizations	IRS

Price Quantity Indexes and Values for U.S. Exports and Imports, 1879-1923	Lipsey
SITC Rev 2 and NAICS (1997)	Feenstra,Lipsey
U.S. Trade by 1972-SIC category, 1958-1994	Feenstra
U.S. Trade by 1987-SIC category, 1989-2001	Schott
U.S. Imports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001	Feenstra
U.S. Imports by SAS and Stata, 1972-2001	Feenstra
U.S. Exports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001	Feenstra
U.S. Exports by SAS and Stata, 1972-2001	Feenstra
U.S. Tariffs, 1989-2001	Romalis
U.S. Antidumping Database and Links	Blonigen
World Trade Data ( choose World Import and Export Data )	Feenstra, Lipsey

Angrist Archive	Joshua Angrist
Boston Youth Labor (Market) Survey, 1980, 1989	Freeman, Katz
Collaborative Perinatal (CPP)	NINCDS
Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts	Harris, Sabelhaus (CBO)
Current Population Survey	BLS
Gould Sample	Costa
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)	NCHS
Reading National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata	Jean Roth
Survey of Economic Expectations	Dominitz, Manski
Survey of Income and Program Participation	Census
Survey of Program Dynamics	Census
Thorndike-Hagen	Thorndike, Hagen
Union Army Data Set	Fogel
Worker Representation survey	Freeman, Rogers

Prospective Payment System (PPS)	CMS
Reading CMS' Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) datasets using SAS	Jean Roth

Vital Statistics Books ( Historical )	NCHS
Vital Statistics Births	NCHS
Interactive index to Vital Statistics Births 1931-1968	NCHS
Reading SEER U.S. County Population Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata 1969-on	Jean Roth
Vital Statistics Births and Infant Mortality 1920-1945	Cutler, Norberg, Norton
Vital Statistics Mortality Data	NCHS
Vital Statistics Deaths - Historical 1900 - 1936	Grant Miller
Vital Statistics Marriage and Divorce	NCHS
US Decennial Population by County and State 1900-1990	Jean Roth
US Intercensal Population by County and State 1970-2006	James Wang
US Intercensal Population by State, Age and Sex 1970-1999	Census

Hall, Jaffe, Tratjenberg

Data Appendixes from NBER Working Papers and Books	NBER
School District Databook (SDDB)	NCES
Tax Model File Documentation	Feenberg
Segregation Data	Cutler, Glaeser, Vigdor
State Constitutions Project	Wallis
NIH CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)	Lichtenberg
Reading PUMS Data (Public Use Microdata Sample) for 1990 and 2000 with SAS, SPSS, or Stata	Jean Roth
Reading 1970 Census Summary File 1A with SAS, SPSS, or Stata	Jean Roth
Reading large datasets into Access or Excel	Jean Roth
Resume audit experiment computer program	Lahey
Older data formerly at anonymous FTP	NBER
Links to child health datasets	Norberg

Send questions to Jean Roth at jroth@nber.org

Last update March 20, 2008.