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Official Business Cycle Dates |
NBER |
"The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change" Historic Data Tables |
Gordon |
Experimental Coincident, Leading and Recession Indexes |
Stock, Watson |
Index of African Governance |
Rotberg, Gisselquist |
Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database |
Jordà, Schularick, Taylor |
Penn-World Tables |
Feenstra, Inklaar, Timmer |
Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) data |
Comin, Hobijn |
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 |
U.S. Industrial Production Index 1790 - 1915 |
Davis |
Population Birthplace Diversity Indices, 1990-2000, for 190 Countries |
Alesina, Harnoss, Rapoport |
Industry, Productivity, and Digitization Data
Management Practices Data |
Bloom, Van Reenen |
Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database |
Becker, Gray, Marvakov |
Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Data |
Valletta, Freeman |
Form 990 data on tax exempt organizations (Includes EO-BMF and Annual Extracts) |
IRS |
SOI Tax Stats - Individual Income Tax Statistics - ZIP Code Data (SOI) |
IRS |
International Finance and Trade Data
International Finance and Macroeconomics Catalogue of Data Sources |
Klein/Hale |
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. Imports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001 |
Feenstra |
U.S. Imports, 1972-2001 |
Feenstra |
U.S. Exports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001 |
Feenstra |
U.S. Export, 1972-2001 |
Feenstra |
U.S. Antidumping Database and Links |
Blonigen |
Individual Data
Angrist Archive |
Joshua Angrist |
Collaborative Perinatal (CPP) |
NINCDS |
Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts |
Harris, Sabelhaus (CBO) |
Current Population Survey |
BLS |
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) | NHTSA |
GlobSci Project Data |
Scellato, Franzoni, and Stephan |
Gould Sample |
Costa |
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) |
NCHS |
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) |
NCHS |
NHAMCS Data -- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Data |
NCHS |
Reading National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata |
Roth |
Survey of Economic Expectations |
Dominitz, Manski |
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) |
Census |
Survey of Program Dynamics |
Census |
Thorndike-Hagen |
Thorndike, Hagen |
Townsend-Thai Data |
Townsend |
Union Army Data Set |
Fogel |
Worker Representation survey |
Freeman, Rogers |
Healthcare Data -- Hospitals, Providers, Drugs, and Devices
Demographic and Vital Statistics
U.S. Patents |
Hall, Jaffe, Tratjenberg |
NBER-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scientific Papers Database |
Adams, Clemmons |
Nobel Laureate Data |
Jones, Weinberg |
Other Data
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Last update August 16, 2018