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Macro Data
  • Official Business Cycle Dates
    		•  NBER
  • Experimental Coincident, Leading and Recession Indexes
    		•  Stock, Watson
  • Index of African Governance
    		•  Rotberg, Gisselquist
  • Penn-World Tables, Mark 6.1
    		•  Summers, Heston, Aten
  • Barro-Lee
    		•  Barro, Lee
  • Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) data
    		•  Comin, Hobijn
  • 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

    Industry Data
  • 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

    International Trade Data
  • 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

    Individual Data
  • 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

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

    Demographic and Vital Statistics
  • 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

    Patent and Scientific Papers Data
  • U.S. Patents
    		•  Hall, Jaffe, Tratjenberg
  • NBER-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scientific Papers Database
    		•  Adams, Clemmons

    Other Data

  • 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
  • Matched set of Indonesian BPS subdistrict (kecamatan) codes for the period 1976-2002 for use with corresponding BPS data
    		• Olken
  • Resume audit experiment computer program
    		•  Lahey
  • Older data formerly at anonymous FTP
    		•  NBER
  • Links to child health datasets
    		•  Norberg


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