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Macro Data

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

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, 1972-2005; NAICS 1989-2005; HS 1989-2008
Concordance between HS and SIC/NAICS; Concordance of HS codes over time		 Schott
Pierce and 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/Provider Data

Prospective Payment System (PPS)		 CMS

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

Provider of Service (POS) files		 CMS

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 Births 1940-1968 		Finkelstein, Heidi Williams

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

Work-Family Policies and Other Data		 Waldfogel, Han, Ruhm

Patent and Scientific Papers Data

U.S. Patents		 Hall, Jaffe, Tratjenberg

NBER-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scientific Papers Database		 Adams, Clemmons

Nobel Laureate Data		 Jones, Weinberg

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

Business Travel Index 		Borenstein

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


Send questions to Jean Roth at jroth@nber.org


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