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Cross-Country Datasets (in
Stata Format)
Please Note: The following datasets are
from data publicly available on the web, and links
to the original papers and data sets are provided where available. It is the
user's responsibility to ensure they understand the data, that the data
is correct and that the original
sources/authors are properly cited. The data are made available
here in StataTM format along with a consistent coding system
employed across all datasets for the sole purpose of facilitating their
use in cross-country empirical work by making it easier to merge and
manipulate the data.
The coding system used in the datasets below is:
isocode
(3-letter ISO code) as a country identifier, year and pcode
(code for 5-year period) as a time identifier in panel datasets.
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Useful Data Compilations (always a
good starting point!)
| 1. Easterly-Yu Panel, annual data (1960-1999)
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Stata |
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2. IMF Panel, 5 year period stocks and averaged flows
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Stata |
| 3. Fixed Country Characteristics |
Stata |
| 4. Country Code Concordance (my ISO to World Bank, PWT, & Polity
IV coding) |
Stata |
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Inequality Data
(see also my data page)
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1.
Deininger-Squire (1996)
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Stata |
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2.
WIID
(2006) (includes DS as a proper subset) |
Stata |
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3.
Forbes
(2000) - choices for a 5 year panel from DS data |
Stata
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4.
Milanovic's annual
choices from DS & WIID data |
Stata |
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5.
UTIP
Theil Coefficients (Based on average pay differentials
between industries. Best
for studying time-series variation in inequality at annual
frequencies) |
Excel |
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6. Land
Ginis (Constructed from Frequency Distribution of Farm Sizes, FAO)
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Stata
Stata
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Outputs,
Inputs and Productivity
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1.
Penn World Tables (NIPA Data, PPP)
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Stata (version 6.1)
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2.
Capital Stock data (from PWT 5.6) |
Excel (from
Easterly-Yu) |
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3. OECD data ( higher quality but limited to OECD
sample) |
Stata |
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4.
Employment / Unemployment data (ILO) |
Stata |
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Finance
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1.
Money, Credit and Banking Data from {Levine etc.,}
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Stata
Stata |
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2.
Interest Rates from World Bank’s WD |
Stata |
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3. Easterly-Yu Public Finance Data
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Excel |
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Innovation & Patenting Data
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1.
Money, Credit and Banking Data from {Levine etc.,}
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Stata
Stata |
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2.
Interest Rates from World Bank’s WD |
Stata |
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3. Easterly-Yu Public Finance Data
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Excel |
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Education
1. Barro Lee (2000 update)
- Distributional data
- Quality / outcomes data
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Stata
Stata
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| 2. Enrollment and Spending Data (from WDI) |
Stata |
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3. UNESCO
- Years of schooling, by level
- Quality measures
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Stata
Stata
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| 4.
Cohen – Soto |
Stata |
| 5. Fuente – Domenech |
Stata |
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Institutions and Governance
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1.
Freedom House (political and civil rights indices)
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Stata |
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2. Polity IV Database (democracy & autocracy) |
Stata (5 year
panel) |
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3.
ICRG (quality of governance) - corruption measures |
Stata |
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4.
Institutional Instruments
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settler
mortality, population density in 1500s (AJR, 2001 & 2002)
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crop
data from Easterly & Levine ( )
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legal
origins from Djankov, LaPorta ()
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latitude
& languages from Hall & Jones ( )
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Barriers
to Entry and Formality (from LaPorta)
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Stata (AJR / crops)
Stata (from LaPorta)
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5.
Sachs and Warner Openness (1950-1992) |
Stata |
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6. World Bank Governance Index |
Stata |
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Other
Useful Data
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1.
Ethnic Fractionalization (Easterly and Levine)
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Stata
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2. Religious Composition in 1980 (World Christian Encyclopedia) |
Stata |
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3. Resources (Sachs & Warner) |
Stata |
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4. World Trade Database |
Stata |
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Quick Links to Other Great Data Resources
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Last Updated October 5, 2006
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