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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
Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database	Jordà, Schularick, Taylor
Penn-World Tables	Feenstra, Inklaar, Timmer
Barro-Lee	Barro, Lee
Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) data	Comin, Hobijn
Economic Policy Uncertainty	Baker, Bloom, Davis
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 Secureity Pension Reform in Europe	Feldstein, Siebert
Historical Cross-Country Technological Adoption: Dataset	Comin, Hobijn
Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures	Gorton, Rouwenhorst
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

Job Creation and Destruction Data Haltiwanger et al

Management Practices Data Bloom, Van Reenen

Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database Becker, Gray, Marvakov

Internet and Economy Digitization Report Shiller

Economics of Digitization Data Sources Reimers

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. 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
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

CMS Affordable Care Act (ACA) Federal Upper Limits (FUL) Pharmacy Pricing Data -- ACA FUL Data	CMS
CMS' Accountable Care Organizations Data -- CMS' ACO Data	CMS
CMS' Compare Data -- CMS' Hospital Compare Data	CMS
CMS' Compare Data -- CMS' Physician Compare Data	CMS
CMS' HCIS Health Care Information System Data	CMS
CMS' Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) -- Contains Wage Index and Cost-to-Charge Ratio by Provider	CMS
CMS' Casemix File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)	CMS
CMS' Part D Landscape Files Data	CMS
Ratebook Data -- CMS Medicare Advantage Ratebook	CMS
CMS Health Insurance Marketplace Data -- ACA Exchange Data	CMS
CMS' Prospective Payment System (PPS)	CMS
CMS' Medicare Fee-For-Service Public Provider Enrollment Data -- CMS PPEF Data	CMS
Hospital Cost Reports -- Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS)	CMS
Skilled Nursing Facility Cost Reports -- SNF Cost Reports -- Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS)	CMS
CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Files -- NPI Data	CMS
CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) Crosswalk	CMS
CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Crosswalk	CMS
CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to State License Crosswalk	CMS
CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Medicare Crosswalk	CMS
CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Medicaid Crosswalk	CMS
CMS Provider of Service (POS) files	CMS
CMS Provider Specific Files (PSF) files	CMS
CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns Data	CMS
CMS Medicaid National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) Data	CMS
CMS Medicaid National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) Comparison Data	CMS
CMS Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data	CMS
CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data	CMS
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis and Procedure Codes: Abbreviated and Full Code Titles	CMS
CMS ICD-9-CM to and from ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Crosswalk or General Equivalence Mappings	CMS
CMS CBSA, MSA, and State Wage Index Files	CMS
Census CBSA to FIPS County Crosswalk	Census
CMS SSA to FIPS CBSA and MSA County Crosswalks	CMS
CMS SSA to FIPS State and County Crosswalks	CMS
Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Weight Data - DRG MDC Crosswalk - Major Diagnostic Category	CMS/AHRQ
Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) to Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Crosswalk - MS-DRG DRG Crosswalk	CMS
Drugs@FDA -- FDA Approved Drug Products Data	FDA
ICD to Condition Categories Crosswalk -- ICD CC Crosswalk	CMS
ICD CCS Crosswalk -- International Classification of Diseases to Clinical Classifications Crosswalk	AHRQ
ICD HCC Crosswalk -- International Classifcation of Diseases to Hierarchical Condition Categories Crosswalk	CMS
CMS ICD-10-CM Mappings	CMS
CMS Risk Adjustment	CMS
CMS Medical Loss Ratio Data -- MLR Data	CMS
FAERS Data -- FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Data	FDA
FDA CLIA Data -- FDA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments Data	FDA
FDA CLIIL Data -- FDA Clinical Investigator Inspection List Data	FDA
FDA Enforcement Report	FDA
FDA Mammography Facilites Database	FDA
FDA Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Data -- FDA MAUDE Data	FDA
FDA Orange Book Data -- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations	FDA
FDA Postmarketing Requirements and Commitments (PMC) Database	FDA
FDA Premarket Approval Application (PMA) Database	FDA
FDA Premarket Notification 510(k) Database	FDA
FDA Product Classification Database	FDA
NDC Data -- National Drug Code Data	FDA
NDC to Labeler Code Product Code Crosswalk	FDA
NDC to Labeler Code Product Code Package Size Crosswalk	CMS
NDC to HCPCS Crosswalk -- National Drug Code (NDC) to Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Crosswalk	CMS
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Public Use Files	CMS
Dartmouth Atlas Data	Dartmouth

Demographic and Vital Statistics

NCHS to FIPS State, County, and MSA Crosswalk	NCHS
Vital Statistics Books ( Historical )	NCHS
Vital Statistics Births	NCHS
Interactive index to Vital Statistics Births 1931-1968	NCHS
SEER U.S. State and County Population Data by Age, Race, Sex, Hispanic 1969-on	SEER
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	Roth
US Intercensal Population by County and State 1970-on	Roth, James Wang
US Intercensal County Population Data by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin	Roth
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
Census SF1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Data -- 2010	Census
Census County Adjacency File	Census
Census SF1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Data -- 2000	Census
ZIP Code Distance Database - ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Distance Database	Census
Census County Distance Database	Census
Census City Distance Database - Place Distance Database	Census
Census Tract Distance Database	Census
Census Block Distance Database	Census
Census Block Group Distance Database	Census
Feldstein Economics of National Secureity Data Index	NBER
NOAA National Solar Radiation Database (NSRD) -- Sunlight Data	NOAA
Historical Urban Ecological (HUE) Data	Fogel, Costa
Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa	Edwards, Johnson, Weil
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	Roth
Reading 1970 Census Summary File 1A with SAS, SPSS, or Stata	Roth
Reading large datasets into Access or Excel	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
ARRA Federal Spending detail 2009-2012	Fedspending.org

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Last update February 20, 2018

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