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TopicSourceLinkVariables of InterestPotential Issues
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Data by TopicNational Bureau of Economic Researchhttp://www.nber.org/data_index.html/
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American Economic Associationhttps://www.aeaweb.org/resources/data
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Common Statistics (U.S.)American Community Surveyhttp://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/american-factfinder/
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Survey of Income Program Participationhttp://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/data.html
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Census Bureauwww.census.gov
General and population statistics; foreign trade on goods and service imported/exported
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Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)www.bea.doc.govMajor U.S. macroeconomic indicators; private and public capital stocks (fixed assets), GDP by industry, U.S. balance of payments; U.S. international investment position; regional and state data.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics www.bls.govEmployment issues, productivity, prices (CPI, PPI, etc.)
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FREDhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/
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Inter-university consortium for Political and Social Researchwww.icpsr.umich.edu
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Minnesota Population Center’s Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)https://www.ipums.org/Micro-level economic and social variables
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Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)http://simba.isr.umich.edu/data/data.aspxFamily-level economic and social variables
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reservehttps://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H15
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Consumer Expenditure Surveyhttps://www.bls.gov/cex/pumd.htm
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International DataWorld Bankhttp://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
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Penn World Tableshttp://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu/pwt.html
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook databasehttps://www.imf.org/en/Data
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Indicators (OECD)https://data.oecd.org/
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Eurostathttp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
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Asian Development Bankhttps://www.adb.org/data/statistics
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Inter-American Development Bank
https://data.iadb.org/
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Eberhardt, Markus. Micro Data. 29th September 2014.https://sites.google.com/site/medevecon/development-economics/devecondata/micro#TOC-Firm-level-data
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European Social Surveyhttp://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/
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CrimeUniform Crime ReportsDUIs
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National Prisoners Statistics
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U.S. Police-Shooting Database (USPSD)
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FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Reportsself-reported
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Shadow EconomyWiseman, Travis. 2013. US shadow economies: a state-level study. Constitutional Political Economy 24:310-335.
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Legal ImmigrationThe Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. Department of Homeland Security.http://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statisticslawful permanent residents, admitted into the U.S. on a temporary basis, applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized by state
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IPUMShttps://cps.ipums.org/cps-action/variables/group
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Unauthorized ImmigrationWarren, R. and Warren J.R. (2013) Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010. International Migration Review. 47(2), 296-329.Total number of unauthorized immigrations per 1000 population. Unauthorized immigrants are calculated as total foreign-born population subtract off fraction of that population that is legally residents and add undercount.
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Divorce RatesNational Vital Statistics System (CDC/NCHS) Divorce rate is based on provisions counts of divorces by state of occurrence. Rates are per 1,999 total population residing in area. Data only available from 2000-2010
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HealthNational Immunization Survey (CDC/NCHS)http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nis.htmThe NIS is a list-assisted random-digit-dialing telephone survey followed by a mailed survey to children’s immunization providers that began data collection in April 1994 to monitor childhood immunization coverage.
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Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent HealthChildhood Obesity State Report Cards
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National Center of Health Statistics Reportswww.cdc.gov/nchs/ Sexual Activity (No. 36)
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Medical Expenditure Panel SurveyPrescription Drugs
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National Survey of Family Growth (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htmFamily life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men's and women's health
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World Health Organization
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive service
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Fragile Families and Child-Well Being Study (FFCWBS)
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OECD Health Data
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Epidemiological Catchment Area Survey
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GovernmentQuality of Governance (QoG)http://qog.pol.gu.se/data/datadownloads/qogstandarddataPDF codebook (downloadable) gives overview of variables
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ICRG (Polity Data)
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International Political Economy (IPE) https://dornsife.usc.edu/graham/useful-stuff/
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EnvironmentalEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA)EPA Air Quality Data
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CDC Wonder, Environmental DataCDC Wonder, Environmental DataCounty-level daily measures of air temperature (degree days), heat index, land surface temperature, outdoor air quality (fine particulate matter) and sunlight (insolation or solar irradiation). Data are available by place (combined 48 conterminous United States, region, division, state, county), time (year, month, day) and specified measure value.
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SHELDUS: Spatial hazard events and losses databaseSHELDUS : spatial hazard events and losses database for the United StatesCounty-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each countyneed to register
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USDA, Economic Research ServiceData available on: Animal Products, Crops, Farm Economy, Farm Practices & Management, Food & Nutrition Assistance, Food Choices & Health, Food Markets & Prices, Food Safety, International Markets & Trade, Natural Resources & Environment, Rural Economy & Population
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U.S. Energy Information AdministrationUS Energy Information AdministrationEnergy and fuel use data for U.S. (and state-level)
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World Resources InstituteWorld Resources Insititute CAIT Historic allows for easy access, analysis and visualization of the latest available international greenhouse gas emissions data for 186 countries, 50 U.S. states, 6 gases, multiple economic sectors, and 160 years - carbon dioxide emissions for 1850-2013 and multi-sector greenhouse gas emission for 1990-2013. Also includes UNFCCC Annex I country-reported greenhouse gas emissions to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.need to register
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Van Haaren, Themelis, & Goldstein, 2010Surveys MSW sent to landfills, recycling, compost, and waste-to-energy facilities drawing on state-by-state data from the nation’s municipal waste systems
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International Energy AgencyInternational Energy AgencyInternational data on coal, electricity, natural gas, oil, renewables, carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion, energy prices and taxes, energy technology research and development, world energy statistics and balances, and forecasts from energy policies.
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Wind Exchangefrom https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/321Wind energy capacity
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Market and Business ResearchBCC Researchhttp://libguides.dickinson.edu/BCCresearchMarket research and industry reports with 5-year forecasts with statistical and analytical information on the markets, applications, industry structure, major players, and other shifts in the industry
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MarketLine Advantagehttp://libguides.dickinson.edu/MarketLineA major database for business research that includes up-to-date information on businesses, industries, and countries
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CompustatExecuComp database CEO compensation
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EQUILARCEO compensation
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Global Financial Data: U.K. Stocks Database and U.S. Stocks Databaseshttp://libguides.dickinson.edu/globalfinancialdataProvides financial data from the United Kingdom including the London bond market, London equities, and emerging markets. Contains London Stock Exchange data including daily prices for London stocks back to 1693. United States data includes current and historical stock data, stock market indices and delisted stocks.Registration and creation of a Global Financial Data login using a Dickinson email address is required. 
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Call Reports DatabaseChicago Federal Reserve BankBank Failures
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Economic and Social indicatorsData Planethttp://libguides.dickinson.edu/c.php?g=56059&p=360034Mostly US, but some international statistics on economic and social indicators, with built-in tools for creating charts and maps.
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Report on World Social Situation
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HousingEuropean Public Real Estate Association (EPRA)EPRA.com or http://libguides.dickinson.edu/go.php?c=20324005Provides access to monthly research reports including Property Transaction report, data for indices and individual stocks, historical index values, historical coverage of corporate actions, EPRA's Best Practices Recommendations data, and academic research on listed real estate commissioned by EPRA. Login required. Contact the Economics Liaison for username/pword.
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Home mortgage disclosure act (HMDA)http://wwwhttps://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/hmdaproducts.htm or micro-data through Data FerrettTo get the data dictionary, click on the link "A Guide to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data" and an excel file will download (Its under the section titled "Documentation").
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Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) How many itemize deductions; total interest paid
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Censushttp://www.census.gov/prod/1/gen/95statab/stlocgov.pdfTable 492 has state-level totals on tax collection, including individual income taxes (the percentage of state revenue coming from individual income taxes could maybe serve as a proxy for the mortgage deduction in the state):
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American housing surveyhttp://www.census.gov/housing/ahs/By metropolitan area
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FFIEChttp://www.ffiec.gov/hmdaadwebreport/aggwelcome.aspx
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SportsSpotracContracts, wages, transactions
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Fan Cost Index
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DebtBank of International SettlementsLong-series on credit (back to 1940)
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JORDÀ-SCHULARICK-TAYLOR MACROHISTORY DATABASEhttp://www.macrohistory.net/data/#DownloadDataTotal Loans to Non-financial Private Sector (nominal, local currency), Mortgage Loans to Non-financial Private Sector (nominal, local currency), Total Loans to Households (nominal, local currency), Total Loans to Business (nominal, local currency) (back to 1870)
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OECD
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Censushttps://www.census.gov/govs/state/0501alst.htmlState-level budget debt and deficits
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EducationCensus1998-2015: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/index.html 1990-1999: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/previous/index.html Educational Attainment
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National Center for Education Statistics; Integrated Post-secondary Education Survey (IPEDS)Includes enrollment, revenue, and financial aid
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National Center for Education Statistics; National Assessment of Educational Progress
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October Supplement of the BLS Current Population Survey
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Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
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U.S. Department of Education
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National Educational Longitudinal Survey
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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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National Longitudinal Study of High School Class of 1972 college transcripts, work experience, test scores, and family background
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National Longitudinal Survey’s Child-Mother File
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Agriculture Agricultural Finance Databook (Fraser | Federal Reserve)https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1279Farm loans
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National Agriculture Workers Survey
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National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Farmland Index
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Federal Farm Credit Bank and Treasury
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EntrepreneurshipKaufman IndexRate of adult non-business owners that start a new business each month
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Government SpendingNation Association of State Budget OfficerState-level
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U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Taxes
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ElectionsNational Election Studies
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Erikson, Robert S. "Economic Conditions and The Presidential Vote." The American Political Science Review 83, no. 2 (1989): 567-73.
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Oil PricesValerie Rameyhttp://econweb.ucsd.edu/~vramey/research.html
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http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/bui1/
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FREDMonthly gas CPI
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Prescription DrugsModrek, Sepideh, Rita Hamad, and Mark R Cullen. "Psychological well-being during the great recession: changes in mental health care utilization in an occupational cohort." American Journal of Public Health 105, no. 2 (2015): 304-310.
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Kivimäki, Mika, Teija Honkonen, Kristian Wahlbeck, Marko Elovainio, Jaana Pentti, Timo Klaukka, Marianna Virtanen, and Jussi Vahtera. 2007. "Organisational downsizing and increased use of psychotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment." Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health 61, no. 2: 154-158. PsycINFO, EBSCOhost (accessed November 13, 2016).
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Domestic ViolenceChowdhury, Anis, Iyanatul Islam, and Donald Lee. 2013. "The Great Recession, Jobs and Social Crises: Policies Matter." International Journal of Social Economics 40, no. 3-4: 220-245. EconLit, EBSCOhost (accessed November 7, 2016).