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Datasets for Development Economists. Post a comment if you know any information relevant to each dataset.

Monday, February 4, 2019

Penn World Table (PWT)

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The data source for real GDP per capita across countries over time. Available at www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/ A good overview of how ...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Time Series Version 4

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Downloadable here . The spatial resolution is 30x30 arc-second (about 1x1 km) across the globe between 75 degrees north and 65 degrees south...
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Botswana 1946 census

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Bechuanaland Population and Housing Census of 1946 Acemoglu and Robinson (2012) , p. 412, cite it as the last census of Botswana asking qu...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Doing Business surveys

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Annual cross-country data on regulations, conducted by the World Bank, since 2004. As Djankov (2016)  explains, it originated in academic pa...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Real GDP per capita

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World Development Indicators  (WDI) - in current/constant local currency unit and in current/constant US dollars since 1960 --- Penn Wo...

Jones-Klenow well-being measure across countries

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Constructed by  Jones and Klenow (2016) . Quote from their abstract: We propose a summary statistic for the economic well-being of people ...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Global Preference Survey

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"an experimentally validated survey data set of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trus...
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