International data and data on developing countries

• Macro Data 4 Stata.  From the web site description: “Importing publicly available datasets into statistical software is often tedious and time consuming: the original dataset needs to be converted from its original format; longitudinal datasets need to be reorganized in a form suitable for analyzing panel data; and datasets from different sources need to be carefully merged. This last step is particularly time consuming because country codes and names tend to vary across datasets. Macro Data 4 STATA addresses these issues by homogenizing several commonly used macroeconomic datasets and importing them into STATA.”
• DEVECONDATA. Datasets for Development Economists.
• Michael Kremer’s guide to developing country data sets. Michael Kremer, a leading development economist, provides a guide to developing country data, with many links, here.
• Measure DHS — Demographic and Health Surveys for Developing Countries. This is ths source of data used in Fortson’s paper on AIDS and education; similar surveys are available for many countries and many years through this web site.
• Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, Harvard University. Click on the “Data” link on their web page for links to a vast array of data sets from developing countries.
• International Food Policy Research Institue data page.  IFPRI offers access to and links numerous publicly available, free, micro-level data sets from developing countries, including for example data on the Progresa / Opportunidades program in Mexico.
• World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study web page. Household data sets from a large number of different developing countries.
• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL).  Economists who do randomized evaluation research in developing countries. Research papers are posted on their web site; they have also posted data sets for select papers.
  
  
  
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• IPUMS-International. User-friendly access to micro-level census data from a large number of countries around the world.
• OECD iLibrary.  Extensive statistics on OECD nations.
• World Bank WITS data base. Includes data on trade between each country in the world, as well as tariffs and other information.
• World Bank data page.
• Penn World Tables.
• World Development Indicators (note: this is now also available through “Macro Data 4 Stata” above).
• Center for International Development at Harvard University — Research Datasets Page.  This site makes available numerous mostly cross-country data sets that have been used to study a variety of questions, especially those related to economic growth and development.
• The World Values Survey.  “A place to learn more about values and cultural changes in societies all over the world.”
• Education Policy and Data Center.  “The EPDC has the world’s largest international education database with over 3.8 millon data points from 200 countries. The data comes from national and international websites including household survey datasets as well as studies and reports.”
• EdStats. “EdStats collects worldwide data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources.”
• Peter Lindert’s data page.  Extensive collection of historical data from a large number of countries.
• World Bank Doing Business Indicators.  Includes data on taxation and regulation for a large number of countries.
• International Education Statistics.  Compiled by Friedrich Huebler.
• Terra Populus. Terra Populus integrates the world’s population and environmental data, including: population censuses and surveys; land cover information from remote sensing; climate records from weather stations; land use records from statistical agencies.
• This Time Is Different.  International historical data on financial crises assembled for the book This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhardt and Kenneth Rogoff.