Compiled by myself and Yu-chin Chin with the help of colleagues. Last updated October 2016.
* UW Center for Social Science Computation and Research
* American Economic Association list of economic data sources
* National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) data collection
* National Bureau of Statistics of China
* Sebastian Bauhoff hosts a list of data resources for China on his website:
* Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development
* The World Bank* The Center for International Development
* USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys
* The DevEconData blog
* International Food Policy Research Institute
* The International Household Survey Network
* RAND’s Family Life Surveys for Bangladesh, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Malaysia
* UNICEF’s Multi Indicator Cluster Surveys
* OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
* National Education Longitudinal Survey
* World Resources Institute - the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT)
* The toxic release inventory of emissions in the US
* United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
* Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) (and some helpful hints)
* DataStream: contact Center for Social Science Computation and Research
* Quandl: Although note some datasets housed there require payment.
* Global Financial Database (access via UW Library Resources)
* US Firm-level or Plan-level data: Census of Manufactures (CM).
* Data on contracting from the U.S. Census of Agriculture
* Matched employer-employee data: see Abowd and Kramarz (2005)
* Executive Compensation: Compustat North American within Wharton Research
Data Services: Check with UW Business school library.
* Developing country firm data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
* Global Financial Database (access via UW Library Resources)
* The IMF Data Collection: World Economic Outlook
* Penn World Table by Heston and Summers
* Eurostat
* International Labor Organisation
* Cross-Country
Database for Sector Investment and Capital
* Hall and Jones on worker productivity
* Human capital data (Barro-Lee)
* UN Data
* UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database
* The World Bank World Development Indicators (access via UW Library Resources)
* Global Development Finance (access via UW Library Resources)
* Center for Data Sharing, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
* American Economic Association
suggestions
* International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
* Corruption Perceptions Index
* Heritage Foundation index of economic freedom
* International Peace Research Institute of Oslo on armed conflict
* National Longitudinal Surveys
* The Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
* Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
* Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
* Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
* National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
* Center for Human Resource Research
* OECD International Migration Statistics (IMS)
* US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
* European Community Household Panel
* British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
* German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)
* Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth
* The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey
* Internationally comparable census data from IPUMS Survey
* Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's FRED
* Bureau of Labor Statistics: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
* Minutes of the most recent FOMC meetings
* Other suggestions by the American Economic Association
* Comtrade: the United Nations’ commodity statistics database
* U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data
* USITC Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb
* The World Trade Organization (WTO)
* Michigan library links
* Center for Disease Control and Prevention Data and Statistics (CDC)
* Crime Reports rom Federal Bureau of Investigation
* National Consortium on Violence Research
(Monthly agency level data on crime and arrest)