2  Data

The following provides the full list of data that we will use this semester. Some of the links below are to data posted on my website; others point to data hosted externally (if you notice any broken links, please let me know).

Note: some of the datasets below require installing an R package. For example, to access the Airq data, you need to install the Ecdat package first (i.e., by running install.packages("Ecdat")) and then run data(Airq, package="Ecdat").

• acs

  • Data from the 2019 American Community Survey about Education and Earnings

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• Airq

  • Data about air quality in California counties in 1972.

  • Access: data(Airq, package="Ecdat")

  • Description: ?Ecdat::Airq

• AJR

  • Data about GDP, institutions, and settler mortality

  • Access: data(AJR, package="hdm")

  • Description: ?hdm::AJR

• banks

  • Data about bank closures in Mississippi during the Great Depression

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• Birthweight_Smoking

  • Data about infant birthweights and mother’s smoking from PA 1989

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Mark Watson’s website

• Caschool

  • School-level test score data from California in 1998-1999

  • Access: data(Caschool, package="Ecdat")

  • Description: ?Ecdat::Caschool

• diamond_train

  • Data about diamond prices. The full version of this data I got from Kaggle, and then I split it into training and testing data.

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: A description of each column in the data is available under the Description tab on Kaggle

• diamond_test

  • Out of sample version of diamond_train data

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: A description of each column in the data is available under the Description tab on Kaggle

• Fair

  • Individual-level data about affairs in the United States

  • Access: data(Fair, package="Ecdat")

  • Description: ?Ecdat::Fair

• fastfood

  • Data about fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania from Card and Krueger (1994)

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• Fatalities

  • State-level panel data about drunk driving laws and traffic fatalities

  • Access: data(Fatality, package="AER")

  • Description: ?AER::Fatality

• Fertility

  • Data from Angrist and Evans (1998) about fertility and female labor supply

  • Access: data(Fertility, package="AER")

  • Description: ?AER::Fertility

• fertilizer_2000

  • Country-level data about fertilizer and crop yields from the year 2000. See description of fertilizer_panel below for more details

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• fertilizer_panel

  • Country-level panel data from 1965-2000 (every 5 years) about fertilizer and crop yields for 68 developing countries. This data is a smaller version of the data used in McArthur, John W., and Gordon C. McCord. “Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development.” Journal of Development Economics 127 (2017): 133-152. url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.02.007.

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• gapminder

  • Country-level panel data from 1952-2007 about life expectancy, GDP per capita, and population

  • Access: data(gapminder, package="gapminder")

  • Description: ?gapminder::gapminder

• house

  • U.S. House of Representatives elections data from 1946-1998

  • Access: Course Website](r course_website_link)

  • Description: Course Website

• intergenerational_mobility

  • Intergenerational mobility data from PSID

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• Lead_Mortality

  • Infant mortality and lead pipes in 1900

  • Access: Access: Course Website

  • Description: Mark Watson’s website

• mlda

  • Car accident deaths by age group

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• mroz

  • Labor force particpation of married women

  • Access: data(mroz, package="wooldridge")

  • Description: ?wooldridge::mroz

• mutual_funds

  • Mutual fund performance data

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• rand_hie

  • RAND health insurance experiment

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website

• Star

  • Data from Project STAR that randomly assigned some students to smaller class sizes

  • Access: data(Star, package="Ecdat")

  • Description: ?Ecdat::Star

• titanic_training

  • Passenger level data on surviving Titanic. This data is a slightly adapted version of the titanic data on Kaggle

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Kaggle

• titanic_testing

  • Out of sample version of titanic_training data

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Kaggle

• us_data

  • Data from the 2019 American Community Survey via IPUMS

  • Access: Course Website

  • Description: Course Website