Econ 309: Research Resources

Great US Government Provided Data

• • Data.gov Supposedly everything is here

  • FRED - St. Louis Federal Reserve, with a lot of public finance related data

  • US Census

    • Poverty Information Page

    • State government finances

  • CIA World Factbook

• Statistical Abstract of the United States - Everything is in here!

• Economic Report of the President

• Historical Statistics of the United States

  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB, Executive Branch)

  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Budget of the United States

  • National Center of Educational Statistics

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (How much do physicians get paid?)

  • IPUMS Census and Survey Data from the US and the world

Research Economics Databases

• NBER Databases

  • Library of Economics and Liberty index of economics datasets

• Economic History Association

  • Brookings Institution Metro Areas

  • Autor, Dorn, and Hanson's China Shock data

Taxation

• • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

• US Treasury

• The Tax Foundation

• Tax History Project

  • Tax Policy Center - Urban Institute & Brookings Institution

  • Cato - Libertarian Think Tank

International Public Finance Data

• OECD

  • PISA education data

  • Tax Database - Information about most of the industrialized countries

  • OECD 2015 Fact Book

  • Wikipedia on tax rates around the world

US Healthcare

• • Center for Disease Control (CDC)

• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

  • Kaiser Foundation's StateHeathFacts.org and more from Kaiser (OECD countries)

  • The Commonwealth Fund - Health research

    • How is Illinois doing?

  • Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS, Slate has an August 14, 2009 description of how HEDIS has been used.)

  • OECD "Doing Better for Children" - 2009

  • Heathcare Blue Book - The Healthcare Blue Book is a free consumer guide to help you determine fair prices in your area for healthcare services. If you pay for your own healthcare, have a high deductible or need a service your insurance does not fully cover, we can help. The Blue Book will help you find fair prices for surgery, hospital stays, doctor visits, medical tests and much more.

  • Berkeley Electronic Press Forum for Health Economics and Policy - Many good research articles

World Heathcare Comparisons

• • World Health Organization (WHO)

    • WHO World Health Report (US ranked 37th, which is largely silly)

• OECD Health Data

  • • Some analysis of OECD data from www.nationmaster.com

• • University of California San Francisco Atlas of Global Inequality