Useful Data and Links

  • Income Inequality

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics - PSID - is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world.

  • Economic growth

1. WORLD BANK

economic growth and economic policy and social development statistics for all countries

2. IMF

IFS, database on financial system and policy worldwide

3. PENN WORLD TABLE

PPP version of GDP

5. FEDERAL RESERVE ECONOMIC DATA

macroeconomic data

  • Political Economics

4. DEMOCRACY TIME-SERIES DATA

The dataset merges indicators from various sources. Amongst others Alesina, Cheibub and Gandhi, Freedom House, International IDEA, KOF, Polity IV, Transparency Internationa, Vanhanen, World Bank and World Values Survey.

Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2013

  • International Trade and Chinese Economy

Journals in International Trade and Chinese Economy

Journal of International Economics

Review of International Economics

World Economy

Journal of Comparative Economics

China Economic Review

Datasets on China Economy

China Industrial enterprise survey

China Custom Transaction Data

  • Economic History

Journals in Economic history

Journal of Economic History

Economic History Review

Explorations in Economic History

European Review of Economic History

Cliometrica

People and Institutions

professor Nan Li (http://shufelinan.weebly.com/data-archive.html)

professor Debin Ma (http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mad1)

Databases

Global Price and Income History Group (http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/)

Department of Economic History (http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/home.aspx)

China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)

Qing Dynasty Grain Price Database