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
Explorations in Economic History
European Review of Economic History
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)