Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
Last Updated: Aug 02, 2023     Views: 103

I want to replicate an economics article.  Where's the article's data?

It depends on a few factors, especially: 1) whether the journal requires or encourages sharing data, and 2) who produced the data, e.g. a government, the authors, or a commercial firm.  Sometimes data is restricted because it's expensive or it's sensitive (health info, trade secrets, etc.).

Below are links to data policies for each featured journal, and links to data repositories, when available.  

--Green = easy to get data

--Orange = may be difficult or impossible to get data

  AEA Journals

AEA Journals:  PolicyData:  openICPSR- AEA

Top Quartile Journals

Brookings (BPEA):  PolicyData: Journal's site; accompanies articles

Econometrica:  PolicyData:  Econometrica Supplementary Materials

The Economic Journal:  PolicyData:  Journal's site; accompanies articles

Economic Systems Research:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

Journal of Economic Growth:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

Journal of Economic Surveys:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

Journal of Finance:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

 Journal of Financial Economics:  PolicyData:  linked from articles

 Mathematical Finance:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

 Quarterly Journal of Economics:  PolicyData QJE Dataverse

 Review of Economics and Statistics:  PolicyData:  RESTAT Dataverse

 Review of Economic Studies:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

 Review of Financial Studies:  PolicyData:  Varies per article; see RFS Dataverse

 Review of International Political Economy:  PolicyData:  Varies per article

 World Development:  PolicyData:  Mendeley- World Development

Data was supplied by Annette Buckley, University of California, Irvine.

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