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The following is a list of smaller, publicly available data sets. For access to larger data sets or if you have questions about access to proprietary data, please email dus_asst@econ.duke.edu.


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Insured individuals
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The Effect of Community Uninsurance Rates on Access to Health Care among the InsuredIsabella Antonio2025
Police data post-2020Action or Distraction? Assessing the Impact of Post-2020 Police Use of Force Reforms in American CitiesVineet Chovatia2025
Railroad crossings & accidents 2014-2023
(Email for Access)
The Impact of Quiet Zone Implementation on Accident Incidence at Highway-rail Grade CrossingsJack Duhon2025
Regulatory and demographic/economic data – 2006 and 2018The Impact of Land Use Restriction on Housing Supply and Urban FormBrendan Elliott2025
Property value appreciation Land vacancy data
(Email for Access)
Directing Development: Do One-Way Roads Inhibit Downtown Development? A Case Study of Hickory, North CarolinaAdeleine Geitner2025
2013 – 2022 Vietnam Annual Enterprise Survey.
(Email for Access) 
How Foreign Direct Investment Impacts Domestic Productivity: The Case of VietnamMinh Phuong Nguyen Hoang2025
FBI UCR Data on ArrestsAlcohol Use and Assault: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Legal Drinking AgeMaggie Hu2025
Cattle Drought LFP DataDrought Exposure and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program: Impacts on U.S. Cattle PopulationsHelena Kagan2025
USWTDB, BEA, BLS, US Census Bureau, NASS, Harvard DataverseWho Gets Wind? Investigating Economic Attributes of Iowa Counties Prior to Wind Turbine DevelopmentKarianna Klassen2025
Macroeconomic and social indicators of OECD countries.The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility in OECD CountriesTimothy Lloyd O’Brien2025
State-level emissions data.
(Email for Access) 
Evaluating Emissions Reductions through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: A State and Plant-Level AnalysisNicholas Papavassiliou2025
240k observations
(Email for Access) 
Externalities of Overhead Power Lines on Residential Housing ValuesJake Park-Walters2025
OpusData
Reel Representation: The Economic Impact of Gender on Bollywood Box Office RevenueSidharth Ravi2025
Monthly remittances (2005-2025), quarterly “visitors” series (2010-2024Q3), region-by-year “flows” series (2021-2023). Covariates, target variables, encoded seasonal dummies.
(Email for access to Inflow, outflow, and Netflow sets)  
In the Shadow of War: Assessing Conflict-Driven Disruptions in the Kyrgyzstan-Russia Labor Pipeline via a Gradient Boosting Approach to NowcastingMichelle Schultze2025
VOTER survey 2016-2020
(Email for Access) 
Economic Perception and Cable News: Evidence from Panel Data, 2016–2020Audrey Wang2025
Florida-UCLA LoPucki’s Bankruptcy Research Database , 1979-2022Last Second Comebacks: Examining Influencers of Bankruptcy SuccessEric Zhang2025
State Firearms Law Database, 1991-2020
A Two-Stage Analysis Considering Gun Theft & Overall Crime: Evidence from Child Access Prevention LawsRonan Brew2024
NYT and WS Data  The Press and Peace, Examining Iraq War Coverage in Newspapers using BERT LLMsJakobe Bussey2024
Experiment DataThe Sub-proportionality of Subjective Probability Weighting in PokerLiam Clark2024
Australia Higher Education from Australian Bureau of StatisticsFree University? An Investigation of Australia’s 1974 Free Higher Education Policy and Its Impact on Enrollment, Degree Completion, Later-Life Occupational Status, and IncomeYaxuan “Annie” Cui2024
Investments data and dummy variablesFact or Fluff: Does Wording Used by Gene Editing Companies Affect Investor Behaviors?Thomas Freireich2024
1000 simulated markets and a number of summary stats.A Comparison of the HHI and the Procurement-Based Framework in Merger ReviewKenny Gong2024
All variables needed for regressionBlaze of Distrust: The Impact of Wildfires on Social Capital and Governance in Brazilian AmazoniaFeishi Gong2024
PSID Cleaned data
*Data not currently available.
Inter-generational Economic Transfers and Wealth Inequality in the United StatesParinay Gupta2024
Cost data on acute-care hospitals, longitudinal. Set 1
(Email for Access to Medicare and Hospital data)  
Investing in Rural Healthcare: Impact of Private Equity Acquisition on Financial and Utilization Outcomes of Rural HospitalsAmanda He2024
Geographic splitting data and CCES Panel Study responses, 2010
(Email for Access)
Splitting Hairs or Splitting Regions:The Differential Democratic Impacts of Splitting ZIP Codes vs. Counties During RedistrictingJacob Hervey2024
Statistics of airline performance
(Email for Access)
Airline Non-Price Competition Between FSC and LCC Carriers: Varying Airline Optimization StrategiesLucas Johnson2024
Daily high values for stocksDo Green Stocks Get You the Green? Differential Impacts of S&P 500 ESG Index Labels on Firm Stock PricesHeera Rajavel2024
1. SMU DataArts
2. US Census Bureau
3. Health Center Program GeoCare Navigator
4. Missouri Data Center
(Email for Access)
Arts Organizations and Community Socioeconomic DevelopmentMadeleine Reinhard2024
Demographic and economic data at the census tract level, 2008-2020
(Email for Access)  
School Choice and Neighborhood Change in Post-Katrina New OrleansRosalind Yang2024
Florida-UCLA LoPucki’s Bankruptcy Research Database, 1979-2022Last Second Comebacks: Examining Influencers of Bankruptcy SuccessEric Zhang2024
1. Population Survey, 2021 July-December
2. Regional Price Parities
3. County-level Covid cases, 2021
4. County to MSA conversion FIPS codes
5. U.S. Census county population estimate, 2021
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The Impact of 2021 Advance Child Tax Credit Payments on Low-Income Households’ Labor SupplyZixin “Ellen” Zhang2024
Experiment subject decisions Religious Identity and Climate-Sustainable BehaviorZixin “Finnie” Zhao2024
Infant Mortality Data, 1995 – 2004, Language Access Laws dates, CPS estimates of income (Email for Access)Impact of Language Access Laws on LEP Infant Mortality RatesAndrew Griffin2023
High Tech M and A DataWhat Affects Post-Merger Innovation Outcomes? An Empirical Study of R&D Intensity in High Technology Transactions Among U.S. FirmsNeha Karna2023
Publicly accessible NLSY97An Analysis of the Labor Market Returns to Community College and Vocational TrainingEli Levine2023
PPD 2.1
*Data not currently available. 
Improving Institutional Performance: Foreign Aid Evaluation and Determinants of Foreign Aid Project Success RatingsSusan O’Keefe2023
Property and water quality data (Email for Access)The Effect of Algae Blooms on Property Values located on Florida’s Indian River LagoonCameron DeChurch2023
Dataset
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Price Determinants and Depreciation of Used Cars Post-COVID-19Ayaan Patel2023
8 stocks from Shenzhen Stock Exchange Set 1, Set 2Short Term Effectiveness of Chinese Stock Connect Program — a Study of the Pricing Dynamics of Cross-listed StocksKaiyu Ren2023
Per vehicle emissions, cumulative costs and benefitsThe True Cost: An Aggregate Analysis of the Advanced Clean Cars II PolicyLauren Sizemore2023
Sir Lanka Lights Conflict Data Illuminating the Economic Costs of Conflict: A Night Light Analysis of the Sri Lankan Civil WarNicholas Kiran Wijesekera2023
NFT collection data + market data.
(Email for Access)
Determinants of Sustained Success in NFT MarketsEmily Xu2023
Economic Situations Social DistanceEconomic Situations and Social Distance: Taxation and DonationAlexander Brandt2022
World values survey data for Russia and Ukraine waves 3, 5, 6, and 7.The Russian Maternity Capital Policy: Two ModelsJackson Cooksey2022
Donbas Yearly DataEconomic Effects of the War in Donbas: Nightlights and the Ukrainian fight for freedomRiad Kanj2022
ESG Rating And Disclosure DataThe Effect of Sustainability Reporting on ESG RatingsArthur Leutkemeyer2022
STAR Students DataPeer Effects & Differential Attrition: Evidence from Tennessee’s Project STARSanjay Satish2022
Property CharacteristicsImpact of Utility-Scale Solar Farms on Property Values in North CarolinaMegan Wang2022
Film Casting and Earnings DataAnalysis of the Impact of Gender and Age of Protagonists in Top-Grossing Films from 2000-2019 on Film SuccessDaniella Welton2022
Federal Reserve Economic DataAfter The Mega-Buyout Era: Do Public-to-Private Transactions Still Outperform?Bryn Wilson2022
Refinance Survey DataHeterogeneity in Mortgage RefinancingJulia Wu2022
Cobalt Market DataForecasting the Effects of Battery Recycling on the Global Cobalt MarketElena Cavallero2021
Bosnia Conflict DataThe Impact of Conflict on Economic Activity: Night Lights and the Bosnian Civil WarStephanie Dodd2021
Task Characteristics And Share ChangePredicting the Work Task Replacement Effects of the Adoption of Machine Learning TechnologyShreya Hurli2021
Brain Diagnoses CTE DataAnalysis of Brain Diagnoses and the Incidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)Arjun Lakhanpal2021
Myocardial Infarction Health Behavior and the Grossman Model DataMyocardial Infarction, Health Behavior, and the Grossman ModelEmma Marie Mehlhop2021
PO DataInforming the Investor: A Comparative Analysis of the Importance of Pre-Initial Public Offering (IPO) Information on Stock PerformancePaul Snyder2021
Payment DataThe Effects of Leveraged Buyouts on Health OutcomesRobert Williams2021
Financial statements of selection of eurozone companies impacted by the ECB’s CSPP, 2008-2019Where did the money go? Impact of the ECB’s Corporate Sector Purchase Program on eurozone corporate spendingTina Tian2020
FDA Data on Medical Device Applications, 1976-2019Competition and Innovation: Evidence from Third-Party Reprocessing in the Medical Device IndustryVarun Prasad2020
Buyout Acquisition Premium DataDetermining the Drivers of Acquisition Premiums in Leveraged BuyoutsPeter Noonan2020
Capital Investment DataPrivate Equity Buyouts and Strategic Acquisitions: An Analysis of Capital Investment and the Timing of Takeovers in the United StatesAnthony Melita2020
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Government-to-Government Loan DataInvestigating the Impact of Chinese Financing on Productivity in the African ContinentKedest Mathewos2020
Sneaker Resale Transaction Data
(Email for Access)
Hedonic Pricing in the Sneaker Resale MarketKevin Ma, Matthew Treiber2020
Hospital Visit Data
(Email for Access)
The Effects of Health IT Innovation on Throughput Efficiency in the Emergency DepartmentMichael Levin2020
2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis Bankruptcy Data
(Email for Access)
Forecasting Corporate Bankruptcy: Applying Feature Selection Techniques to the Pre-and Post-Global Financial Crisis EnvironmentsParker Levi2020
Inpatient DataThe Impact of Medicare Nonpayment: A Quasi-Experimental ApproachAudrey Kornkven2020
High School Longitudinal Study, 2009
(Email for Access)
Bridging the Persistence Gap: An Investigation of the Under-representation of Female and Minority Students in STEM FieldsAaditya Jain, Bailey Kaston2020
Panel DataComparing the Performance of Active and Passive Mutual Funds in Developing and Developed CountriesNalini Gupta2020
Motor Vehicle Negligence Jury Verdict DataVariability in Jury Awards for Noneconomic Damages in Motor Vehicle Negligence CasesMax Cherman2020
Panel Survey, Demographic, GIS and Charitable Giving DataNonprofit Location, Survival, and Success: A Case Study of El Sistema USAAndie Carroll2020
Cannabis Sale and Tax Revenue DataTaxing Marijuana and the Road to Reparations: Comparing the Colorado and Illinois Cannabis MarketsTommaso Carlo Filippo Babucci2020
Google Trends dataICT Behavior at the PeripheryErik Hanson, Justin LoTurco2019
FTSE100 Previous Constituents from 1995 to 2018
(Email for Access)
Overreaction in the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE)Yusuke Legard2019
Film DataThe Impact of Originality in a Transitioning Movie IndustryJacob Graber-Lipperman2019
Data Sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Current Population SurveyFamily Leave and Child Care Policy Across States: Implications for Labor Force Participation Over TimeKelly Albert2019
Panel Data from the Survey of Household Income and WealthSocial Capital and Financial Development after Economic Shocks: Evidence from Italy after the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009Ethan Lampert, Sujay Rao2019
Model Output, Electricity and Price data, Carbon Price Data, and Electricity Generators used in this study
(Email for Access)
Responses to EU Carbon Pricing: The Effect of Carbon Emissions Allowances on Renewable Energy Development in Advanced and Transitional EU MembersJohn Dearing2019
Electricity Price, Generation, Installed Capacity, and Carbon Price Data from the European Union from January 2015 to December 2018Cashing Out the Benefits: The Spillover Impact of Cash Transfers on Household Educational InvestmentMatheus Dias, Mitchell Ochse2019
Daily report numbers by subgroup, search volume, and columns for IV analysisDoes Media Coverage of Sexual Assault Cases Cause Victims to Go to the Police? Evidence from FBI Data and Google TrendsHarry Elworthy2019
Return on Average Assets
(Email for Access)
Investigating the Costs of Religious Observance: Cross-Country Analysis of Islamic BankingMyla Swallow, Richard Vargo2019
Acceptance Rates for Asylum Seekers in the European Union 2000-2016Asylum Determination within the European Union (EU): Whether Capacity and Social Constraints Impact the Likelihood of Refugee Status DeterminationLouden Richason2019
Monthly Returns and CSAD for 11 Different Industries in 8 Different CountriesWrangling the Herd: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Industry Approach to Herding Market BehaviorTyler Fenton, Jarred Kotzin2019
Regression discontinuity design on a gravity model of trade among 36 Middle Eastern and East Asian countries between 1980 and 2014
(Email for Access)
The Future of Economic Geopolitics: Network Effects in Intercultural TradeJoshua Curtis2019
College Admissions and Athletics DataThe Impact of Collegiate Athletic Success and Scandals on Admissions ApplicationsWilliam Battle-McDonald2019
Market Condition DataInvestigating a Case of Alleged Collusion in Michigan Public Oil and Gas Lease AuctionsLucas Do2019
Merged Data from the Mexican Family Life Survey and INEGI Homicide Data
(Email for Access)
The Impact of Violence in Mexico on Education and Labor Outcomes: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Have a Mitigating Effect?Haley Barton2019
IFLS Modules and Gold Pricing Data24K Magic: Evidence on Maternal Asset Ownership and Children’s Long Term Outcomes in IndonesiaMaya Durvasula2018
CoreLogic Housing Transaction Data
(Email For Access)
The Impact of Environmental Disamenities on Property Values: Evaluation the Municipal FringeRyan Hoecker2018
United States Temp. and Demographic DataGlobal Warming and Obesity: The Effect of Ambient Temperature on BMIAakash Jain2018
Bond DataAn Analysis of Passive and Active Bond Mutual Fund PerformanceMichael Kiffel2018
Metro Entrepreneurial DataEntrepreneurial Attractiveness: Amazon, Google, and the Search for Innovative Hot SpotsAnna Kropf2018
Forward DE, Baseline Valuation and Combined Model DataEvaluation of the Impact of New Rules in FCC’s Spectrum Incentive AuctionElizabeth Lim, Akshaya Trivedi and Frances Mitchell2018
Multi-Horizon Forecast DataMulti-Horizon Forecast Optimality Based on Related Forecast ErrorsChristopher MacGibbon2018
Saudi Arabia Economic Performance DataThe Impact of a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime on Growth and Volatility in an Oil-dependent EconomyShihab Malik and Faisal Alsaadi2018
NLSY79 Housing Commute DataThe Toll of Commuting: The Effects of Commute Time on Well-BeingM. Thomas Marshall Jr.2018
Patent DataEvaluating the Forward Citations-Patent Value Relationship: The Role of CompetitionNeelesh Moorthy2018
NLS Children and Young Adults DataThe Effects of Parental Division of Employment on Child Outcomes During AdulthoodMeredith Parenti2018
Bitcoin Variables and Twitter Sentiment DataEffect of Sentiment on Bitcoin Price FormationBrian Perry-Carrera2018
LPPL Model Index DataEvaluating Asset Bubbles within Cryptocurrencies using the LPPL ModelRafal Rokosz2018
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey DataAssessing the Impacts of an Aging Population on Rising Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Expenditures within the United StatesRahul Sharma2018
Tennis Match DataIncentives to Quit in Men’s Professional Tennis: An Empirical Test of Tournament TheoryWill Walker2018
Miami-Dade district dataPerceptions vs. Reality: School Climate in Miami-Dade CountyMakda Habtom and Yuliya Kozina2017
Japanese income and population data by townJapan’s Furusato Nouzei (Hometown Tax): Which Areas Get How Much, and Is It Really Working?Kay Hasegawa2017
Employment indices covariates dataSegregation, Bargaining Power and Environmental JusticeKai Yu Lee2017
License and bidder dataStructural Estimation of FCC Bidder ValuationRenhao Tan, Zachary Lim, and Jackie Xiao2017
Regional data on each country exploredThe Puzzle of Mobile Money Markets: An Example of Goldilocks ConditionsRicardo Martínez-Cid and Gonzalo Pernas2017
Data sourced from Datastream fuel priceThe Impact of Fossil Fuel Prices on Alternative Energy StocksRoman Milioti2017
Monthly returns of the funds used, Fama-French Economic model, STATA regression results, and the tables used in the paperVanguard’s Index Funds vs. Vanguard’s Managed Funds: a Nine Style Box and Fama-French Multi-Variable Regression ApproachSusheel Nalla2017
Variable constructed from World Bank Group’s Women, Business, and the Law 2012 databaseThe Effects of Religion and Patriarchal Norms on Female Labor Force ParticipationChidinma Hannah Nnoromele2017
Team level offensive and defensive statistics What Gets Paid? Analyzing the Major League Baseball Contract MarketBrian Pollack2017
Two datasets used to calculate measures of gentrificationThe Link between Gentrification and Displacement and the Effects of Displacement on Residents in Los Angeles CountyAshley Qiang2017
Data covers exchange rate, investment, and control variable data for

all of the countries in the study

The Investment Cost of Currency Crises in Emerging Markets: An Empirical Treatment from 1994-2015Eric Ramoutar2017
Payroll performance data on professional sports teamsTeam Payroll Versus Performance in Professional Sports: Is Increased Spending Associated with Greater Success?Grant Shorin2017
NBA franchise panel dataDeterminants of Franchise Value in the National Basketball AssociationMatthew Van Liedekerke2017
Indian urban health dataThe Neighborhood Effect on Health Outcomes for Women in Urban IndiaPriyanka Venkannagari2017
Complete variable set used for the paperMacroeconomic and Capital Market Determinants of Venture Capital InvestmentJeffrey Zeren2017
Statistics and google search data on favorites and underdogsDeterminants of NFL Spread Pricing: Incorporation of Google Search Data Over the Course of the Gambling WeekShiv S. Gidumal and Roland D. Muench2017
National longitudinal survey of youth 1979 for BMI calculationObesity and its Impact on Job QualityKelly Lessard2016
Monthly return data on stock indices from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United KingdomDealing with Data: An Empirical Analysis of Bayesian Black-Litterman Model ExtensionsDaniel Roeder2015
Cross sectional data on GDP per capita and social characteristics of each respective countryThe Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth a Regional Comparative StudyPaige Muggeridge2015
The number of regular season wins and losses for all NBA teams from the 1999-2014 seasonsThe New Landscape of the NBA: The 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement’s Impact on Competitive Balance and Players’ SalariesNichoals Yam2015
HMDA data on home purchase loans in Durham and New Haven for the years 2007-2013The Effect of Minority History on Racial Disparities in the Mortgage Market: A Case Study of Durham and New HavenJisoo Yoon2015
Measures a personal, subjective value for either a food or a non food item for each subjectA computational model of food choice: Utility optimization through external cuing and heuristic searchLucie Yang2015
Data on US energy consumption, costs, and demandOptimizing the Electricity Bill Creating a two-part electricity tariffs to induce a targeted level of rooftop solar adoption while meeting utility operating expensesHoel Weisner2015
IMF data on industrial output, CPI, interest rate, exchange rates, and debtUnderstanding the Argentine Peso’s Devaluation in 2014 —Analysis on Argentina’s Fiscal Sustainability from 1993 to 2013Feng Pan2015
Estimates of stock portfolio betas
(EMAIL FOR ACCESS)
Conditional Beta Model for Asset Pricing by Sector in the U.S. Equity MarketsYuci Zhang2014
Performance of shooters in all professional men’s penalty kick shootouts, 1972 – 2013 Optimal Lineups in Penalty Kick Shootouts: An Empirical and Theoretical InvestigationLucas Hubbard2014
Cross-sectional data from the Microfinance Information Exchange
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What is the Effect of Regulatory Supervision on the Profitability and Outreach of Microfinance Institutions?Nikolaus Axmann2014
Defensive medicine data with claims (or without claims)Has Tort Reform Been Effective in Abating the Medical Malpractice Crisis? An Empirical Analysis from 1991 – 2012Raj Singh2014
Video game sales dataVideo Game Sales: Does Diversity Play?Helena Wu2014
Housing transaction data from Dataquick Information Services via U.S. EPAExceeding the Threshold: Analysis of Public Information Transfer using Instrumental VariablesGabrielle Inder2014
Household and child characteristics of villages with SHGsThe Impact of Micro-Banking on Health: Evidence from Self-Help Group Involvement and Child NutritionMadeline McKelway2014
2005 and 2008 waves of interviews of Chinese elderly aged 65-110Are the Chinese Altruistic? Explaining Motives behind Chinese Intergenerational Transfers using the Strategic Bequest MotiveLucy Yin2014
Data from SpottedRatings.com on weekly updates on the ratings for the Big Four networksThe Impact of Online Streaming on Primetime Viewership An Econometric Analysis of Technological Change, Network Practices and Audience BehaviorYeshwanth Kandimalla2014
Data on Congressional candidate winners of the 106th to the 110th Congress and state legislative candidates of their net worth, gender, race, chamber and the congressional election they participated in Determining the Effect of Personal and Familial Wealth on Congressional and State Legislative Election OutcomesAnisha Khemlani2014
Marijuana transaction information about price, quantity, location, date, and user-rated quality
Marijuana Pricing Structure and State-Level Price DeterminantsRebecca Li2014
Socioeconomic indicators, income levels, education, migration, and household assets of Oportunidades grant recipients The effect of Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Migration DecisionsAki Ishikawa2014
Financial statements that contain critical measurements of bankrupt and non-bankrupt construction companies
Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction in North American Construction IndustryGang Li2014
Data on newspaper circulation The Determination of Newspaper Slant in Small MarketsJordyn Gracey2014
Data on the labor market activities and special life events of multiple groups of men and women in the United StatesUndergraduate Education and the Gender Wage Gap: An Analysis of the Effects of College Experience and Gender on IncomeKelsey Siman2014
Key macroeconomic indicators that determine their relationship with military and non-military government spendingThe Economic Effects of Military and Non-Military Government SpendingPatrick Royal2014
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