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Why did the Federal Reserve change the data about USA GDP?
This happens all the time and is normal. It's due to measurement error. It is hard to measure these things in real time and as time goes by more data comes in, which allows measurement of GDP and ...
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Examples of Applied Micro Paper with R (!) Code and Data in Public Repository
You could try searching the Harvard Dataverse for fileType:"R Data" like this: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/harvard?q=fileType%3A%22R+Data%22
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Are there any non-paywalled reputable economics journals?
I wanted to add two more journals focused on game theory, market, and institutional design :
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/games
http://www.mechanism-design.org
These are new journal (the second is ...
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What are some good repositories for economic data
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is the primary source for US economic data. Other US sources include the Dept of Labor, The Census Bureau, Dept of Commerce, and the US Energy Information ...
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Why did the Federal Reserve change the data about USA GDP?
@BB King's answer is good, but I want to make one point very clear:
The Fed did not change the data.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis revised the data as a part of its 2013 comprehensive revision ...
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Where can I find information on relationships between different commodities?
Quick answer, as I'm on my phone, but product by product input output tables can be obtained from Eurostat for EU countries, and are probably your best bet. Individual countries may have more detail ...
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Download original spreadsheet from Reinhart-Rogoff "Growth in a Time of Debt"
I know this was a while ago now but here is the excel file.
UPDATE: As somebody highlighted this is not the original 2010 file, but it does include the key raw data and some helpful instructions.
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What is the average percent of value an employee makes which he gets on salary (called)?
You are most likely looking for labor or wage share defined as the ratio of labor costs to nominal GDP. It basically expresses how much share of nominal GDP gets captured by labor.
You can find the ...
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Typical Farming Economics Resource
I don't have many books to share but there is the website on Farm economy data from the USDA.
Farm Labor
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/
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What are good dataset alternatives to estimate value functions?
As I understand it, you're trying to estimate a demand system for different goods.
Have a look at Aguiar and Bils (forthcoming AER), who use the consumption expenditure survey to do exactly that. The ...
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Free Data Source for Credit Spreads?
Yes, there's daily data available on the St. Louis Fed's FRED.
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What are some helpful online tools (databases, etc..) for economic analysts?
St. Louis Fed:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
Has very good US data.
I am not aware of a database that systematically aggregates city-level data. I recommend state government sites and, for larger ...
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Data Set for Mankiw, Romer, and Weil 1992
Have you seen the GitHub Project Replicating Mankiw, Romer and Weil 1992? It seems to have both the data and a replication of the original results.
For the curious, the paper is A Contribution to ...
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How can I find which country offers the best income to expense ratio?
I think "Jones, C. I., & Klenow, P. J. (2016). Beyond GDP? Welfare across countries and time. American Economic Review." is the paper you are looking for. In particular the following ...
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Are there any non-paywalled reputable economics journals?
Part of this question is "What is a a reputable economics journal?" There are several rankings.
RePEc was mentioned above. Since this is based on citations and the RePEc database, especially when it ...
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Are there any non-paywalled reputable economics journals?
Ivo Welch at UCLA started the Critical Finance Review (CFR). (I post this maintaining that finance is a subset of economics.) From the website,
The CFR publishes leading academic research in all ...
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Which data on GDP to use?
The answer depends on whether you want accuracy with respect to original (national) sources, more comparability, and how much time you want to spend compiling data.
If you want to focus on a very few ...
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What are some good repositories for economic data
The American Economic Association has a list of resources for Economists, including a page for data, there you find links to many institutions that offer all kinds of data, as well as further journals ...
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Source of commodity production statistics?
I work for Quandl and on our site I can recommend two free historical databases that you may want to check out:
The United Nations Industrial Commodities Database, I believe, shows production ...
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What does the distribution of the savings rate in America look like?
How much do people save?
Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2014, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, p. 22
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Are there any major commodity markets with a public order book?
Major trading exchanges have order books that anyone can see, if they're willing to pay for the service. So in that sense, they are available to the public. For example, anyone can subscribe via a ...
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Surveys which capture income of individuals and other details
You can find education, age, field of work (industry or occupation) in any National Labor Survey.
If you are particularly interested in family composition of individuals, you could be interested by ...
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GDP per industry and per region in Europe
Eurostat is the way to go.
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat (advised that you start from here to get where you want to be because then you see what is actually available)
GDP specifically (I ...
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Free source of large amounts of financial data
I assume that you are looking for macro financial data across countries. So, you can check out:
World Bank Open Data with a specific query on Financial Sector
IMF Financial Statistics or IMF Finances....
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Where one can see the world economy sectors comparison by value?
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) maintains a variety of databases comprising statistics of overall industrial growth, detailed data on business structure and statistics ...
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Distribution of US after-tax money income by household size
You can find this information here. They provide an overview of their results, together with a link to the data and its description. The data is also available through LIS (second item).
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Could the upper quintile pay the annual federal personal income tax for all other quintiles from their annual income?
Here is the latest report of the Congressional Budget Office on federal taxes by households. The main result you are looking for is this one (page 31):
The "Federal Taxes" row shows that the upper ...
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Data on average/typical retail markups
I recommend the Comp-Net database. It is a firm-level data for European countries. It includes a large range of variables, including mark-ups:
Check the documentation for more details.
Many ...
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