Data

Data from papers

Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach

• State-level income distribution data, 1998–2019. Includes data for full populations and subgroups defined by gender and race/ethnicity. (readme, data)

Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings

• Data on mean physician earnings in 2017 for the 125 largest commuting zones (1990 vintage), for all physicians and by Medicare specialty. (readme, dta, csv, download all)

Code for using public data

Longitudinally linked basic monthly CPS: Panelize the Current Population Survey based on the methods described in Nekarda (2009), retaining key demographic and labor market variables. (do, readme, example dta, Nekarda 2009)

Common county-level datasets: Assemble panels of measures commonly used as covariates or outcomes of interest in county-level analysis.

• Employment, unemployment, and participation from BLS’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program
  • Average annual measures of employment, unemployment, and labor force participation, available since 1990
  • do, dta
• Income and poverty data from Census’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program
  • Annual data on poverty rates for all individuals, children under 18, and children 5-17 in families, as well as median household income
  • do, dta
• Population data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program
  • Annual data on the population of each county for groups defined by age, race, ethnicity, and sex, available since 1969
  • do, example dta - all counties, 1990-2015