Description
There has been a spectacular increase in the availability and quality of data from developing countries in recent years. Many of these datasets are either in the public domain or can be obtained at modest cost from the data collection agency. This page is intended as a resource to help locate those data. The International Household Survey Network provides links to documentation to many of these and other data. Some of the data are available at ICPSR, the World Bank Microdata Catalog and the Harvard Dataverse Network which houses data produced by JPAL. We provide links to some of the data that are on-line and explanations of how to obtain others.
There has also been a huge investment in methods that isolate exogenous variation in programs, policies, opportunities and constraints. Randomized controlled trials have played a central role in this work. The AEA maintains a Registry of RCTs which is an extremely valuable resource for investigators to register their RCTs and to learn about on-going or completed RCTs.