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Empowering women: Inheritance rights and female education in India 2010-2015
This project used the 1999 wave of the Rural Economic and Demographic Survey (REDS), which is a representative survey of rural households in the 17 major states of India.18,19... -
When is capital enough to get female micro enterprises growing? Evidence from...
The data collected from the experiment consists of variations in sizes of businesses owned by women and men. It also consists of the profits from their respective businesses... -
The power of political voice: Women's political representation and crime in I...
The data consists of records of reported number of crimes at the district and state level from various issues of the “Crime in India” publications of the National Crime Records... -
Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation 2010-2015
This project is aimed at empirically demonstrating that genetic diversity, predominantly determined during the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of humans, is an underlying... -
Targeting the ultra poor in Bangladesh, household survey 2014
A household survey of a randomized control trial in rural Bangladesh conducted in 2014 which collected data on the long-run outcomes of the Targeting the Ultra Poor program... -
Long‐run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy 2010-2015
This paper seeks to study the long lasting effects of the Habsburg Empire's institutions on current trust on government entities, on the same territory. Towards this end, the... -
The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative developme...
The authors propose a unified growth theory to explain demographic empirical regularities. They calibrate the model to match data moments for Sweden in 2000 and around 1800. The... -
Historical light aids to navigation 1514-1911
This dataset for Historical Light Aids to Navigation (LAN) shows the development of historical lighthouses, lightships, harbour lights and beacons in England and Wales for... -
What happens when a woman wins an election? Evidence from close races in Braz...
The project used secondary data to assess the role of women as policymakers in Brazil by analysing mayoral elections. The project focuses on two municipal administration... -
Under the radar: the effects of monitoring firms on tax compliance 2010-2015
The project analyses the effects of size-dependent tax enforcement on firm's tax compliance. The empirical analysis, uses data from financial statements that Spanish firms must... -
Take what you can: Property rights, contestability and conflict 1997-2020
We constructed a data set containing the share of land under protection for the 792 municipalities in the Amazon states for each year between 1997 and 2010. The project exploits... -
Business practices in small firms in developing countries 2010-2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labour force in developing... -
Does the unemployment benefit institution affect the productivity of workers?...
Dataset is comprised of experimental outcomes and observational data. The project investigates whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity.... -
Pre-reformation roots of the protestant ethic 2010-2015
This collection consists of a mixture of historical and survey-based datasets which enabled the testing of the Protestant work ethic having a pre-reformation origin in the... -
A new attribute-linked residential property price dataset for England and Wal...
Land Registry Price Paid Data (PPD) have been published as open data since 2013. These data have been transformative for house price variation research in the UK as they are a... -
The wind of change: maritime technology, trade and economic development 2020
The data in this collection consists of historical data relating to trade patterns and development indicators which enabled the testing of, firstly, the role of a reduction in... -
Not the opium of the people: Income and secularisation in a panel of Prussian...
The authors construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911; to study the interplay between... -
Economic activity and family history data management code 2020
Collection consists of Stata do files which reformat the economic activity history, partner history and parenthood history variables included in the ELSA life history study... -
Benchmarked municipal water price data for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2011-2015
This data compares municipal water charges for a number of reasonably wealthy global cities, with GDP per capita shown for context. Its purpose is to benchmark the price of... -
A behavioural economic analysis of reproductive health in Burkina Faso and Ta...
Sexual and reproductive health rights have gained importance over the last three decades. Despite the growing availability of reproductive health services, the uptake of these...