Death Penalty Data
Click here to download death penalty from Donohue and Wolfers, as well as other authors.

Unemployment Data

The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment: The Aggregate Evidence
joint with Olivier Blanchard
Published, Economic Journal, March 2000

• Data Appendix (pdf)
• Sample programs (Stata do file)
• Unemployment.dta (Stata 5)
• Unemployment.txt (text file)

Inflation Expectations Data

Disagreement About Inflation Expectations
joint with Greg Mankiw and Ricardo Reis
Published, NBER Macro Annual, 2003

• Inflation Expectations data (Stata 8)
• Comma-delimited text file (with codebook here)

Economic Derivatives Data

Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
Joint with Refet Gürkaynak
Forthcoming, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2005.

• Datasets and codebook (Stata 8 and Excel formats)

Divorce Data

Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates?
A Reconciliation and New Results
Published, American Economic Review, December 2006

• Data Appendix
• Stata 9 Dataset
• Excel Dataset
• Complete Dataset

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law:
Divorce Laws and Family Distress
Joint with Betsey Stevenson
Published, Quarterly Journal of Economics 121(1), February 2006

• Stata 8 Dataset and do files

Prediction Markets and Elections Data

Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
Joint with Erik Snowberg and Eric Zitzewitz
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2(3), July 2007.
NBER Working Paper #12751

• Complete Dataset (Stata 9)

Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Joint with Erik Snowberg and Eric Zitzewitz
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007, 122(2).
NBER Working Paper #12073

• Complete Dataset (Stata 9)

Female CEOs Data

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
Journal of the European Economic Association, May 2006.

• Stata 9 dataset
• Stata program
• Stata program that constructed the above data from various WRDS datasets.

Australian (and cross-national) Happiness Data

Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox
Joint with Andrew Leigh
Australian Economic Review, June 2006.

• Stata 9 datasets, code and figures.

Further questions about these data?  Send email to jwolfers@wharton.upenn.edu