Datasets

- Multi-country Surveys -

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

Main topics: health, fertility, mortality

 

Living Standards Measurement

Main topics: multi-purpose household survey data

 

World Fertility Surveys

Main topic: fertility

 

Centre for the Study of African Economies

Main topic: firm level data

 

The International Food Policy Research Institute

Main topic: data on agriculture

 

FAOStat database

Main topic: data on agriculture

 

World Value Survey (WVS)

Main topic: attitudes, beliefs and behavior patterns

 

European Social Survey (ESS)

Main topics: attitudes, beliefs and behavior

 

SABE (Salud Bienestar Y Envejecimiento en America Latina y El Caribe)

Main topics: health and aging in Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay

 

The Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database

Main topic: relationships and synergies of on-farm and off-farm income generating activities for rural households

 

- Individual Country Surveys -

China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

Main topic: retirement

 

India Agriculture and Climate Data Set

Main topics: district level data on agriculture and climate

 

Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS)

Main topics:  employment, marriage, fertility and migration, consumption, assets, self-reported health status and health measures (including anthropometrics, hemoglobin, blood pressure, lung capacity and time to stand from a sitting position)

 

Malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLS)

Main topics:  employment, marriage, fertility and migration

 

Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS)

Main topics:  consumption, income, wealth, employment, marriage and fertility, crime and victimization and migration histories, self-reported health status and a battery of health measures and dry blood spots

 

Mexican Health and Aging Study

Main topic:  longitudinal survey of older adults

 

South African National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS)

Main topics: income, consumption and expenditure of households, determinants of changes in poverty and well-being; household composition and structure; fertility and mortality; migrancy and migrant strategies; labor market participation and economic activity; human capital formation, health and education; vulnerability and social capital

 

- Datasets of Randomized Control Trials -

Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

American Economic Association Registry of RCT