Data Set for Policy Paper 009: A Commitment to Vaccination Index
8/15/12
This is the data set underlying Policy Paper 009, “A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization.”
Publications
Data Set for Working Paper 301: Energy+ Country Performance Ratings 2001–2010
7/25/12
This data set provides the data and programs underlying the analysis in Working Paper 301, “Energy+ Country Performance Ratings 2001–2010.”
Data Set for Working Papers 278 and 297, Millennium Development Goals
6/13/12
These two sets include input data and Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 278, “More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved?” and CGD Working Paper 297 “MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?”
Data Set for Policy Paper 004: "Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?"
5/14/12
This data set categorizes 980 nongovernmental and civil-society organizations operating in Haiti and includes information on sector, budget, location, year founded, number of employees, location of headquarters, and type of organization (when available).
Data Set for Working Paper 283: “Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011”
2/8/12
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011 by David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, and Dan Hammer.
Data Set for Working Paper 280: “Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia”
2/8/12
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Working Paper 280, Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia by David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor.
Data Set for Working Paper 282: “From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing”
2/8/12
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Working Paper 282, From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing by David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, and Robin Kraft.
Data Set for Working Paper 287: “An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health”
2/7/12
This data set allows replication of the results in CGD Working Paper 287, An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health.
Data Set for Working Paper 279: “The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country”
12/13/11
This set includes data and Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 279, “The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country”
Data Set for Working Paper 274: "Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices"
12/7/11
This set includes data and Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 274, "Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices"
Data Set for Working Paper 271: "Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?"
10/31/11
This set includes the household survey data, standardized test score data, and the Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 271, "Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?"
Data Tools for “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages”
9/22/11
This data set contains the Stata code needed to replicate the data analysis in “When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages” (CGD Working Paper 225)
"Fair Shares" Data Set
9/13/11
These files accompany CGD Working Paper 259, "Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation." They include the Stata code used to produce the results reported in the paper, the supporting data, and definitions of variable names in the database.
History of U.S. Aid and Reimbursements to Pakistan (Data Set)
6/1/11
An accompaniment to the report Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan, this data set describes budgeted levels of U.S. military and economic assistance to Pakistan for the period from 1948 to 2010.
Dataset: Vulnerability to Climate Change
1/24/11
Senior fellow David Wheeler quantifies and makes available in this dataset the vulnerability of 233 countries to three major effects of climate change (weather-related disasters, sea-level rise, and reduced agricultural productivity).
Cross-Country Data on AIDS Treatment and HIV Prevalence in 2006-07
6/5/09
This dataset compiles selected global variables on AIDS and its treatment and prevention. The data are in the format developed by the Stata statistical software corporation and are intended for use with Over and McCarthy's AIDSCost package for the purpose of projecting the future budgetary cost of scaling up AIDS treatment.
The Fate of Young Democracies
12/10/08
Why do some young democracies fail? Drawing on a unique data set of every democratization episode since 1960, The Fate of Young Democracies explores the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world’s fledgling democracies and offers proposals for ways that the international community can help these states stay on track toward political stability.
New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad
2/26/07
In CGD working paper 95, research fellow Michael Clemens and Gunilla Petterrsson estimate the number of African-born doctors and professional nurses working abroad in a developed countries circa 2000 using destination-country census data. They then compare this to the stocks of these workers in each country of origin. These numbers are the first standardized, systematic, occupation-specific measure of skilled professionals working in developed countries and born in a large number of developing countries. Compilation of the dataset is a part of CGD's ongoing research on the links between international labor mobility and global development.