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Data on the Web

Data sets associated with Barro's work:

• Cross-Country Panel data: Barro-Lee Data Set for a Panel of 138 Countries is available by contacting Trina Ott.
  
  
• Educational Attainment data: Please contact Trina Ott for further information on  International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality. 
  
  
• Human Capital Data Updates (April 2000): is available from the Center for International Development, Harvard University website Center for International Development.
  
  
• IMF Programs Data (2005): is available in Excel format. The name of variables is in text format.
  
  
• "Macroeconomic Crises since 1870", BPEA, 2008: Online Appendix data is available in Excel format.
  
  
• Religion Adherence Data: available in Excel format by clicking this link.
  
  
• McCleary data on Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs): codebook is available in Excel and the data file in STATA .
  
  
• Summers-Heston data (1995) is now available through the National Bureau of Economic Research, 617-868-3900, Ext. 343, for a $5.00 fee.