More Data Than You Can Count on Your Fingers!

Social scientists -- including folks doing empirical studies of legal institutions -- gather data and write articles about what they found. But how can anyone else work with the raw data? The investigators can now share it online, courtesy of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, in its IQSS Dataverse Network.

In this collection, you can find background data for studies such as:

• Andy J. Rottman; Christopher J. Fariss; Steven C. Poe, 2009, "The Path to Asylum in the US and the Determinants for Who gets in and Why"


• LoPucki, Lynn M.; Whitford, William C., 1998-12-10, "Patterns in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies, 1979-1988: [United States]"


• Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo, 2006, "Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry"


• Hannaford-Agor, Paula L.; Hans, Valerie P.; Mott, Nicole L.; Munsterman, G. Thomas, 2003-10-30, "Evaluation of Hung Juries in Bronx County, New York, Los Angeles County, California, Maricopa County, Arizona, and Washington, DC, 2000-2001"

See this post by Carolyn Shapiro at the Empirical Legal Studies Blog.