Hello world 🌏! Are you an economist, or economics student, or just a random person like me who is interested in economics? Do you want to write a paper, a thesis, or just ramble on some stuffs but don't have any fresh ideas on what should be the topic? Worry no more! Because, this repository is for you!
Since this repository uses cron job from GitHub Actions to update the data, consequently the .git directory will eat up disk space. Hence, it is not advisable to clone this repository to your local machine. If you are interested to do something similar, just download this repository as a zipped file. You can do the following:
# download repository from main branch
wget https://github.com/ledwindra/nber/archive/main.zipThis won't include the .git directory and you can play around with the programs and data inside your local machine.
If you don't want to run this locally and just want to get straight to the data, just chill, relax and, download them Enjoy! 🌞 ⛱ 🥥 🌴 😎.
| column_name | data_type | description |
|---|---|---|
| id | integer | NBER working paper ID |
| citation_title | string | Paper title |
| citation_author | string | Paper author(s). Can be more than one. Hence it is stored as an array |
| citation_publication_date | date | Date of paper being published |
| issue_date | date | Paper's issuance date |
| revision_date | date | Paper's revision date |
| topics | string | Paper topic(s). Can be more tan one. Hence it is stored as an array |
| program | string | Paper program(s). Can be more tan one. Hence it is stored as an array |
| projects | string | Paper project(s). Can be more tan one. Hence it is stored as an array |
| working_groups | string | Paper working group(s). Can be more tan one. Hence it is stored as an array |
| abstract | string | string |
| acknowledgement | string | Paper's acknowledgement (in paragraph) |
| column_name | data_type | description |
|---|---|---|
| id | integer | NBER working paper ID |
| cites | integer | Total cites for each paper |
| cited_by | integer | Numbers of times each paper being cited by other researchers |
| reference | string | A list of references for each paper |
Columns are not fixed because each economist may have different completeness of information.
What can be done from this dataset? Well, let's take a look at index.ipynb. 📙
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NBER Check its robots.txt. Everybody is not disallowed to get
/papers/tag. -
RePEc Coming from its open API: http://citec.repec.org/api.html
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Wikipedia Check robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Allow: /w/api.php?action=mobileview&
Allow: /w/load.php?
Allow: /api/rest_v1/?doc
Disallow: /w/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /trap/
Disallow: /wiki/Special:
Disallow: /wiki/Spezial:
Disallow: /wiki/Spesial:
Disallow: /wiki/Special%3A
Disallow: /wiki/Spezial%3A
Disallow: /wiki/Spesial%3A
We're using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ so it's safe.
If you have read up to this line, thank you for bearing with me. Hope this is useful for your purpose! 😎 🍻