juanr: Data for Teaching

A collection of datasets I use for teaching. Mostly political science + economics + toy data from other data science courses.

Installation

You can install the development version of {juanr} from Github via the {remotes} package.

remotes::install_github("hail2thief/juanr")

Contents

Here’s the data I’ve got in the package so far:

Object Name	Description
affairs	Wooldridge Source: R.C. Fair (1978), “A Theory of Extramarital Affairs,” Journal of Political Economy 86, 45-61, 1978. Data originally from Professor Fair’s web cite at the Yale University Department of Economics. He originally obtained the data from a survey by Psychology Today.
amazon	dataset of Amazon purchases, merged with a survey of the purchasers. I picked a random subset of 2,000 purchasers for this dataset.
art	dataset of auction sales records, including artists’ attributes, and market information.
big_five	Dataset that provides big five personality trait scores for 307,313 people from different countries.
bonica	Candidate level data on money raised, spent, and other stuff during political campaigns, from the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME).
bot	A sample of respondents from the Cooperative Election Survey. Inspired by the Twitter account “American Voter Bot”.
census	This dataset is a transcribed version of the data from Table 35 of the Twelfth Census of the United States, completed in 1900. The data provide information on the foreign born in major metro areas around the US. Data was transcribed by Stacker Media.
childcare	A dataset that provides information on childcare prices and other demographics at the county-year level in the United States. Childcare prices are based on market rate surveys.
climate	Country-year data from “Our World in Data” on CO2 and Greenhouse gas emissions.
colony_long	A dataset linking information on the sale of provincial governorships by the Spanish Crown in Peru during the 17th and 18th century with contemporary development outcomes. The dataset is from Guardado (2018).
colony	A cross-sectional dataset containing information on the sale of provincial governorships by the Spanish Crown in #’ Peru during the 17th and 18th century, as well as province-level demographic and economic data. The dataset is ’ from Guardado (2018).
conflict	State-year level UCDP data focusing on conflict onset.
coups	This dataset from the Cline Center provides information on all known failed and successful coup events for every country in the world.
crime	2018 LAPOP survey of experiences with and exposure to crime in select Latin American countries.
elections	County-level data with electoral results from 2012, 2016, and 2020. Note: some 2020 results based on estimates.
euro_elections	Data on European election results, by political party.
fatal	Data on American soldier fatalities during the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, collected by iCasualties. Note: Data here may not reflect most updated numbers.
fearon	Replication data from the classic Fearon and Laitin (2003) study on the causes of civil wars.
gdp	A country-year panel dataset from varied sources on economic and demographic indicators in Latin America.
ged	A sample of the UCDP GED (version 21.1), information on violent events including casualty estimates.
informal	A panel dataset containing data from World Bank indicators on urbanization and
invasions	Data on land invasions in Brazil, at the municipal level, from Hidalgo et. al (2010).
leader	A sample of the UCDP GED (version 21.1), information on violent events including casualty estimates.
migrant_children	dataset on the placement of 550,000+ unaccompanied migrant children with local sponsors between January 2015 and May 2023.
movies	A sample of movies and their characteristics from IMDB (1910-2016).
parties	Data on the characteristics of European political parties. Note that I excluded parties where the family variable was uncoded.
pokemon	A dataset containing the characteristics of 800+ Pokemon.
prison	Data on the racial composition of prison populations in the US, at the state-month level.
race	Survey data on race and colorism in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala,
rebel_leader	Dataset that provides a wide range of biographical information on all top rebel, insurgent, and terrorist leaders who were active in civil wars between 1980 and 2011.
therm	Feeling thermometer survey data on a variety of social groups in the USA. From from the July 2017 “Views of the Electorate” Research Survey.
trade	State-year level Correlates of War data focusing on international trade, including imports, exports, and IGO membership.
vdem	A dataset from the Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) project that characterizes
vietnam	Replication data from Kalyvas and Kocher (2009) on the characteristics of the Hamlet Evaluation System during the Vietnam War.
wealth	Survey data on income, household assets, and other markers of wealth/poverty in Honduras.