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Economics

Begin your research with resources recommended by the economics subject librarian, John Cocklin (john.cocklin@dartmouth.edu). Here you will find the key databases, indexes, datasets, and reference works in economics.

Possible resources for pricing datasets.

NOTE: Dartmouth Library does not subscribe to any database with price microdata for products or services.

kaggle datasets
Open datasets available to explore, analyze and share.
GitHub
Explore the files and codes from projects that have pulled together pricing data, sometimes by scraping that data using Python or R.
Harvard Dataverse
A repository for storing and sharing data. Search for datasets with price data.
Statista
NOTE: Make sure it says "Welcome Dartmouth College Library" at the top of the web site, Dartmouth does have the premium subscription. Statista is a source for statistics, forecasts, and studies. It will not have the large datasets required for an upper level econometrics class, but it can be used to find possible sources for that type of price microdata.
Econ Getting Started
Use the indexes listed here for economic journal articles and working papers to find pricing research that may be of interest to you and that includes information about where and how the data was obtained.