NBER Working Papers and Chapters Metadata

The files in the following directory include dumps from the NBER's canonical database for tracking Working Papers and Chapters, with some private information redacted.

Database dumps are in tab-delimited format (*.tab) and CSV format (*.csv.gz). CSV format actually uses different characters as the comma and quote characters, hex characters BF and AC.

The working_papers table is the main table, with one row per paper. Chapters in NBER books are also listed in that table, with ID numbers with 'c' in front.

Other subordinate tables, like working_papers_authors or working_papers_jels, have multiple rows per paper, often organized by an order_num field. So the row in working_papers_authors with order_num = 0 is the first author, order_num = 1 is the second author, etc.

https://data.nber.org/nber_paper_chapter_metadata/

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