ALEXANDER KIRSS

Data/Code

Data
I am in the process of building a number of datasets relating to the economic effects of geopolitical risk and interstate conflict. I am happy to provide updates on the status of these data sets via email if you are interested in using them.
  • U-Boat Attacks During World War I and World War II (Incident and Daily Level)
  • Trade Orientation of Pre-World War I U.S. Industries
    • data, from Treasury/Commerce Department
  • Commodity Price Data for Selected World War I era U.S. Industries: Raw Cotton, Cotton Manufacturing, Wheat, Tin
  • Historical Commodity Price Data from the Chicago and Milwaukee Boards of Trade, 1914-1918
  • Scud Attacks during the Gulf War (Incident Level)
    • data, from Department of Defense
  • Annual Iron/Steel Imports, 1905-1920
    • data, from American Iron and Steel Institute
  • Campaign Contribution Data from 1936, 1940, and 1944 Presidential Election Cycles (w/ Sam Schutt)
I also have collated and reshaped a number of previously gathered datasets for my research that may be of interest to other researchers
  • Financial Data Relating to the Persian Gulf and Iraq Wars (mainly from FRED)
  • Daily Casualties and Terrorist Attacks in Iraq, 2003-2011 (IBC and GTD)
  • World War I and II era Commodity Prices and Trade Flows (mainly from NBER)
  • World War II era Stock Prices, 1930-1945 (WRDS)

Code
The hardest part of statistical modeling is often not knowing what you want to do, but knowing how to do it. As such, I have provided links below to a number of coding walkthroughs I've developed for both workshop presentations and my research. 
  • Introduction to Coding in R (w/ Alex Beck) 
    • ​R Code, data as .csv, data as .dta
  • Visualizing Models in R and Stata
    • ​R Code, STATA code, TOGD data, Dow data
  • Introduction to Web Scraping in R
    • ​​R Code
  • Calculating Marginal Effects in Stata
    • Stata code, TOGD data
    • Missile Data is unfortunately too large to post; a similar data set is available here
  • Research Example: Comparing Millennial Opinion on Foreign Policy using the 'contrast' command in Stata
    • Stata code, CCES data
  • Check back for new code as I post more files! 
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