Mike Denly

Mike Denly

Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, focusing on external validity and the political economy of development—especially, corruption, foreign aid, and natural resources. Avid soccer and tennis player.

The Global Resources Dataset

Joint work with Mike Findley, Joelean Hall, Andy Stravers, and Jim Walsh.

  • Recipient of the American Political Science Association Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award Honorable Mention, recognizing a publicly-available dataset that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

The Global Resources Dataset (GRD) is the world's largest time-varying, spatial natural resources dataset. The current version of the GRD covers 197 resources and in 116 countries. All 77,000 observations have latitude and longitude coordinates, and most observations contain resource output information as well as price/value details from multiple sources. Below, you can find links to download the data, the codebook, and the article in the Journal of Conflict Resolution introducing the GRD. Feel free to reach out with questions. [Dataset] [Codebook] [Journal Article]

The Global Resources Dataset