Health Impacts of Public Pawnshops in Industrializing Tokyo, Ward-Level Historical Data

Replication Data for the article 'Health Impacts of Public Pawnshops in Industrializing Tokyo' includes digitized historical data, Stata code, and documentation. The data are ward-level historical records for Tokyo, containing information on pawnshop lending, infant mortality, fetal death, cause-specific mortality, and socioeconomic controls. Author Tatsuki Inoue deposited the dataset on Harvard Dataverse, with a last update timestamp of 2026-06-09.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between pawnshop lending and infant mortality rates based on ward-level historical data.
• Studying cause-specific mortality patterns in industrializing Tokyo using the included mortality variables.
• Reproducing econometric analyses from the associated research article using the provided Stata code and data.

Strengths

• Dataset is directly linked to a specific, peer-reviewed research article, providing clear context.
• Includes replication materials such as Stata code and documentation, facilitating reproducibility.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, deposited by author Tatsuki Inoue.

Collection Method

Digitized historical records, likely from archival sources.

Time Range

Covers the industrializing period of Tokyo; specific years are not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 15:24:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ward-level data for Tokyo, Japan.