Policy datasets
A central component of my research is the development of new data resources that facilitate the systematic study of government policies and political outcomes. This page provides access to the datasets, codebooks, and related documentation produced through these projects for scholars, policymakers, and interested members of the public.
The UN Refugee Agencies Funding (URAF) Dataset
Frowin, R, Bachelet, M. & Lutz, P. (2026)
The UN Refugee Agencies Funding (URAF) dataset offers systematic, cross-national data on financial contributions from all 193 UN member states and the European Union to the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1990 to 2025.
DOI - Data - Codebook - Analysis
Refugee Dispersal Policy (RDP) Data Set
Bartl, W. & Lutz, P. (2025)
This dataset contains coded policy measures of how 32 European countries allocate asylum-seekers across their territory in the year 2020.
DOI - Data - Technical report - Dataset article
Migration Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (MITA) Dataset
Lavenex, S, Lutz, P. & Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, P. (2024)
The MITA dataset is the broadest and most inclusive databases on preferential trade agreements with regard to migration. We include all international trade agreements that were signed between 1960 and 2020 and whose text is publicly available. This includes bilateral, plurilateral and regional agreements. We exclude framework agreements. We do not list accessions and withdrawals to existing agreements as they only constitute a change in the signing parties but not a change in an agreement’s provisions. Accordingly, we include consolidated PTAs that include additional migration provisions to the initial agreement. Signing parties can be countries but also group of countries such as regional and supranational organizations. Beside the main text of an agreement, we also take into account annexes and side-letters that are part of an agreement. To maximize the coverage of the database, we combined various data sources such as the World Trade Organization, the DESTA database (Dür et al., 2014) and websites of governments and intergovernmental organizations. As source data, we consider all text documents that are an integrated part of an agreement, such as the main text, annexes, side letters and additional protocols that were signed together with the main agreement.
DOI - Data - Codebook - Dataset article - Data explorer
RESET-OECD dataset
Lutz, P. & Portmann, L. (2021)
Refugee resettlement has become an important part of international asylum governance. Resettlement is the transfer of refugees from a country of first asylum to another country that has agreed to admit them for humanitarian reasons and grant them permanent residence (UNHCR). The RESET-OECD dataset provides a series of quantitative indicators of the resettlement policies covering OECD countries between 1980 and 2019.
DOI - Data - Codebook - Analysis
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