The QuantGov team has created numerous products based around State RegData data. Explore all of those products, including visualizations, data, suggested API calls, etc. on this page.

The QuantGov platform has allowed the Mercatus Center to create unique data-driven snapshots about nearly every state’s regulatory code. Check out your state’s snapshot here and how it compares to the snapshot of neighboring states.

Using past and current iterations of RegData, the QuantGov platform is able to extract unique information about the regulatory environment of different industries. Explore analysis and visualizations of these results.

Regulatory reform was an important campaign promise of President Trump. This report explores the regulatory state of the US after President Trump’s first year.

The healthcare industry is one of the largest industries in the United States. With the recent release of Healthcare RegData 1.0, researchers can start to analyze the regulations surrounding this industry.

Occupational licensing exists for a wide range of professions. Using the QuantGov platform and a custom algorithm, the QuantGov team recently quantified licensing regulations at the state level.

Regulations that favor incumbent producers, consumers, and the best-off are typically referred to as regulations that result in increased inequality.

How should a state approach regulatory reform? What is regulatory budgeting? What are the regressive effects of over-regulation? What are the costs of regulatory accumulation? Find answers to these questions and many others in our policy briefs.

The current administration imposed tariffs under both Section 301(B) of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Using the datasets for both Section 301 and Section 232, we created these charts and interactives that can be found on this page.

This page contains a brief history of the RegData project and all of its previous versions.

In the hopes of facilitating a better understanding of how each state’s existing regulatory procedures for quarantines may play a role in its COVID-19 response, we have compiled a table with links to state quarantine regulations.

Policy analytics is the use of advanced analytical methods to identify and measure latent variables within policy text. In simpler terms, it is the measurement of government policy for the purpose of studying its causes and consequences.

Regulatory accumulation—that is, the build-up of regulations over time—remains a pressing policy issue despite broad recognition of the problems it creates.

RegData Australia extends the logic of the RegData US project to Canada, quantifying both federal and provincial Canadian regulations.

RegData Australia extends the logic of the RegData US project to the Australia, quantifying both federal and provincial Australian regulations.

Occupation RegData is designed around the popular Standard Occupation Classification system published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics - connecting individual regulations with occupations.

The “lame duck” period between the presidential election in November and inauguration in January commonly often produces a major spike in the number of rulemakings being pushed through the regulatory process. Rules made in this period have been dubbed “midnight regulations”.

Federal regulations impact states differently based on the mixture of industries in each states' economy. The FRASE Index measures this impact for each state and the Disctrict of Columbia.

The CrimLaw project was developed to quantify the number of statutes within the U.S. Code that create one or more federal crimes.