Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics

• Office Address:

  Department of Economics, 579 Jane Stanford Way 
  Stanford University, Stanford California 94305-6072, USA
   

• Email: jacksonm ``at'' stanford.edu

BIO   VITAE   BOOKS   PAPERS   COURSES/MOOCS   DATA   BLOGS   MEDIA/LINKS/RELICS

Data Sets and Code

• Data from the papers ``Social Capital in the United States I & II''

  Data and visualizations from the two Chetty, Jackson, Kuchler, Stroebel, et al. papers, ``Social Capital in the United States I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility'' and ``Social Capital in the United States II: Exposure, Friending Bias, and the Determinants of Economic Connectedness'':
  • Visualizations are available here by county, zip code, high school and college.
  • A zipfile with the data, code, and a readme document.
  • A deck of slides with figures.
  • The Meta location for the data.
  
  

• Replication package for ``Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets''

  This is the replication package from the Banerjee, Breza, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, Jackson, Kinnan paper: ``Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets,'' in the Review of Economic Studies.
  • A zip file of the replication package.
  
  

• Replication package for ``Finding the Wise and the Wisdom in a Crowd: Estimating Underlying Qualities of Reviewers and Items''

  This is the replication package from the Carayol and Jackson paper: ``Finding the Wise and the Wisdom in a Crowd: Estimating Underlying Qualities of Reviewers and Items,'' in the Economic Journal.
  • A zip file of the replication package.
  
  

• Replication package for ``Social Interactions and Legislative Activity''

  This is the replication package from the Canen, Jackson, Trebbi paper: ``Social Interactions and Legislative Activity,'' in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
  • A zip file of the replication package.
  
  

• Code from ``Interacting Regional Policies in Containing a Disease''

  This is the code from the Chandrasekhar, Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jackson, Thau paper: ``Interacting Regional Policies in Containing a Disease'' in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A zip file that contains the code as well as a readme file.
  
  

• Data from ``Empathy and Well-Being Correlate with Centrality in Different Social Networks''

  These data are from the Morelli, Ong, Makati, Jackson, and Zaki paper ``Empathy and Well-Being Correlate with Centrality in Different Social Networks ,'' that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • A file that contains the data, descriptions, code, as well as a readme file.
  
  

• Data on Social Networks and Microfinance in Indian Villages

  These data were used in the Jackson, Rodriguez-Barraquer, and Tan paper ``Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange'' with Tomas Rodriguez-Barraquer and Xu Tan, American Economic Review Vol. 102, Iss. 5, 1857--1897, 2012., and were originally collected for the project: Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson ``The Diffusion of Microfinance'' Science 26 July 2013: Vol. 341 no. 6144, DOI: 10.1126/science.1236498
  • A zip file that contains all of the raw data, and various code, as well as a readme file. (Some files are large and may be blocked on some browsers, so try multiple browsers or check your security settings if they fail to download.)
  • The readme file alone.
  • A zip file that another version of the data as well as a readme file and various code and the microfinance participation data (see the Matlab Replication subfolder), associated with the ``Diffusion of Microfinance'' study.
  • The project page for the diffusion of microfinance study.
  • The ``Dataverse'' page for the diffusion of microfinance study - This has the most up-to-date versions of the data, and we will keep updating the files.
  
  

• Data from ``Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade''

  These data were used in the Jackson and Nei paper -->``Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade'' in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A zip file that contains the data, code, as well as a readme file.
  
  

• Data from ``Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab''

  These data were used in the Jackson and Yariv paper ``Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab'' in the American Economic Review
  • A zip file that contains the data, and instructions from the experiments, as well as a readme file.
  
  

• Data from ``Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors''

  These data were used in the Jackson paper ``Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors'' in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • A zip file that contains the data and a readme file.
  
  

• Data and Code from ``Financial Networks and Contagion''

  These data were used in the Elliott, Golub, and Jackson paper ``Financial Networks and Contagion'' in the American Economic Review
  • A zip file that contains the data, and various code, as well as a readme file.
  
  

• Data from ``Culture-dependent strategies in coordination games''

  These data were collected for the Jackson and Xing paper ``Culture-dependent strategies in coordination games,'' in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences July 2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400826111
  • A zip file that contains the data.
  
  

• Data on citations that accompany the paper ``Homophily and Long-Run Integration in Social Networks,''

  In the paper ``Homophily and Long-Run Integration in Social Networks,'' we examined APS citations data. You must apply to the APS to access the data. You can find details at https://publish.aps.org/datasets

  The code for analyzing the data is here: Matlab-codes.zip. The order in which to run the codes is (1) getpapers, (2) getcitations and (3) checkcitations.
  

• The ``Add Health'' Data Set

  A number of my papers have made use of the ``Add Health'' data set, which is a restricted-use set. More information can be found on the project's web site.
  

• The ``Florentine Marriages'' Data Set

  I have referred to these data from Padgett and Ansell's work in my book ``Social and Economic Networks'' among other places. The data are in ``UCINET'' format in the following zipped file.
  

• Data on the citations among economics journals

  In the paper ``Identifying Community Structures from Network Data,'' with Jernej Copic and Alan Kirman, in the B.E. Press Journal of Theoretical Economics Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 30, we examined citations data.
  • Start with the ``Read-Me'' file.
  • The algorithm,
  • The citations data,
  • Some summary statistics of the data,
  • A matrix of sizes.
  
  

• Data and Code for ``Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Socially Generated Networks?''

  Here is a zip file of the data and code associated with the paper ``Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Socially Generated Networks?'' with Brian W. Rogers, American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp 890-915, June 2007.
  Here is a version of the simulation code in R, which was written by Marcos R. Fernandes.
  

• Code for ``The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality,''

  The code for various simulations in the paper ``The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality,'' with Toni Calvo-Armengol, American Economic Review, vol. 94, no. 3, 426-454, June 2004. The code is written in Maple, and you can open it in a line editor, and read it to translate it to another format if you wish.
  

• The ``Correlates of War'' Data

  The ``Correlates of War'' and related data sets.
  

Other Links

• The Facebook Social Connectedness Index Page

  Mike Bailey, Rachel Cao, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Arlene Wong put together an index of network connections at various distances among Facebook users.

• The Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

  Jure Lescovec has built a collection of large network data sets.

• UCINET Data Sets

  Here is a link to a set of ``UCINET'' data sets: UCINET data.

• Pajek Data Sets

  Here is a link to a set of ``Pajek'' data sets: Pajek data.

• The Observatory of Economic Complexity

  Here is a link to some world trade data: The Observatory of Economic Complexity.

• Our World in Data

  A fascinating site with all sorts of data: Our World in Data.