Data Library
Publicly available data we've produced and replication code
As part of our research studies, we put out publicly available datasets that can be used by other researchers and practitioners to support their own work. These datasets allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood, college, parental income level, and racial background. You can search for datasets by geographic level (e.g., Census tracts), by topic (e.g., education), or by the title of the paper. Need technical assistance with these data? Contact us at [email protected]
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- A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples
- A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
- Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood
- Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
- Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors
- Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates Who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard
- How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
- Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States
- Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
- Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
- Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
- Real-Time Economics: A New Platform to Track the Impacts of COVID-19 on People, Businesses, and Communities Using Private Sector Data
- The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
- The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
- The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940
- The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects
- The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates
- The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
- The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
- Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
- Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
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Example Code and Implementation Guide |
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Replication Package |
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Household Income and Incarceration for Children from Low-Income Households by Census Tract, Race, and Gender |
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Household Income and Incarceration for Children from Low-Income Households by County, Race, and Gender |
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Household Income and Incarceration for Children from Low-Income Households by Commuting Zone, Race, and Gender |
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All Outcomes by Census Tract, Race, Gender and Parental Income Percentile |
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All Outcomes by County, Race, Gender and Parental Income Percentile |
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All Outcomes by Commuting Zone, Race, Gender and Parental Income Percentile |
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All Outcomes at the National Level by Race, Gender and Parental Income Percentile |
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Crosswalk Between Income/Wage Percentiles and 2015 Dollars |
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Neighborhood Characteristics by Census Tract |
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Neighborhood Characteristics by County |
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Neighborhood Characteristics by Commuting Zone |
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National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race |
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National Child and Parent Income Transition Matrices by Race and Gender |
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National Child and Parent Income Transition Matrices by Race and Gender for Children with Mothers Born in the U.S. |
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Commuting Zone Income Rank Statistics by Race and Parent Income Percentile |
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Race and Economic Opportunity: Crosswalk Between Parent and Child Income Percentiles and Dollar Values |
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Parametric Estimates of Income Ranks for Second Generation Immigrant Children by Parent Income, Country of Origin, and Gender |
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Non-Parametric Estimates of Income Ranks for Second Generation Immigrant Children by Parent Income, Country of Origin, and Gender |
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Intergenerational Transition Matrices of Educational Attainment by Race and Gender |
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Mobility Report Cards: Preferred Estimates of Access and Mobility Rates by College |
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Baseline Cross-Sectional Estimates of Child and Parent Income Distributions by College |
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Baseline Longitudinal Estimates of Child and Parent Income Distributions by College and Child's Cohort |
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Cross-Sectional Estimates of Child and Parent Income by College and Gender Using Alternative College Attendance and Income Definitions |
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Longitudinal Estimates of Child and Parent Income by College and Gender Using Alternative College Attendance and Income Definitions |
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Cross-Sectional Child Income Statistics by College Tier and Parent Income Percentile |
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Cross-Sectional Statistics on Children’s Income Distributions by College Tier |
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Longitudinal Statistics on Children’s Income Distributions by College Tier, Parent Income Ventile, and Cohort |
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Percentile Cutoffs in 2015 Dollars for Parent and Child Income by Birth Cohort |
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College Level Characteristics from the IPEDS Database and the College Scorecard |
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Crosswalk from the Department of Education's College-Level OPEIDs to Super-OPEID Groups used in the Mobility Report Cards |
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Parent Income Distribution by State and Birth Cohort |
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Parent Income Distribution by Commuting Zone and Birth Cohort |
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Normed Parent Income and Mobility Rate Estimates |
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Replication Code and Datasets for Figures and Tables in Mobility Report Cards |
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Inventors in America: Commuting Zone Innovation Rates by Childhood Commuting Zone, Gender, and Parent Income |
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Origins of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Childhood State, Gender, and Parent Income |
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Careers of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Current Commuting Zone, Gender, Year of Birth, and Age |
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Careers of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Current State, Gender, Year of Birth, and Age |
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Innovation Rates by College |
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Income Distributions of Inventors by Year and Age |
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Income Distributions of Highly-Cited Inventors by Age |
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Inventors in America: All datasets |
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Replication Code and Datasets |
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Neighborhoods: Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by Commuting Zone |
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Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by County |
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Commuting-Zone-Level Causal Place Effects and Covariates |
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County-Level Causal Place Effects and Covariates |
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Pairwise Place Effects by Origin-Destination Pairs of Commuting Zones |
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Parent Income Distribution by Child's Birth Cohort |
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Neighborhoods: Replication Code and Datasets |
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Neighborhoods: Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by Commuting Zone |
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Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by County |
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Commuting-Zone-Level Causal Place Effects and Covariates |
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County-Level Causal Place Effects and Covariates |
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Pairwise Place Effects by Origin-Destination Pairs of Commuting Zones |
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Parent Income Distribution by Child's Birth Cohort |
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Neighborhoods: Replication Code and Datasets |
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Fading American Dream: Baseline Estimates of Absolute Mobility by Parent Income Percentile and Child Birth Cohort |
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Absolute Income Mobility by Child Birth Cohort and State |
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Absolute Income Mobility by Child Birth Cohort, Parent Income Percentile, and Gender |
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Alternative Estimates of Absolute Income Mobility by Birth Cohort |
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Counterfactual Income Mobility by Parent Income Percentile |
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Levels of Child and Parent Income in 2014 Dollars by Income Percentile and Child Birth Cohort |
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Rank in Child Income Distribution Required to Beat Parent by Child Birth Cohort and Parent Income Percentile |
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Percentile-by-percentile Joint Distribution of Parent and Child Income by Birth Cohorts 1980-1982 |
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Replication Code and Datasets for Figures and Tables in The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 |
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New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment: Replication Code |
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Income and Life Expectancy: National Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Percentile |
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Life Expectancy Estimates by Year, Gender, and Income Percentile |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Percentile |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Quartile |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Year, Gender, and Income Quartile |
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Commuting Zone Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Quartile |
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Commuting Zone Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Ventile |
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Commuting Zone Life Expectancy Trends Estimates by Gender and Income Quartile |
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Commuting Zone Life Expectancy Estimates by Year, Gender, and Income Quartile |
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Commuting Zone Characteristics (Described in eTable 9) |
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County Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Quartile |
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County Characteristics (Described in eTable 9) |
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International Mean Life Expectancy at Age 40 by Country and Gender |
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National Population and Death Counts in Tax Data and NCHS Data by Gender, Age, and Year |
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National Mortality Rates by Gender, Age, Year, and Income Percentile |
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National Mortality Rates by Gender, Age, Year, and Individual Income Percentile |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Complete Set of Formatted Data Tables with Codebook |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Complete Set of Unformatted Data Tables |
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Life Expectancy Rankings for 100 Most Populated Local Areas |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Commuting Zone Boundaries (1990 Definition) |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Data for Figures, Tables, and Numbers in Text of JAMA Manuscript |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Replication Code and Data |
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Childhood and Gender Gaps: Commuting Zone Employment Rates by Gender and Parent Income Quintile and Other Covariates |
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County Employment Rates by Gender and Parent Income Quintile and Other Covariates |
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National Employment Rates, Earnings, and Other Outcomes by Parent Percentile and Gender |
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Trends in Mobility: Commuting Zone Intergenerational Mobility Estimates by Birth Cohort |
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Trends in Mobility: Estimates Underlying Figures in Paper |
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Trends in Mobility: County Intergenerational Mobility Estimates by Birth Cohort |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Preferred Measures of Intergenerational Mobility |
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Geography of Mobility: National 100 by 100 Transition Matrix |
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Geography of Mobility: National Marginal Income Distributions by Centile |
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Geography of Mobility: County Intergenerational Mobility Statistics and Selected Covariates |
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Geography of Mobility: Metropolitan Statistical Area Intergenerational Mobility Statistics |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Intergenerational Mobility Statistics |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Quintile-Quintile Transition Matrices |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Income Distributions |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Characteristics |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone Characteristics - Definitions and Data Sources |
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Geography of Mobility: National Mobility Statistics by Parent or Child Income Percentile |
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Geography of Mobility: Replication Code and Datasets |
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Geography of Mobility: Commuting Zone High-Resolution Map of Upward Mobility Rates |
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Replication Code |
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Replication Code |
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