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
- Affirmative Action, Mismatch, and Economic Mobility after California’s Proposition 209
- 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
- Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital
- Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
- The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
- The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
- 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
- Top Percent Policies and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity
- 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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Preferred Estimates of Access and Mobility Rates by College |
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Origins of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Childhood State, Gender, and Parent Income |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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Baseline Cross-Sectional Estimates of Child and Parent Income Distributions by College |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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Absolute Income Mobility by Child Birth Cohort and State |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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Baseline Longitudinal Estimates of Child and Parent Income Distributions by College and Child's Cohort |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Percentile |
STATACSVREADME |
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Careers of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Current State, Gender, Year of Birth, and Age |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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Cross-Sectional Estimates of Child and Parent Income by College and Gender Using Alternative College Attendance and Income Definitions |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Gender and Income Quartile |
STATACSVREADME |
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Longitudinal Estimates of Child and Parent Income by College and Gender Using Alternative College Attendance and Income Definitions |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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State Life Expectancy Estimates by Year, Gender, and Income Quartile |
STATACSVREADME |
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Inventors in America: All datasets |
ZIP |
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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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College Level Characteristics from the IPEDS Database and the College Scorecard |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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Parent Income Distribution by State and Birth Cohort |
STATAEXCELREADME |
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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 |
EXCEL |
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Income and Life Expectancy: Commuting Zone Boundaries (1990 Definition) |
SHAPEFILE1990 COUNTY CROSSWALK |
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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 |
CODE AND INSTRUCTIONSDATA ONLY (ZIP 1GB)Derived Results ZIP (2 GB) |