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

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Data Sets and Code

• Data and code from the paper ``A Network Formation Model Based on Subgraphs''

  Data and code from the paper, ``A Network Formation Model Based on Subgraphs,'' by Arun Chandrasekhar, Matthew O. Jackson, forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies:
  • A zip file of the replication package.
  
  

• Data and code from the paper ``Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Immunization''

  Data and code from the paper, ``Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Immunization,'' Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Suresh Dalpath, Esther Duflo, John Floretta, Matthew O. Jackson, Harini Kannan, Francine Loza, Anirudh Sankar, Anna Schrimpf, Maheshwor Shrestha, forthcoming Econometrica:
  • A zip file of the replication package.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• Data and replication files for ``Negotiations with Multidimensional Uncertainty and the Efficiency of Integrated Deals,''

  This is the replication package from the Jackson, Sonnenschein, Xing, Tombazos and Al-Ubaydli, paper: ``Negotiations with Multidimensional Uncertainty and the Efficiency of Integrated Deals,'' in the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.
  • A zip file of the data and replication package and also here.
  
  

• 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.