Data and Replication Code

This page provides datasets containing key statistics as well as replication code for each of the papers released from Opportunity Insights (formally the Equality of Opportunity Project) before October 1, 2018. We have maintained our previous URL for researchers who use webuse or other tools to extract data from this website. We ask that researchers transition to using files from our new wesbite, https://opportunityinsights.org/. Data from new papers will not be published here. Documentation is provided in readme files or in the Excel version of each table. Please email info@opportunityinsights.org if you need technical assistance in using these data or programs.

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective

Chetty, Hendren, Jones, and Porter (2018)

Income Statistics by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Parent Income, and Commuting Zone

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National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2

Income Transition Matrices by Race and Gender Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

Income Transition Matrices by Race and Gender, Children with Mothers Born in the U.S. Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4

CZ-Level Statistics by Race and Parent Income Percentile Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 5

Crosswalk Between Income Percentiles and Dollars Stata Excel Readme

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

Bell, Chetty, Jaravel, Petkova, and Van Reenen (2017)

Patent Rates by CZ/State, Parent Income, Gender, Age, and College

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Origins of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Childhood Commuting Zone, Gender, and Parent Income Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 1b

Origins of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Childhood State, Gender, and Parent Income Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2a

Careers of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Current Commuting Zone, Gender, Year of Birth, and Age Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2b

Careers of Inventors: Innovation Rates by Current State, Gender, Year of Birth, and Age Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

Innovation Rates by College Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4a

Income Distributions of Inventors by Year and Age Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4b

Income Distributions of Highly-Cited Inventors by Age Stata Excel Readme All Datasets ZIP

Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

Chetty, Friedman, Saez, Turner, and Yagan (2017)

Mobility Statistics and Student Outcomes by College and Birth Cohort

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Preferred Estimates of Access and Mobility Rates by College Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2

Baseline Cross-Sectional Estimates by College Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

Baseline Longitudinal Estimates by College and Child's Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4

Cross-Sectional Estimates by College: Heterogeneity by Gender and Alternative College and Income Definitions Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 5

Longitudinal Estimates by College and Cohort: Heterogeneity by Gender and Alternative College and Income Definitions Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 6

Cross-Sectional Statistics by College Tier and Parent Income Percentile Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 7

Cross-Sectional Statistics on Children’s Income Distributions by College Tier Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 8

Longitudinal Statistics by College Tier, Parent Income Ventile, and Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 9

Percentile Cutoffs for Parent and Child Income by Birth Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 10

College Level Characteristics Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 11

Crosswalk from College-Level OPEIDs to Super-OPEID Groups Stata Excel Readme Replication Code and Datasets ZIP

The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940

Chetty, Grusky, Hell, Hendren, Manduca, and Narang (2016)

Absolute Mobility Estimates and Counterfactuals by Cohort, Parent Income, and State

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Baseline Estimates of Absolute Mobility by Parent Income Percentile and Child Birth Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2

Absolute Mobility by Child Birth Cohort and State Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

Absolute Mobility by Child Birth Cohort, Parent Income Percentile, and Gender Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4

Alternative Estimates of Absolute Mobility by Birth Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 5

Counterfactuals by Parent Income Percentile Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 6

Levels of Child and Parent Income by Income Percentile and Child Birth Cohort Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 7

Rank Required to Beat Parent by Child Birth Cohort and Parent Income Percentile Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 8

Copula for 1980-82 Birth Cohorts Stata Excel Readme Replication Code and Datasets ZIP

The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility

Chetty and Hendren (2017)

Causal Effects, Mobility Estimates and Covariates by County, CZ, and Birth Cohort

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Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by Commuting Zone Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2

Preferred Estimates of Causal Place Effects by County Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

Complete CZ-Level Dataset: Causal Effects and Covariates Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 4

Complete County-Level Dataset: Causal Effects and Covariates Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 5

Pairwise Place Effects by Origin-Destination Pairs of Commuting Zones Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 6

Parent Income Distribution by Child's Birth Cohort Stata Excel Readme Replication Code and Datasets ZIP Note: Legacy replication code and data for the 2016 working papers can be downloaded here (ZIP).

Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood

Chetty, Hendren, Lin, Majerovitz, and Scuderi (2016)

Employment Rates and Earnings by Gender, Parent Income, and Area

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CZ-level Employment Rates by Gender and Parent Income Quintile and other CZ Covariates Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 2

County-level Employment Rates by Gender and Parent Income Quintile and other County Covariates Stata Excel Readme Online Data Table 3

National Employment Rates, Earnings, and Other Outcomes by Parent Percentile and Gender Stata Excel Readme

The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

Chetty, Stepner, Abraham, Lin, Scuderi, Turner, Bergeron, and Cutler (2016)

Health Statistics by State, County, and Commuting Zone

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I and II: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates and Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014)

Replication Code

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Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, and Turner (2014)

Trends in Intergenerational Mobility by Commuting Zone

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Intergenerational Mobility Estimates by Commuting Zone and Birth Cohort Stata Excel Appendix Tables

Estimates Underlying the Figures in Paper Excel Intergenerational Mobility Estimates by County and Birth Cohort Stata Note: Documentation is provided in the Excel version of each dataset.

Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

Chetty, Hendren, Kline and Saez (2014)

Descriptive Statistics by County and Commuting Zone