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 Data from new papers will not be published here.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
| Data | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Data | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1a 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
| Data Description | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Data Description | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Data Description | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Data Description | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Table # | Geography | Contents | Aggregation | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National | Life expectancy estimates | Gender-income percentile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 2 | National | Life expectancy estimates | Year-gender-income percentile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 3 | State | Life expectancy estimates | State-gender-income percentile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 4 | National | Life expectancy estimates | State-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 5 | State | Life expectancy estimates | State-year-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 6 | CZ | Life expectancy estimates | CZ-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 7 | CZ | Life expectancy estimates | CZ-gender-income ventile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 8 | CZ | Life expectancy trends estimates | CZ-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 9 | CZ | Life expectancy estimates | CZ-year-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 10 | CZ | Characteristics (described in eTable 9) | CZ | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 11 | County | Life expectancy esitmates | County-gender-income quartile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 12 | County | Characteristics (described in eTable 9) | County | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 13 | International | Mean life expectancy at age 40 | Country-gender | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 14 | National | Population and death counts in tax data and NCHS data | Gender-age-year | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 15 | National | Mortality rates | Gender-age-year-income percentile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| 16 | National | Mortality rates | Gender-age-year-individual income percentile | Stata | CSV | Readme |
| Complete Set of Formatted Data Tables with Codebook | Excel | |||||
| Complete Set of Unformatted Data Tables | Excel | |||||
| Life Expectancy Rankings for 100 Most Populated Local Areas | Excel | |||||
| Commuting Zone Boundaries (1990 Definition) | Shapefile | 1990 County Crosswalk | ||||
| Data for Figures, Tables, and Numbers in Text of JAMA Manuscript | ZIP | |||||
| Replication Code and Data |
Code and Instructions Data Only (ZIP, 1GB) Data and Results (ZIP, 3GB) |
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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
| Data Description | Download |
|---|---|
| Replication Code | ZIP |
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
| Data Description | Download | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Data Table 1 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
| Data Description | Download | |
|---|---|---|
| Preferred Mobility Measures By Commuting Zone | Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 1 National 100 by 100 Transition Matrix |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 2 Marginal Income Distributions by Centile |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 3 Intergenerational Mobility Statistics and Selected Covariates by County |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 4 Intergenerational Mobility Statistics by Metropolitan Statistical Area |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 5 Intergenerational Mobility Statistics by Commuting Zone |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 6 Quintile-Quintile Transition Matrices by Commuting Zone |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 7 Income Distributions by Commuting Zone |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 8 Commuting Zone Characteristics |
Stata | Excel |
| Online Data Table 9 Commuting Zone Characteristics - Definitions and Data Sources |
Excel | |
| Online Data Table 10 National Statistics by Parent or Child Income Percentile |
Excel | |
| Replication Code and Datasets | ZIP | |
| High-Resolution Map of Upward Mobility Rates by CZ | JPG | |
Note: Documentation is provided in the Excel version of each dataset.