Data Archive
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
Daron Acemoglu, Nicolás Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Martin Fiszbein and Carlos Molina
The Review of Economic Studies. Forthcoming.
Obedience in the Labour Market and Social Mobility: A Socioeconomic Approach
Daron Acemoglu,
Economica (2022), 98, S2-S37.
Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Daron Acemoglu
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.
Tasks Automation and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
Econometrica, forthcoming.
War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration
Daron Acemoglu, Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca and Gianluca Russo
Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
Demographics and Automatio
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
Unpacking Skill Bias: Automation and New Tasks
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, forthcoming.
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell and Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Labor Economics, April 2022, 40 (S1), S293-S340.
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Daron Acemoglu, Giuseppe De Feo, and Giacomo De Luca
Review of Economic Studies, March 2020, 87(2), 537-581.
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2019, 33(2), 3-30.
The Race Between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Review, June 2018, 108(6), 1488-1542.
Democracy Does Cause Growth
Daron Acemoglu, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo and James A. Robinson
Journal of Political Economy, February 2019, 127(1), 47-100.
Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2017, 117(5), 174-179.
Innovation Network
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2016, 113(41), 1483-11488.
The Value of Connections in Turbulent Times: Evidence from the United States
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Amir Kermani, James Kwak and Todd Mitton
Journal of Financial Economics, August 2016, 121(2), 368-391.
Transition to Clean Technology
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William Kerr
Journal of Political Economy, February 2016, 24(1), 52-104.
Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson and Brendan Price
Journal of Labor Economics 34, January 2016, no. S1 (Part 2), S141-S198.
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2015, 30
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Daron Acemoglu, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, August 2015,105(8), 2364-2409.
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2015, 29(1), 3-28.
Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning and Fink
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy, December 2014, 122(6), 1367-1375.
Instructions: Unzip the attached .zip file. Read the instructions in the readme file. Before executing the dofiles, save all datasets in the same directory. Then change the current directory to this one in the do files. Run the dofiles to replicate the tables.
The dofiles were created using Stata 13 and require the program xtabond2.
Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson and Brendan Price
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2014,104(5), pp. 394-399.
Institutions, Human Capital and Development
Daron Acemoglu, Francisco A. Gallego and James A. Robinson
Annual Reviews of Economics, January 2014, 6, 875–912.
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia
Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and Rafael J. Santos-Villagran
Journal of the European Economic Association, January 2013, Volume 11, 5-44.
Instructions: Unzip the attached .zip file. Read the instructions located in the readme folder and run the dofiles for the replication of each of the tables and figures.
The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
Daron Acemoglu, Vasco M. Carvalho, Asuman Ozdaglar, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Econometrica, September 2012, 80(5), 1977-2016.
Replication Files
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone
Daron Acemoglu, Tristan Reed, and James Robinson
Journal of Political Economy, April 2014, 122(2), 319-368.
Online Appendix
Data Files
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"
(Previous title: Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment)
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson
American Economic Review, October 2012, 102(6), 3077-3110.
Online Appendix
Main Data Set
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long Run Development in Colombia
Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno and James Robinson
Journal of Comparative Economics, August 2012, 40, 534-564.
Replication files
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French RevolutionDaron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson
American Economic Review, December 2011, 101, 3286-3307.
Online appendix
Data Set
Additional dataset for table 5
Replication do-file
Replication files for Stata 10.0 or higher
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek Hassan, and James Robinson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, June 2011 126, 895-946.
Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings [contains color figures: not B&W printer friendly
]Daron Acemoglu and David H. Autor
Handbook of Labor Economics, 2010 Volume 4, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier.
[Optional: Black and white version of paper for non-color printers]
Downloads:
Census/ACS
Cleaners: Census cleaners
Cleaned .dta files: 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2008
Preparation files: Census preparation files
May/ORG
Cleaners: May ORG cleaners
Cleaned .dta files (all years):
1973 1979 1985 1991 1997 2003 2009
Preparation files: May ORG wage preparation files
March CPS
Cleaners: March cleaners
Cleaned .dta files (all years):
1962 1969 1975 1981 1987 1993 1999 2005
1964 1970 1976 1982 1988 1994 2000 2006
1965 1971 1977 1983 1989 1995 2001 2007
1966 1972 1978 1984 1990 1996 2002 2008
1967 1973 1979 1985 1991 1997 2003 2009
1968 1974 1980 1986 1992 1998 2004
Preparation files: Supply, Wages
Additional
Eurostat
Figures
Figure 1 - Composition Adjusted College/High-School Log Weekly Wage Ratio, 1963-2008
Figure 2 - College/High-School Log Relative Supply, 1963-2008
Figure 5a/b - Predicted Log Hourly Wages by Years of Education, Education Quadratic M/F
Figure 6a/b - Predicted Log Hourly Wages by Years of Education, Education Dummies M/F
Figure 9a/b/c - Change in Log Hourly Wages by Percentile Relative to the Median MF/M/F
Figure 10 - Smoothed Changes in Employment by Occupational Skill Percentile 1979-2007
Figure 11 - Change in Employment Shares by Occupation 1993-2006 in 16 European Countries
Figure 12 - Percent Change in Employment by Occupation, 1979-2009
Figure 13a/b/c - Employment Shares by Major Occupation Groups, 1959-2007 MF/M/F
Figure 15 - U.S. and European Union Occupation Percentages, Age 39 or Less
Figure 16a/b - Change in Employment Shares of Young Workers (Age
Figure 20 - Detrended Changes in College/High-School Relative Supply and Relative Wages
Table 2 - Employment and Wages in Ten Broad Occupations, 1959-2007
Table 4 - Education Distribution by Occupation and Gender in 1979 (Census Data)
Table 8 - Regression Models for the College/High-School Log Wage Gap, 1963-2008
Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
Daron Acemoglu and Melissa Dell
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming
Instructions: To download the zipped program files and some of the data files necessary for reproducing the tables in Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries, please click on the links below. Some of the data necessary for reproducing the paper cannot be posted because they are proprietary. For instructions on how to obtain these data and how to use them - along with the data and programs posted here - to reproduce the tables, please see the readme document below. Note that the appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function. Moreover, it may be necessary to change the location of the Arc toolboxes in the python files (under the heading "#Load Required Toolboxes...") to coincide with the location of these toolboxes on your machine.
Software Requirements: Arcgis 9.2 or higher, Python 2.4, Matlab, and Stata 10 or higher (preferrably Statamp, due to the large size of some of the data files)
Readme: Instructions for Reproducing Acemoglu and Dell (2010)
Geospatial Data Construction (Program Files)
When Does Policy Reform Work - The Case of Central Bank Independence
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin, and James A. Robinson
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 351-418.
Instructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in When Does Policy Reform Work?, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 10 or higher
Table 1: OLS Fixed-Effects Regressions of Inflation on Central Bank Independence
Table 8: OLS Fixed-Effects Regressions of Government Expenditure on Central Bank Independence
Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu and Veronica Guerrieri
Journal of Political Economy, June 2008, 116(3), 467-498.
Instructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Tables for Baseline Set of Countries, Financial Sector Included (Program File)
Tables for Baseline Set of Countries, No Financial Sector (Program File)
Tables for the Baseline Set of Countries, U.S. Classification, No Financial Sector (Program File)
Tables for Additional Set of Countries (Program File)
Income and Democracy
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, and Pierre Yared
American Economic Review, June 2008, 98(3), 808-42.
Instructions: To download the data, commands and documentation necessary for reproducing the tables and figures in Income and Democracy, please click on the links below.
Software Requirements: Microsoft Excel and Stata 9 or higher
Data and Commands for reproducing all tables and figures.
Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy December 2007, 115, 925-985.
Below are two sets of program files for reproducing the results in Disease and Development. The first, under the heading "Program Files for Use with Stata 10 or higher," will exactly reproduce the paper's results when used with Stata 10 or higher, but will not reproduce the paper's results when used with Stata 9 or lower. We realized after the paper's publication that the Stata procedure used to calculate standard errors with the xtreg command - used throughout the paper - was changed between Stata 9 and Stata 10. In all version of Stata prior to Stata 10, the commands xtreg and areg estimate identical standard errors, as both correct for the degrees of freedom used in estimating fixed effects. In contrast, in Stata 10 and higher, xtreg does not correct for the degrees of freedom used to estimate fixed effects, while areg corrects for the degrees of freedom used to estimate fixed effects in all versions of Stata. Thus xtreg in Stata 10 and higher produces standard errors somewhat smaller than those produced by areg in all versions of Stata or by xtreg in Stata 9 and lower, and Disease and Development can only be reproduced using Stata 10 or higher. (Tables 8 and 9 also use a small sample correction for the standard errors that is only available in Stata 10 or higher.)
For comparison purposes, the second set of program files below, entitled "For use with any version of Stata", uses areg and will produce identical estimates regardless of which version of Stata is used, as areg always corrects the standard errors for the degrees of freedom used to estimate fixed effects. However, these programs will not reproduce the paper's results since they were estimated with xtreg in Stata 10. For more information about the changes in the xtreg procedure in Stata 10, and about the areg and xtreg commands more generally, please see the Stata manuals.
Software requirements: Stata 10 or higher to reproduce the standard errors in the paper.
Program files for use with Stata 10 or higher
Table 1: Descriptive Statistics (Program File)
Table 7: Falsification Exercise and Reduced Forms: OLS Regressions (Program File)
Main Data (Tables 1-3, 5-6, and 8-10)
Changes 1900-1940 data (Table 7, Panel A)
Changes 1940-1980 Data (Table 7, Panel B)
For use with any version of Stata
Table 1: Descriptive Statistics (Program File)
Table 7: Falsification Exercise and Reduced Forms: OLS Regressions (Program File)
Main Data (Tables 1-3, 5-6, and 8-10), compatible with Stata 9
Stacked Data (Table 4), compatible with Stata 9
Changes 1900-1940 data (Table 7, Panel A), compatible with Stata 9
Changes 1940-1980 Data (Table 7, Panel B), compatible with Stata 9
Unbundling Institutions
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy, October 2005, 113(5), 949-995.
Instructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in Unbundling Institutions, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Table 1: Descriptive Statistics (Program File)
Table 6: Semi-Reduced Forms: Sample of Ex-Colonies
Table 7: Contracting vs. Property Rights Institutions: Alternative Samples
Table 8: Contracting vs. Property Rights Institutions: Other Control Variables
Table 9: Determinants of Contracting and Property Rights Institutions: Sample of Ex-Colonies
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, June 2005, 95(3), 546-579.
Instructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in Atlantic Traders, please click on the links below. To download all data and program files together, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Table 1: Summary Statistics (Program File)
Table 2: Atlantic Trade and Urbanization (Program File)
Table 3: Atlantic Trade and GDP Per Capita (Program File)
Table 4: Robustness Checks (Program File)
Table 5: Growth of Atlantic Ports (Program File)
Table 6: Atlantic Trade and Institutions (Program File)
Table 7: Interaction Between Initial Institutions and Atlantic Trade (Program File)
Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century
David Autor, Daron Acemoglu and David Lyle
Journal of Political Economy, June 2004,112(3).
Downloads (all datasets, do-files, and log files zipped):
List of State Mobilization Rates (excel file)
Table 1. Characteristics of U.S. State Residents in Low-, Medium-, and High-Mobilization Rate States, 1940, 1950, and 1960 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 3. OLS Estimates of Impact f Female Labor Supply on Earnings: 1940-90 at Various Time Intervals (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 4. 1940 State-Level Determinants of WWII Mobilization Rates (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 5. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Labor Supply, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 6. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply, 1940-50, Controlling for the Fraction of Males in Occupations and Industries in 1940 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 7. Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 8. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply, 1940-50, 1950-60, and 1930-40 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 9. Instrumental Variables Specifications: Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female and Male Earnings, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 10. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female/Male Earnings Differential, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 11. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female and Male Full-Time Weekly Earnings, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 12. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Male Education Earnings Differential, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table A1. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply by Age, Education, and Cohort, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Linn
Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2004, 119(3), 1049-1090.
Intructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing Tables 3 and 4 in Market Size and Innovation, please click on the links below. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Table 3: Robustness Checks (Program File)
Table 4: Potential Supply Side and Demand Side Determinants of Innovation
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, and Yunyong Thaicharoen
Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2003, 50, 49-123.
Instructions: To download the zipped data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables and figures in Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software requirements: Stata 9 or higher.
Table 1: Income, growth and institutions (Data and Program)
Table 2: Institutions, macroeconomic policies and outcomes (Data and Program)
Table 3: Volatility and government consumption (Data and Program)
Table 4: Volatility and inflation (Data and Program)
Table 5: Volatility and real exchange rate overvaluation (Data and Program)
Table 6: Worst output performance and the three macroeconomic variables (Data and Program)
Table 7: Growth and the three macroeconomic variables (Data and Program)
Table 8: Institutions and volatility: other controls (Data and Program)
Table 9: Institutions and volatility: other controls and samples (Data and Program)
Table 10: Institutions and economic stability: results by decade (Data and Program)
Table 11: Global shocks and institutions: panel results (Data and Program)
Table 12: Institutions, state failures and volatility (Data and Program)
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2002, 117, 1231-1294.
Instructions: To download the zipped data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables and figures in Reversal of Fortune, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Table 2: Urbanization and Per Capita Income
Table 3: Urbanization in 1500 and GDP per Capita in 1995 for Former European Colonies
Table 4: Alternative Measures of Urbanization
Table 5: Population Density and GDP Per Capita in Former European Colonies
Table 6: Robustness Checks for Urbanization and Log population Density
Table 7: Urbanization, Population Density, and Institutions
Table 8: GDP Per Capita and Institutions
Table 9: The Interaction of UK Industrialization and Institutions
The World Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu and Jaume Ventura
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002, 117, 659-694.
Instructions: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in The World Income Distribution, please click on the links below. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 4 or higher
Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2002, 40, 7-72.
Instructions: The program files and data file below can be used to to reproduce Figures 1 and 5 in Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market. These are the principal empirical figures in this paper. Please do not remove the Stata version command at the top of the program files, as the commands used to create the paper's figures will not run in more recent versions of Stata. Please also note that the directory paths at the top of the program files must be changed appropriately in order for them to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 4 or higher.
Figure 1: Relative Supply of College Skills and College Premium (Program File)
Figure 5: Alternative Time Trends for the Relative Demand for Skills (Program File)
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, December 2001, 91, 1369-1401.
Instructions: To download the zipped data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables and figures in The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, please click on the links below. To download all the program and data files at once, please click here. The appropriate directory path must be inserted at the top of each program file in order for it to function.
Software Requirements: Stata 9 or higher
Table 1: Summary Statistics (Program and Data Files)
Table 2: OLS Regressions (Program and Data Files)
Table 3: Determinants of Institutions (Program and Data Files)
Table 4: IV Regressions of Log GDP per Capita (Data and Program Files)
Table 5: IV Regressions of Log GDP per Capita with Additional Controls (Data and Program Files)
Table 6: Robustness Checks for IV Regressions with Log GDP Per Capita (Data and Program Files)
Table 7: Geography and Health Variables (Data and Program Files)
Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist
Journal of Political Economy, October 2001,109, 915-957.
Notes: To download the data and program files necessary for reproducing the tables in Consequences of Employment Protection, please click on the links below. To download all data and program files together, please click here.
Software Requirements: SAS
Table 3: Baseline and Alternative Estimates Note that the replicated coefficients differ slightly from the published values. This is likely due to the way in which SAS drops dummy variables when the matrix of dummies and a constant is not of full rank. This file also contains a minor correction to the original results, which takes account of small cell sizes.
Table 4: Exploring the Role of SSI/Disability Insurance Benefits
How Large Are Human Capital Externalities Evidence? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2000, 9-59.
Notes: The following programs create the estimates reported in two tables. Estimates other than those in the appendix were constructed similarly using the same data (three.rar). Coding and documentation for compulsory attendance laws are in a separate archive.
Note also that the compulsory attendance (CA) first stage is mislabeled in Tables 4 and 5. The effects reported in the tables are for CA9, CA10, and CA11.
Software Requirements: SAS
Table 5: The Effect of State of Birth Compulsory Schooling Laws on Discrete Levels of Schooling
Table 6: 2SLS Estimates of Private Returns to Schooling
CompSchoolLaws contains data and documentation on compulsory attendance laws by state.
three.rar is the micro data set used by the programs posted above.