Please click on the links below to access the datasets and program files used in a number of my papers. The links are ordered according to date of publication.
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.
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.
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.
Census/ACS
Cleaners: Census cleaners
Cleaned .dta files: 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2008
Cleaners: May ORG cleaners
Cleaned .dta files (all years):
1973 1979 1985 1991 1997 2003 2009
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
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
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
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)
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)
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