Network Data for Development

Conducting social network surveys in developing countries can be complicated and expensive. Additionally, there is potential to learn from the network data publicly available. In this spirit, this page will be dedicated to listing publicly available network data that might be of interest to development researchers. As I come across further resources, I will add them. Email suggestions/report broken links/etc. to putmands [at] gmail [dot] com. Additionally, where I have re-analyzed datasets for papers I have noted this below.

Information Networks and Social Learning

• Social Networks and Microfinance (Karnataka, India)

• Social Networks and Diffusion of Soil Heath Innovations in Malawi

• Bohol Social Network Survey (Philippines) (original study) 

• Replication Data for: "Treatment and Spillover Effects Under Network Interference" (China) (note: same survey as Replication Data for: Social Networks and the Decision to Insure which features network aggregates only)

• Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

• Data for: Leveling with friends: Social networks and Indian farmers' demand for a technology with heterogeneous benefits (Uttar Pradesh, India) 

• Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghanaian Households: Survey Data

• Data and Code for: Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption? (Malawi)

Networked Markets and Firm Networks

• Replication data for: Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment (Kolkata, India)

• Replication Data for: 'Industrial Policies in Production Networks' (South Korea, China)

• Replication Data for: 'Strategic Default in the International Coffee Market'

• Townsend Thai Project Data 

Political Networks and Public Goods Provision

• Replication Data for: Information Provision, Voter Coordination, and Electoral Accountability: Evidence from Mexican Social Networks

• Replication Data for Social Network Structures and the Politics of Public Goods Provision (Philippines)

• Replication Data for: Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China

Lab Experiments with Network Data

• Supplement to "Testing Models of Social Learning on Networks: Evidence from Two Experiments" (India, Mexico)  - Link directly to download

• Replication data for: Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks (Colombia) 

  • Used in "Social Network Structure and the Radius of Risk Pooling:" 

Dynamic Networks

(This section includes both network panels, i.e., the same network collected in multiple rounds, and also other data with different networks collected in multiple rounds.)

• AMA-CRSP Survey of Risk Coping and Social Networks in Rural Ghana

  • Used in "Sharing Covariate Risk in Networks" 

• Replication data for: Treatment Effect Accounting for Network Change (Nepal)

• Replication Data for The Effect of Promoting Savings on Risk-Sharing: Experimental Evidence from Vulnerable Women in Kenya

Other useful links: 

• Three surveys on networks in developing countries: Community Networks and the Process of Development, Social Networks in Developing Countries, and Networks in Economic Development. 

• Some other network data sources: Network Data by Bryan S. Graham, Stanford Large Network Datasets from Stanford Network Analysis Project, UC Irvine's Network Data Repository, Mark Newman's network data repository

• Some sources from the technical aspects of network econometrics: The Econometrics of Network Data and The Econometrics of Network Formation

• For those at UC Davis, a graduate interdisciplinary course in Network Science: Network Theory and Applications (ECS/MAE 253)

• Three packages for running dyadic regressions as well as other econometric models of network formation: netrics (Python), regdyad2 (Stata), ngreg (Stata)