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. 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. Last updated: 1/30/2025.

Insurance, Credit, and Favor Networks

Risk aversion plotted over risk-sharing networks using data from the AMA-CRSP Survey of Risk Coping and Social Networks in Rural Ghana. See "Sharing Covariate Risk in Networks: Theory and Evidence from Ghana."

Information Networks and Social Learning

Networked Markets and Firm Networks

Political Networks and Public Goods Provision

Lab Experiments with Network Data

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.)