Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Antioquia Industrialization

This dataset supports replication of research on social networks and elite entrepreneurship during the industrialization of Antioquia, Colombia. It includes data and code for analysis in Stata and R. The author is Javier Mejia, with the work forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History.

Use Cases

• Replicate network analysis of elite entrepreneurship using the provided relational data and code.
• Analyze the industrialization process in Antioquia with the historical economic data.
• Conduct econometric analysis on the relationship between social networks and entrepreneurship using the Stata and R scripts.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a forthcoming publication in the Journal of Economic History, indicating academic rigor.
• Includes replication code in both Stata and R, facilitating reproducibility and extension of the original analysis.

Limitations

• Specific details on data structure, such as row count, column names, and file formats, are unavailable.
• The dataset's scope is geographically limited to the Antioquia region of Colombia.

Provenance

Source

Javier Mejia, harvested by ICPSR from Dataverse.

Collection Method

Archival data compiled for historical economic research.

Time Range

Covers the period of Antioquia's industrialization.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Antioquia region, Colombia.