README

This code/data set is from the paper titled
    "Differential retention contributes to racial/ethnic disparity in
      U.S. academia"
    By: Allison K. Shaw, Chiara Accolla, Jeremy M. Chacón, Taryn L.
      Mueller, Maxime Vaugeois, Ya Yang, Nitin Sekar, Daniel E. Stanton

    Submitted to: PLoS ONE

Contact ashaw@umn.edu for assistance.

There are five directories included in this folder, each with a separate detailed README file:

1. "datafiles_census" contains data (.csv) files with US census data.

2. "code_retrievedata" contains the matlab scripts (.m files) to retrieve
  data from separate NSF excel files (not included), and save these
  as .csv files.

3. "datafiles_NSF" contains the created data (.csv) files for the NSF data.

4. "code_runsimulations" contains the matlab scripts (.m files) which load
  the data files, run the model simulations, saves the output as .mat
  files, and plot the results.

5. "datafiles_matlab" contains the matlab simulation (.mat) files.