Microdata (statistics)
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations Open
Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010 period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably during this time. By 2010, conventional huma…
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Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects Open
Social networks can shape many aspects of social and economic activity: migration and trade, job-seeking, innovation, consumer preferences and sentiment, public health, social mobility, and more. In turn, social networks themselves are ass…
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth Open
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innova…
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The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Open
Hotter years are associated with lower economic output in developing countries. We show that the effect of temperature on labor is an important part of the explanation. Using microdata from selected firms in India, we estimate reduced work…
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Rural Roads and Local Economic Development Open
Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved road networks. We estimate the impacts of India’s $40 billion national rural road construction program using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design a…
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Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production Open
Smallholder farming is the most prevalent form of agriculture in the world, supports many of the planet’s most vulnerable populations, and coexists with some of its most diverse and threatened landscapes. However, there is little informati…
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<b>synthpop</b>: Bespoke Creation of Synthetic Data in <i>R</i> Open
In many contexts, confidentiality constraints severely restrict access to unique and valuable microdata. Synthetic data which mimic the original observed data and preserve the relationships between variables but do not contain any disclosi…
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Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China Open
This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, w…
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Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis Open
Research Council of Norway, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation-Boston University Commission on Social Determinants, Data, and Decision Making (3-D Commission).
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Spread Is a Global Threat Open
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a challenge to human wellbeing the world over and is one of the more serious public health concerns. AMR has the potential to emerge as a serious healthcare threat if left unchecked, and could put into mot…
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Economic impact of refugees Open
Significance The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the quest…
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Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target? Open
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of financial intermediation and the economic effects of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a large and novel small business support program that was part of the initial policy response to …
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Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies Open
This paper studies how people across the world perceive and understand climate change and climate policies, which factors determine their support for climate action, and what type of information shifts their policy views.We design and run …
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New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment Open
We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across industries, firms, establishments and regions. These data provide support for both trade- and technology-based explanatio…
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Population with Long-Term Care Needs in Six Latin American Countries: Estimation of Older Adults Who Need Help Performing ADLs Open
The population in Latin America is ageing, and there is an inevitable demand for long-term care services. However, there are no comparative analyses between Latin American countries of the dependency situation of older adults. This study a…
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Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application Open
In an era where external data and computational capabilities far exceed statistical agencies’ own resources and capabilities, they face the renewed challenge of protecting the confidentiality of underlying microdata when publishing statist…
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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production* Open
The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with …
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata Open
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures.Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since th…
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Remote Work and Employment Dynamics under COVID-19: Evidence from Canada Open
In this study, we find that 41 percent of jobs in Canada can be performed remotely, with significant variation across provinces, cities, and industries. We complement this finding with labour microdata and document facts on the relationshi…
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Promotions and the Peter Principle* Open
The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in their current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 131 firms, we find ev…
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Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession Open
Using a quantitative heterogeneous agents macro-housing model and detailed microdata, this paper studies the drivers of the 2006–2011 housing bust, its spillovers to consumption and the credit market, and the ability of mortgage rate inter…
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The Covid-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic Open
We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Although fertility rates declined in 2020,…
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Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth Open
This paper provides new evidence on the interaction between patient information and physician financial incentives. Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with that of comparable n…
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Talent in distressed firms Open
Funding Information: Ramin P. Baghai is with the Stockholm School of Economics. Rui C. Silva is with the Nova School of Business and Economics. Viktor Thell is with Finansinspektionen (Sweden's financial supervisory authority). Vikrant Vig…
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Automation, workers’ skills and job satisfaction Open
When industrial robots are adopted by firms in a local labor market, some workers are displaced and become unemployed. Other workers that are not directly affected by automation may however fear that these new technologies might replace th…
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The Nature of Firm Growth Open
About one-half of all startups fail within five years, and those that survive grow at vastly different speeds. Using Census microdata, we estimate that most of these differences are determined by ex ante heterogeneity rather than persisten…
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Monetary policy and bank lending in developing countries: Loan applications, rates, and real effects Open
Recent studies of monetary policy in developing countries document a weak bank lending channel based on aggregate data. In this paper, we bring new evidence using Uganda's supervisory credit register, with microdata on loan applications, v…
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Measuring Income Tax Evasion Using Bank Credit: Evidence from Greece * Open
We document that in semiformal economies, banks lend to tax-evading individuals based on the bank’s assessment of the individual’s true income. This observation leads to a novel approach to estimate tax evasion. We use microdata on househo…
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An Assessment of the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) Database Open
The National Establishment Time Series (NETS) is a private sector source of U.S. business microdata. Researchers have used state-specific NETS extracts for many years, but relatively little is known about the accuracy and representativenes…
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The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence Open
Competitive elections are essential to establishing the political legitimacy of democratizing regimes. We argue that insurgents undermine the state’s mandate through electoral violence. We study insurgent violence during elections using ne…