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This paper explores the realities of disclosure risks in the current big data landscape, examining implications for individuals, society, and the evolving ethical landscape. One these realities is pervasive use of dark patterns in data collection. Dark patterns are user interfaces crafted to...
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The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …
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readability of privacy policies for a large sample of German firms. Germany has a system of state-level data protection …
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December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee … impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits …, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized …
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Although typically overlooked, many purchase datasets exhibit a high incidence of products with zero sales. We propose a new estimator for the Random-Coefficients Logit demand system for purchase datasets with zero-valued market shares. The identification of the demand parameters is based on a...
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States, which have the primary legal role in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications, have created Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) to try to reduce inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and related harm. Research assessing whether these interventions...
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Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
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In this paper we present and describe a large quarterly frequency, macroeconomic database. The data provided are … publicly available source of macroeconomic "big data" that is updated in real time using the FRED database. We show that …
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Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials. We argue that online experiments can be just as valid - both internally and...
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This paper discusses methods for the harmonization and combination of large-scale patent and trademark datasets with each other and other sources of data. Dictionary- and rule-based approaches to the consolidation of applicant names in patent data are presented and shown to have both benefits...
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