direction of the bias varies with bandwidth choice and the location of the data heaps relative to the treatment threshold …

counties. We construct population-based crosswalks for 1790 through 2020, which map county-level data across U.S. censuses, as … well as from counties to congressional districts. Using official census data for congressional districts, we show that … population-based weights outperform area-based ones in terms of similarity to official data …

Since the 2000s, economists across fields have increasingly used consumer credit reporting data for research. We … introduce readers to the economics of and the institutional details of these data. Using examples from the literature, we … provide practical guidance on how to use these data to construct economic measures of borrowing, consumption, credit access …

Dynamics and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, we document that the children of richer US parents are more likely to …

participants and their children generate substantial benefits. Access to life-cycle data enables us to evaluate the accuracy of …

data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a variation on a difference-in-differences framework, this study exploits …