New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer … geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data … with exogenous shocks to people or place. We describe a number of new urban data sources and illustrate how they can be …

In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research …, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in … entrepreneurship research. Linked employer-employee data provides a unique perspective on new business creation by combining …

level historical data, the decline in costs of digitizing data, and the use of computationally intensive methods to convert … large-scale qualitative information into quantitative data might transform economic history in the future …

In recent years, the increased use of “big data” and statistical techniques to score potential transactions has … to the specific context in which they are applied. We demonstrate this point empirically using rich data from the …