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New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and...
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A key challenge for research on many questions in the social sciences is that it is difficult to link historical records in a way that allows investigators to observe people at different points in their life or across generations. In this paper, we develop a new approach that relies on millions...
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The last 40 years have seen huge innovations in computing technology and data availability. Data derived from millions of administrative records or by using (as we do) new methods of data generation such as text mining are now common. New data often requires new methods, which in turn can...
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We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life … scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each …/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH …
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There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …
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smaller sample is that projects that involve software developed in a corporate setting are likely to have more restrictive …
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software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the …
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Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other … types of inefficiencies and different biases in R&D investment. Open source style of software development remedies a defect …
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open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze … size of The Commons related to a software market increase the rate of entry in the market by start-ups using a new product …
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A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly considered the collaboration networks formed by inventors as a mechanism for shaping and...
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