Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by any number of firms … should own data? What restrictions should apply to the use of data? We show that in equilibrium, firms may not adequately …, there may be large social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations …

conditions under which robotics and AI complement or are substituting for labor. Further, firm-level data would also allow for … studies of effects on firms of different sizes, the role of market structure in technology adoption, the impact on …-level data could be collected and used by academics, policymakers and other researchers …

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 …

We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of ten categories of … assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data first presented in Martin Schindler (2009), and … dataset includes additional asset categories, more countries, and a longer time period. We discuss the manner in which we …

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 …

The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the … comprehensive analysis of the types of historical data most commonly used in economic research and discuss a variety of issues that …

Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from hundreds of thousands of smartphone …. We shed light on the mechanism for these results and discuss how geospatial data can be an effective tool to both measure …

This paper analyzes weekly scanner data collected for 108 groups at the county level between 2006 and 2014. The data … suggest augmenting the univariate adjustments with a panel data step that pools information across counties. Machine learning … cooking away from non-essential goods. The adjusted data also reveal changes in spending to unanticipated shocks at the local …