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Guns, Privacy, and Crime
Acquisti, Alessandro; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Random-Coefficients Logit Demand Estimation with Zero-Valued Market Shares
Dubé, Jean-Pierre H. - 2020
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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The Problem of Data Quality in Analyses of Opioid Regulation : The Case of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Horwitz, Jill - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480600
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The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies
Goldstein, Itay - 2020
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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FRED-QD : A Quarterly Database for Macroeconomic Research
McCracken, Michael - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482052
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The Online Laboratory : Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Horton, John J. - 2010
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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Harmonizing and Combining Large Datasets - An Application to Firm-Level Patent and Accounting Data
Thoma, Grid - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462801
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The CHAT Dataset
Comin, Diego A. - 2009
This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We...
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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465680
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Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products
Gambardella, Alfonso - 2005
of the public knowledge good (science or research software or database) is sub-optimal. Then we demonstrate that if "lead … then applied to the specific setting where the knowledge being produced is software or a database that will be used by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467565