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This study examines the impact of access to confidential administrative data on the rate, direction, and policy relevance of economics research. To study this question, we exploit the progressive geographic expansion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs)....
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and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to … administrative tax and program data. Of the 3.6 million non-homeless households with survey-reported cash income below $2/person …
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nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and …
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prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. We …-Maximization (EM) algorithm, a standard tool in statistics, to compute the probability that each two observations correspond to the …
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Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...
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statistics from surveys with non-response, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics seasonally adjusts employment statistics … statistics as point estimates, without accompanying measures of error. Users of the statistics may incorrectly view them as error … statistics by communicating uncertainty to the public. Sampling error can be measured using established statistical principles …
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well as realized inflation. We survey the recent literature with a focus on the inflation expectations of households. We …
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Globalisation presents significant statistical challenges, particularly for small and open economies in terms of measuring macroeconomic level and growth indicators and communicating the results in a meaningful way. In the aftermath of the so-called "Irish case", Eurostat with its partners in...
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This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better
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This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US Civil War. The sample contains extensive...
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