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Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of … system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information dissemination technologies. We find that the EDGAR implementation leads to …
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led to differential impacts of these policies on students born in different states. A data panel assembled for the project ….S. Department of Education and the Engineering Manpower Commission), merged to current labor force data. These data facilitate …
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Does academic economic research produce material of scientific value, or are academic economists writing only for clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of...
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Might firms' use of data create market power? To explore this hypothesis, we craft a model in which economies of scale … in data induce a data-rich firm to invest in producing at a lower marginal cost and larger scale. However, the model … uncovers much richer interactions between data, welfare and market power. Data affects risk, firm size and the composition of …
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the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This type of data combination problem arises …
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research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental …
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suggest augmenting the univariate adjustments with a panel data step that pools information across counties. Machine learning …This paper analyzes weekly scanner data collected for 108 groups at the county level between 2006 and 2014. The data … cooking away from non-essential goods. The adjusted data also reveal changes in spending to unanticipated shocks at the local …
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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 …
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Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from millions of smartphone users, we …. We shed light on the mechanism for these results and discuss how geospatial data can be an effective tool to both measure …
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Cross-sectional or panel studies have joined time series techniques as an important element in empirical macroeconomists' toolkit. The econometric best practices for these studies and their aggregate implications remain active topics of research. In this paper, I offer several pieces of advice...
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