This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and … availability of historical data. However, recent work incorporates data and tools from other fields and sub-fields to fill this gap …. For example, economists are increasingly taking advantage of ethnographic data sets compiled by anthropologists. There is …

We build a two-country general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre …-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can … be transformed into various types of working data (information) to be used by both domestic and foreign producers …

By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter …'s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven years of data from a large global cloud-computing provider. Our … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …

counties. We construct population-based crosswalks for 1790 through 2020, which map county-level data across U.S. censuses, as … well as from counties to congressional districts. Using official census data for congressional districts, we show that … population-based weights outperform area-based ones in terms of similarity to official data …

research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …