It is almost a truism to argue that data holds a great promise of transformative resources for social good, by helping … predicting teen suicides. Yet it is not public authorities who hold this real-time data, but private entities, such as mobile …-proclaimed ‘data philanthropy’ initiatives and other corporate data-sharing collaborations, data-rich companies have historically shown …

ability data are lacking and that schooling is measured with error. The estimate obtained by regressing earnings on schooling …

have developed a new data set entitled Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programmes (NSTP) in Developing Countries. One … advantage of this data set is that it traces 186 non-contributory programmes from 101 countries back in time and presents them … comparative quantitative and in-depth qualitative analyses. While describing the data we discuss a number of examples of how the …

methodological debates, advances in technology and increased data availability via a structure emphasising the practical nature of …

-response functions, which are in turn used as data in matching estimators. The history is organized around the observability of shocks … Woodward between data and phenomena. The history of shocks shows that this distinction must be substantially relativized if it …