The economic impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a new public database built using private sector data

R Chetty, JN Friedman, M Stepner - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the United States at a
granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly …

An evaluation of the paycheck protection program using administrative payroll microdata

D Autor, D Cho, LD Crane, M Goldar, B Lutz… - Journal of Public …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a principal element of the fiscal stimulus
enacted by Congress in response to the COVID-19 economic shock, was intended to assist …

The US labor market during the beginning of the pandemic recession

T Cajner, LD Crane, RA Decker, J Grigsby… - 2020 - nber.org
Using weekly, anonymized administrative payroll data from the largest US payroll
processing company, we measure the evolution of the US labor market during the first three …

Impact of national e-participation levels on inclusive human development and environmental performance: The mediating role of corruption control

P Silal, D Saha - Government Information Quarterly, 2021 - Elsevier
Against a backdrop of scant scholarly evidence regarding the effectiveness of E-
Participation (EP) in enabling broader macro-level outcomes, we posit that electronic …

Reconciling unemployment claims with job losses in the first months of the COVID-19 crisis

T Cajner, A Figura, BM Price, D Ratner, A Weingarden - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In the spring of 2020, many observers relied heavily on weekly initial claims for
unemployment insurance benefits (UI) to estimate contemporaneous reductions in US …

Big Data and Official Statistics

KG Abraham - Review of Income and Wealth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The infrastructure and methods for developed countries' economic statistics, largely
established in the mid‐20th century, rest almost entirely on survey and administrative data …

Nowcasting economic activity with mobility data

K Matsumura, Y Oh, T Sugo, K Takahashi - Journal of the Japanese and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We develop high-frequency indexes to measure sales in service industries and production
in the manufacturing sector by using GPS mobility data from mobile applications. First, by …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated data: Research potential and data quality

M Benzeval, CR Bollinger, J Burton, MP Couper… - … Society Working Paper …, 2020 - ukri.org
In this review we discuss how integrated survey and administrative data have been used for
research on income and employment, education and health; where the future potential for …

Measuring aggregate housing wealth: New insights from machine learning☆

J Gallin, R Molloy, E Nielsen, P Smith… - Journal of Housing …, 2021 - Elsevier
We construct a new measure of aggregate housing wealth for the US based on (1) home-
value estimates derived from machine learning algorithms applied to detailed information on …

[图书][B] On the Inaccuracies of Economic Observations: Why and How We Could Do Better

PAG van Bergeijk - 2024 - books.google.com
This informative book reveals the pervasive nature of large inaccuracies in economic
statistics. Drawing on numerous real-world examples including case studies from advanced …