Among economists, the analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates p....

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat

Microdata offers immense opportunities for impactful research. Students are encouraged to explore datasets and apply them to their empirical projects.This document provides an overview of (mainly) mic...

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To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms’ worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of more than a tenth of Sweden’s workforce. O...

We often see researchers handle variants of their analysis by copying and pasting code, or by copying code files into separate directories, and making only minimal modifications. Some folks do this fo...

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(April 2024) - We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in ...