Papers - Data

Question 1

Hanna & Linden (2012) Discrimination in Grading

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Identical Grade-4 maths tests randomly labelled with caste, gender, age; 113 teachers graded 241 scripts.

Question 2

Lavy (2008) Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls or Boys Human Capital Outcomes?

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Nationwide 2000-02 matriculation panel linking blind external and non-blind school marks for 400k students.

Question 3

Alesina et al. (2024) Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

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1,384 teachers’ grades 2011-17 matched to INVALSI tests plus lab-in-field grading of mock scripts with IAT feedback.

Question 4

Bertrand & Mullainathan (2004) Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?

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5,000 fictitious resumes with White- or African-American-sounding names sent to 1,300 Boston and Chicago job ads.

Question 5

Altonji, Bharadwaj & Lange (2012) Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth

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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 panels with test scores, schooling and family traits.

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Abramitzky & Lavy (2014) How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns?

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Administrative records for six cohorts (1995-2000) of kibbutz students matched to timing and intensity of pay-for-productivity reforms.

Question 7

Altonji, Bharadwaj & Lange (2008) The Anemic Response of Skill Investment to Skill Premium Growth

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Current Population Survey wage series (1973-2005), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System enrolments, NCES completions and tuition data.

Question 8

Jensen (2010) The Perceived Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling

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Panel of 3,000 eighth-grade boys; baseline perceptions, wage survey, subsequent dropout records.

Question 9

Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2002) Reversal of Fortune

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Urbanization and population density in 1500 combined with 1995 GDP for 64 former colonies.

Question 10

Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001) The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development

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80 former colonies’ GDP, institutional indices, historical mortality of European soldiers and clergy.

Question 11

Nunn & Qian (2011) The Potatos Contribution to Population and Urbanization

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Country-level population, urbanization 1700-1900; agronomic suitability for potato cultivation.

Question 12

Imberman, Kugler & Sacerdote (2012) Katrinas Children: Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees

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Administrative panel scores for 300k Houston and Louisiana students, linked to grade-level shares of evacuees plus attendance and discipline records 2002-07.

Question 13

Lavy & Schlosser (2011) Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

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Israeli census-like database covering 500k pupils’ test scores (grades 5-12) plus surveys on classroom climate, disruptions, fatigue.

Question 14

Lavy & Sand (2018) Social Networks and Student Outcomes

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Tel-Aviv school-choice data: students list up to eight friends; random within-school class assignment; linked test scores and well-being surveys for 17k pupils.

Question 15

Gould, Lavy & Paserman (2004) Immigrating to Opportunity: School Quality for Ethiopian Israelis

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Administrative panel tracking 4,500 Ethiopian students from elementary through high school; school pre-1991 math scores proxy quality; demographic controls.

Question 16

Duflo & Hanna (2005) Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

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Randomised trial in 120 NGO one-teacher schools; biometric cameras recorded arrival/departure; unannounced audits and pupil tests after one year.

Question 17

Lavy (2009) Performance Pay and Teachers Effort, Productivity and Ethics

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High-school admin records 1998-2002 for English and Math classes; treatment assigned to schools below a noisy 45 % pass threshold.

Question 18

Katz & Murphy (1992) Changes in Relative Wages, 19631987: Supply and Demand Factors

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March CPS microdata 1963-87 covering 1.4 m workers; weekly wages by education, experience, gender; industrial and occupational shares.

Question 19

Autor, Levy & Murnane (2003) Skill Content of Recent Technological Change

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Merges Dictionary of Occupational Titles task ratings with Census and CPS worker files, creating industry-occupation task panels covering 1960-1998 and measures of computer penetration.

Question 20

Goos, Manning & Salomons (2014) Explaining Job Polarization

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EU Labour Force Survey 1993-2010 with 100 million worker observations, matched to input-output tables, automation proxies and offshored intermediate imports by industry.

Question 21

Autor & Dorn (2013) Growth of LowSkill Service Jobs and US Polarization

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Census IPUMS and ACS microdata 1980-2005 for 318 occupations across 722 local labour markets, augmented with routine task indices and computer capital flows.

Question 22

Deming (2017) Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market

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Combines O*NET task ratings with Census/ACS 1980-2012 employment plus NLSY79 & NLSY97 skill and wage panels, classifying jobs by math and social intensity.

Question 23

Cavounidis et al. (2024) Nature of Technological Change 19602016

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US Census/ACS microdata 1960-2017 merged with O*NET skill inputs; millions of worker-year observations and occupation-skill profiles.

Question 24

Cavounidis et al. (2024) Obsolescence Rents: Truckers & Impending Computerization

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Historic teamster wages 1900-30, CPS trucking microdata 1980-2020, automation-risk scores (Frey-Osborne), demographic and earnings records.

Question 25

Acemoglu & Restrepo (2022) Tasks, Automation and US Wage Inequality

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Industry robot counts, specialized software and machinery 1987-2016; CPS wages for 500 demographic groups; education, gender, age controls.

Question 26

Frey & Osborne (2017) Future of Employment: Susceptibility to Computerisation

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Uses O*NET task descriptors for 702 occupations; expert panel labels training set; incorporates wages and education for comparative analysis.

Question 27

Rustagi, Engel & Kosfeld (2010) Conditional Cooperation & Forest Commons

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Field data from 49 Ethiopian forest-user groups plus lab-in-field public-goods games measuring cooperation types and monitoring effort.

Question 28

Tabellini (2008) The Scope of Cooperation: Values & Incentives

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Uses World Values Survey trust data and regional institutional quality across Europe to illustrate model predictions.

Question 29

Almas et al. (2022) Attitudes to Inequality: Preferences & Beliefs

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Meta-analysis of lab experiments and representative surveys covering ~60 000 respondents across diverse countries.

Question 30

Ostrom et al. (1999) - Collective Action and Institutions

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Comparative case studies of fisheries, irrigation, forests and grazing systems across continents.

Question 31

Acemoglu & Robinson (2023) Culture, Institutions & Social Equilibria

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Conceptual paper illustrated with historical episodes from revolutions and state-building.

Question 32

Blouin & Mukand (2019) Erasing Ethnicity? Propaganda & Identity in Rwanda

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438 villagers in 52 Rwandan communities with differential Radio Rwanda reception due to topography; lab-in-field games and surveys.

Question 33

Rohner & Zhuravskaya (eds.) (2023) Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes & Failures

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Twenty-six empirical and historical studies spanning education policy, contact programmes, propaganda, leadership and external intervention.

Question 34

Burgess et al. (2015) The Value of Democracy: Road Building in Kenya

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District-level road expenditure and paving 1963-2011 matched to presidents' ethnicity and periods of autocracy vs democracy.

Question 35

Kaur et al. (2022) Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

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Randomised field experiment with 408 male piece-rate plate-makers in rural Odisha during lean season; rich process data on hourly output, plate-quality metrics, debt and spending.

Question 36

Mani et al. (2013) Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

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Two-part study: laboratory tasks with New Jersey mall shoppers of varying income; natural before- and after-harvest tests of Indian sugar-cane farmers, examining same individuals when cash-poor and cash-rich.

Question 37

Henrich (2016) - The Secret of Our Success

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Draws on anthropological cases, psych experiments, evolutionary biology and historical narratives across societies.

Question 38

Greif (1994) - Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society

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Uses 11th-century Geniza letters and Genoese archives detailing trade practices and sanction mechanisms.

Question 39

Lavy & Sand (2018) - On the Origins of the Gender Human Capital Gap

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Tel Aviv cohort of 12k pupils links blind exams, teacher grades, and high-school course choices under random teacher assignment.