LDI’s Vilhuber discusses reproducibility of studies with proprietary data at NBER Conference

Studies of household economy benefit from the new retentiveness of digital economic activity. Harnessing these fountains of data is the focus of an NBER conference December 10, 2021. LDI’s Executive Director Lars Vilhuber will discuss how to analyze this kind of data in rigorous, reproducible studies. Other presenters include Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics), Ross Epstein (SafeGraph), Chris Trepel (Fenway Summer Ventures), Joseph Vavra (U of Chicago), with Stephen Zeldes (Columbia) moderating. Topics will include company-specific experiences of working with academics, academics experience of working with companies, issues of reproducibility and how journals handle constraints on data availability.  

This is the second conference in a series, “Innovative Data in Household Finance: Opportunities and Challenges.” The program is available on the NBER website. The meeting will be livestreamed on NBER’s YouTube channel.