Breathing New Life into Death Certificates: Extracting Handwritten Cause of Death in the LIFE-M Project

Martha J. Bailey, Susan H. Leonard, Joseph Price, Evan Roberts, Logan Spector, and Mengying Zhang

Forthcoming, Explorations in Economic History

Online Appendix about image digitization available here

How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Evidence from U.S. Historical Data

Martha J. Bailey, Connor Cole, Morgan Henderson, and Catherine Massey

Journal of Economic Literature, 2020, 58(4): 997-1044.

See also NBER Working Paper 24019 and Appendices

This paper was discussed in Martha Bailey’s NBER Summer Institute Methods Lecture on Data Linking, 7/11/2017.

autolink.ado

Martha J. Bailey and Connor Cole

Beta-version of a Stata record linking program available at the ICPSR Record Linkage Library.

Simple Strategies for Improving Inference with Linked Data: A Case Study of the 1850-1930 IPUMS Linked Representative Historical Samples

Martha J. Bailey, Connor Cole, and Catherine Massey

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2019.

Marital Matching and Women’s Intergenerational Mobility in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century U.S.

Martha J. Bailey and Peter Z. Lin

Washed Away: Lasting Effects of the Ohio Flood of 1913

Martha J. Bailey, Johnny Huynh, and Alexa Prettyman

The Creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database Project

Martha J. Bailey, Peter Z. Lin, A.R. Shariq Mohammed, Paul Mohnen, Jared Murray, Mengying Zhang, and Alexa Prettyman

Conditionally accepted, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.

Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools

A.R. Shariq Mohammed and Paul Mohnen

R&R, The Journal of Economic History

Understanding the Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational  Mobility

Martha J. Bailey, Peter Z. Lin, A.R. Shariq Mohammed, and Alexa Prettyman

In process for RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

The Determinants of Life Expectancy in the 20th Century U.S.

Martha J. Bailey, Alfia Karimova, and Michael J. Murto

In process for the Journal of Health Economics

Childbearing in the United States: Past, Present, and Future

Martha J. Bailey

In process for the Journal of Economic Literature