HHDI

Note: This is an old page from when I was studying at Minnesota. I leave it up for those who are interested in using the material. The HHEI now has copies of all programs and datasets.

The Heller Hurwicz Data Initiative is a longitudinal data gathering project housed in the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute. Driven by undergraduate researchers, it provides educational outreach to the university community and simultaneously generates a valuable resource for economists. The project constructs and maintains a publicly available unemployment insurance (UI) database and associated calculator that can be used in conjunction with panel data of US workers to construct estimates of the UI benefits available to them. For the official page at the HHEI website, please click here.

The project was conceived of and started in the Spring of 2015 and has benefited enormously from the help and advice of Jonathan Gruber, Elira Kuka and Chloe East. While currently limited to UI, we are hoping to expand the project to include other social programs so that we can construct a comprehensive picture of the incentives faced by those at the bottom of the earnings distribution.

Below is the working draft of the summary of the current state of the project, database and Stata code for the UI calculator. Please be warned that everything is VERY preliminary.

Research Assistants (Fall, 2015):

Min Jung Cha

Sam Fogas

Nur Mohd Karim

Tong Lu

Sadman Rahman

Research Assistants (Spring, 2015):

Ryan Dias

Brady Durst

Edward Lins

Minh Tran

Ryan Webster

L-R: Ryan Webster, Ed Lins, Ryan Dias, Minh Tran, Brady Durst