1/ How have racial and overall inequalities evolved in #SouthAfrica since the end of apartheid? Our latest study brings fresh evidence using a unique microdatabase covering 1993–2019, combining surveys, tax data, national accounts & historical budgets ⤵️ taxobservatory.eu/publicatio…

👋New paper! How do hours worked vary across countries, historically, and why? We construct a new microdatabase covering 160 countries, including long time series in 86 countries, to revisit these questions. 👇

Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from @amorygethin and Emmanuel Saez nber.org/papers/w34217

To estimate the effects of educational progress on worldwide growth and poverty reduction, I assemble a new microdatabase covering education and earnings in 154 countries. 3/9

The starting point is a new microdatabase representative of 95% of the world’s population, which I assemble by harmonizing surveys fielded in 150 countries around 2019. It provides comprehensive information on education, individual incomes, and other sociodemographics.

Excited to present my job market paper! Exploiting a unique microdatabase, I estimate that education accounts for: 1⃣ 50% of global economic growth since 1980 2⃣ 70% of growth for the world’s poorest 20% 3⃣ 50% of global gender inequality reduction 🔗 amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Ge…

Study of @MCC_Berlin: little to no causal evidence for investment leakage of German companies that are affected by EU #ETS. Based on confidential #Bundesbank "Microdatabase Direct Investment" for 2005-13, with #CO2price fluctuating between 5 and 32 euros. mcc-berlin.net/en/news/infor…

"Tutorial: Building and consuming Virtual Microdatabase with JBoss Data Virtualization" has been published on - developers.redhat.com/blog/2…

microdatabase: noun, often perjorative 1: Macro aggression

“How we built a microdatabase with Kafka, Elasticsearch, and a log structured merge tree library we found on GitHub”

please define a microdatabase as ‘a in-house database over kafka’, micro as in less featured than say postgres/more focused on feature set