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Macro- and MicroData Analyses and their Integration
In this book, Nancy and Richard Ruggles demonstrate their unique grasp of the measurement and analysis of macro and micro data and elucidate ways of integrating the two data sets.
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In this book, Nancy and Richard Ruggles demonstrate their unique grasp of the measurement and analysis of macro and micro data and elucidate ways of integrating the two data sets.
Their analysis of macrodata is used to examine the economic growth of the United States from the 1920s to the present day. They focus particularly on recession and recovery between 1929 and 1974 and the measurement of short-run economic growth. They also examine the measurement of saving, investment and capital formation in the United States. On a microeconomic level, they analyse economic intelligence in World War II, offer a study of fertility in the United States in the pre-war era and analyse longitudinal establishment data. Finally they integrating the two approaches to provide a method of providing a more complete picture of social and economic performance.
Their analysis of macrodata is used to examine the economic growth of the United States from the 1920s to the present day. They focus particularly on recession and recovery between 1929 and 1974 and the measurement of short-run economic growth. They also examine the measurement of saving, investment and capital formation in the United States. On a microeconomic level, they analyse economic intelligence in World War II, offer a study of fertility in the United States in the pre-war era and analyse longitudinal establishment data. Finally they integrating the two approaches to provide a method of providing a more complete picture of social and economic performance.
Critical Acclaim
‘Richard Ruggles, often assisted by Nancy Ruggles, has been a major contributor to national income accounting and to the empirical study of microeconomics and macroeconomics using that and other data. He has focused on the quantitative analysis of actual economic systems in a discipline increasingly preoccupied with abstract pure conceptual models. Like the work of Simon Kuznets and others, Ruggles’s analyses encompass an unusually wide range of variables.’
– Warren J. Samuels, Michigan State University, US
‘The essays collected in this volume represent pioneering work by Nancy and Richard Ruggles on both the integration of micro and macro accounting data and the development of microdata . . . [They] have wide-ranging implications for modern theories of savings and investment.’
– From the foreword by Edward N. Wolff
– Warren J. Samuels, Michigan State University, US
‘The essays collected in this volume represent pioneering work by Nancy and Richard Ruggles on both the integration of micro and macro accounting data and the development of microdata . . . [They] have wide-ranging implications for modern theories of savings and investment.’
– From the foreword by Edward N. Wolff
Contents
Contents: Preface Part I: Macroanalysis 1. Recession and Recovery in the United States, 1929–74, and Sectoral Saving and Investment Accounts 2. Economic Growth in the Short Run 3. Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Measurement of Saving and Investment 4. Household and Enterprise Saving and Capital Formation in the United States, 1947–91 5. Accounting for Saving and Capital Formation in the United States, 1947–91 Part II: Microanalysis 6. An Empirical Approach to Economic Intelligence in World War II 7. A Study of Differential Fertility Based on Census Data 8. A Strategy for Merging and Matching Microdata Sets 9. Merging Microdata 10. The Analysis of Longitudinal Establishment Data Part III: The Integration of Macro- and Microdata 11. Methodological Developments 12. Macroaccounts and Microdata Sets 13. The Relation of Methodology to the Technology of Economic Research 14. The Role of Microdata in the National Economic Accounts 15. Social Indicators and a Framework for Social and Economic Accounts 16. The Measurement of Economic and Social Performance 17. The Development of Integrated Data Bases for Social, Economic and Demographic Statistics 18. The Integration of Macro- and Microdata for the Household Sector Bibliography Index
