David Van Dijcke

David Van Dijcke

PhD student in Economics @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Academic Visitor @ Bank of England.

drawing GitHub

Please find my GitHub commits and repositories here:

drawing Distributional Synthetic Controls (DiSCos) R package Implements the method in Gunsilius (2023).

drawing Public response to government alerts saves lives during Russian invasion of Ukraine

Git for the paper can be found here, full replication materials are on Harvard Dataverse.

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drawing Science Skepticism Reduces Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Policies

Git for the paper can be found here, full replication materials are on OpenICPSR.

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drawing Census Block Group Level Presidential Election Results

Datasets of CBG-level election results, for granular matching with, e.g., the American Community Survey, can be found here for 2016 and here for 2020.

Credits for the code basis to Maria Milosh.

drawing Using Mobile Device Traces to Improve Near-Real Time Data Collection During the George Floyd Protests

The estimated protest locations and code to produce them can be found here.

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drawing COVID-19: US State Lock-Down Policies - Dates of Implementation

The dataset with implementation dates of states’ lock-down policies from our working paper “The COVID-19 Pandemic: Government vs. Community Action Across the United States” can be found here. For the county-level dataset, see this webpage.

NB only emergency declarations, business and school closures and stay-at-home policies are updated until May 15. When a policy was implemented after 12pm on a given date, we assign it to the next date.

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drawing Shadow Rate Estimates

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Extends the series on the Bank of New Zealand website to additional OECD countries. See: https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and-publications/research-programme/additional-research/measures-of-the-stance-of-united-states-monetary-policy/comparison-of-international-monetary-policy-measures

Please cite:
Van Dijcke, D. (2019). Leaning Against the Wind When Inequality Bites Back. Working Paper.
Krippner, L. (2012). Modifying Gaussian term structure models when interest rates are near the zero lower bound. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper, (2012/02).