Administrative registers – Unexplored reservoirs of Scientific Knowledge?
基于挪威Frisch中心数据库的经验，讨论行政登记数据如何推动劳动市场经济学实证研究，尤其强调其在因果效应识别与估计中的潜力，并指出需要发展新方法和计算技术。
Administrative registers constitute valuable, yet to a large extent unexplored, sources of knowledge about human behaviour. In this paper, we discuss how register data can contribute to scientific progress within the field of empirical labour market economics. The discussion is founded on our own experience derived from the Norwegian Frisch Centre Database. We argue that access to register data opens up new and challenging avenues for future research, particularly with respect to the identification and estimation of causal effects. Efficient utilisation of register data requires development of new methodological approaches and new statistical and computational techniques.