Working Papers and Data Sets


* Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data forthcoming The Journal of Economic History Excel file with Data

* Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing , revised June 2008

* Measures of Hours Per Capita and their Implications for the Technology-Hours Debate with Neville Francis, revised June 2008. Excel file with Data

* A Century of Work and Leisure with Neville Francis, Revised February 2008. This new version shows time use by demographic groups.

* The Rug Rat Race with Garey Ramey, December 2007

* Oil Shocks, Segment Shifts and Capacity Utilization in the U.S. Automobile Industry: What Has Changed in 30 Years? with Daniel J. Vine, December 2007

* How Much has Leisure Really Increased Since 1965? January 2007

* Ramey & Ramey Response to Chatterjee-Shukayev "Are Average Growth Rate and Volatility Related?" September 2006

* Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry with Daniel J. Vine, Revised March 11, 2004

* Market Responses to Interindustry Wage Differentials with George J. Borjas, July 2000

* Capital Churning with Matthew D. Shapiro, July 1998

* Technology Commitment and the Cost of Business Cycles with Garey Ramey June 1991

(Note: This is the paper we originally submitted to the AER. The first half presents a theory showing how technology commitment and endogenous growth imply a high cost of business cycles. The second half analyzes the relationship between growth and volatility in U.S. time series data. The requested revision, which asked us to eliminate the theory and present cross-country evidence, is the paper published in 1995 under the title "Cross-Country Evidence on the Link between Volatility and Growth.")


Data Sets

* Data for "Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data"

* Data for "A Century of Work and Leisure" (Excel file)

* Data for Francis-Ramey "New Measures of Hours Per Capita"

* Data for Ramey & Ramey Cross-Country Volatility Study (AER Dec. 1995)

* Weekly Plant Level Auto Data from Ramey-Vine

* Monthly Plant Level Auto Data Ramey-Vine (December 2006 AER)