Eric Thai

Eric Thai

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science

Interesting Data

The linked Dropbox folder contains the employment trends of all 978 NAICS industry codes.

  • Plot A graphs box-plots of industry employment in each US state as a share of total industry employment across US states for every year where data is available.

  • Plot B graphs box-plots of industry employment in each US state as a share of total state employment for every year where data is available.

  • Plot C graphs box-plots of employment count for every year where data is available.

E.g., Winery Industry (NAICS 312130)

Wineries

Data source: Eckert, Fabian, Teresa Fort, Peter Schott, and Natalie Yang. 2020. Imputing Missing Values in the US Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:[10.3386/w26632](doi:%5B10.3386/w26632){.uri}.

The linked Dropbox folder contains the trends of trade-issue related mentions in Congressional Speeches from the 97th to 114th Congress.

E.g., Trends of WTO mentions WTO

Data source: Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Matt Taddy. 2018. “Congressional Record for the 43rd-114th Congresses: Parsed Speeches and Phrase Counts.” https://data.stanford.edu/congress_text (May 8, 2025).