Prepare for Meeting on Monday 7/17

[WilliamHLee104]

• [x] Write up list of questions for Adam (partial pay periods, small transactions that don't seem to be salary, pay raises, potential announcement effects, how much to discount income thresholds)
• [x] switch card_perc to full join instead of inner_jon to get people who have no credit cards
• [x] Find more state/local employees (maybe add university, hospital, and school employees but flag them)
• [x] Improve upper income limits to match FICA upper limits by year and rename the variables, implement Scott's new cutoffs
• [x] Pick a few individuals to show the limitations of the data
• [x] Discuss how to handle partial weeks
• [x] Discuss how to handle cohorts.
• [ ] Include cohort effects in the main regression
• [ ] Fix covariate category chart
• [x] Complete Unemployment Strings
• [x] Basic payroll/salary/consumption regression
• [ ] Discuss comparisons to other papers (Steve Hamilton, Ray Kleunder, Pascal Noel )
• [ ] Discuss SIPP comparisons
• [x] Propose a list of controls for regressions, list of measures for the balance table
• [x] New document should discuss the prior one (definitions, strategy, waterfall table)
• [x] Table of key variables and definitions in Data Description

[WilliamHLee104]

• [x] Figure out why all those extra federal categories disappeared
• [x] Redownload with 10% sample, maybe even 20%
• [x] add untreated fed
• [x] % increase by bin
• [x] fix trendline
• [x] add longer preperiod
• [ ] do event study graph in logs and levels
• [x] write up discussion on salary classification
• [x] write up discussion on reservist pay
• [x] find out where all the fed employees went
• [x] add untreated federal employees (USPS)
• [x] fix marine corp

[WilliamHLee104]

• [x] Fix double employees (include a few examples in the writeup)
• [x] Number of periods receiving at least one paycheck
• [x] fix median pay frequency
• [x] improve coverage to (payroll in each 4 month period)
• [ ] drop local_educ?? and USPS?
• [x] Improve regressions (four month chunks, maybe one with short run-up)
• [ ] Propose cohort solution
• [ ] Move files into dropbox
• [ ] go back and clarify when we are talking about average paycheck size vs. paycheck amounts
• [ ] discuss why boost is higher among low income earners (and discussion on more withholding data)
• [ ] improve moved (distance to DC)

[WilliamHLee104]

• [x] Fix moved locations to being a smoothed measure
• [x] Add more cities to the DC area map
• [ ] Find his old crosswalk
• [ ] Figure out why fed-inelig had a bump
• [ ] Expand the selection generally to get more people
• [ ] Redo some of those graphs with paycheck size and total sum
• [ ] Email Adam about withholding info
• [x] Do the 2x2 grid separately
• [ ] Refine median_pay_freq to eliminate double incomes
• [ ] more user_history variables
• [ ] Discuss how raises in Jan 2021 impacts federal employees
• [ ] when do fed employees get raises
• [x] coverage statistics on geo
• [x] Bibliography in rmarkdown