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Welcome to the Social Science Knowledge Accumulation Initiative Encyclopedia (SKAIPedia for short)! Our goal is to serve as a “living literature review” for the social science academic community. Here you can find overviews of various strands of literature as well as single-paper summaries. If you’re an academic, we hope you will also contribute to SKAIPedia (please read the short but important guidelines first)!

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Getting started

• SKAIPedia's Quick Start Guide
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Recent overview pages

• Effect of Migration on the Family Left Behind
• Pigouvian taxation
• Externality
• Public good
• Diversity in the Economics Profession
• The Motherhood Penalty
• The Effect of COVID-19 on Academic Productivity
• Long-term Effects of Natural Disasters
• The Elasticity of Substitution Between Capital and Labor
• Labor Market Concentration
• Labor Market Conditions and Crime

Recent single-paper pages

• Seeking Shelter: Empirically Modeling Tax Shelters Using Financial Statement Information
• Enterprise Recovery Following Natural Disasters
• Credit Lines as Insurance: Evidence from Bangladesh
• Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias
• Effects of neighborhood characteristics on the mortality of black male youth: Evidence from Gautreaux, Chicago
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway