Sources

Data Sources

  • Lightcast — AI-related job postings data (2014–2023)
  • U.S. Census Bureau
    • American Community Survey (ACS, 5‑year estimates 2013–2022) for demographics
    • Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS, 2013–2023) for employment counts
    • Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI, 2013–2023) for labor turnover
    • County Business Patterns (CBP, 2013–2023) for establishment sizes & industry employment
  • Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) — House Price Index & growth rates (2013–2024)
  • USPTO / PatentsView
    • All patents & inventor counts, by county
    • AI-specific patent classification (Giczy et al., 2022)
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) — Bachelor’s & master’s degrees awarded per capita

Code & Reproducibility

Software & Packages

  • R (4.0+) with:
    • tidyverse, fixest, modelsummary, kableExtra
    • sf, leaflet, tigris, scales
  • Quarto (Cosmo & Brand themes)