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How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data

By Martha J. Bailey, Connor Cole, Morgan Henderson, and Catherine Massey

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations in their assumptions. We use two high-quality, hand-linked data sets and one ...