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Re: industry-committee mapping
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Jens,

You might try Scott Adler at University of Colorado at Boulder, and especially his book, WHY CONGRESSIONAL REFORMS FAIL: REELECTION AND THE HOUSE COMMITTEE SYSTEM.  I'm not sure he went down to the detail of the SIC industry codes, though, but it's worth a look.

Tom Hammond
Michigan State

Quoting "Jens Hainmueller" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi all,
>
> Andy Eggers and I are working on a project that requires us to link SIC
> industry codes and the jurisdictions of congressional committees and
> subcommittees (e.g. which SIC codes are overseen/regulated by a particular
> committee). Do you happen to know of anyone who has dealt with this
> industry-(sub)committee mapping, so we don't reinvent the wheel?
>
> The only thing we could find on this is a paper by Brett Meyer
> (http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/boyer/financeseminar/s07_08/Myers.pdf),
> which is limited to 2-digit SIC industries and few committees. Ideally we'd
> like to do a 3-digit mapping and include all relevant committees and
> subcommittees.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
>
> Regards,
> Jens
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