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Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (CARRA) Working Papers
Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (CARRA) Working Papers
Research on the nation’s people and economy using the Data Linkage Infrastructure, the Census Bureau's clearinghouse for administrative, census and survey data.
Working Paper
Evaluating Administrative Records as a Potential Sample Frame for the National Survey of College Graduates
This paper uses an extract of administrative records from the National Student Clearinghouse to examine the coverage of the NSCG sampling frame.
Working Paper
Evaluating Administrative Records to Inform Measurement Error Properties of National Survey of College Graduates Estimates: An Analysis of the NSCG-LEHD Earnings Ratio
This paper compares earnings responses on the NSCG to administrative earnings data from the LEHD.
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Evaluating the Master Address File—Auxiliary Reference file (MAF-ARF) as a Potential Respondent Retention Source
This paper uses administrative records on residential histories to follow survey respondents to the NSCG over time.
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Evaluating Administrative Records to Inform Measurement Error Properties of National Survey of College Graduates Estimates: Employment History and Firm Characteristics
This paper compares survey responses on employment and employer characteristics to administrative records from the LEHD.
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Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility
This paper documents trends in local industrial concentration from 1976 through 2015 and estimates the effects of that concentration on earnings outcomes.
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Individual Changes in Identification with Hispanic Ethnic Origins...
This paper examines the extent to which individuals change between specific categories of Hispanic identification across two decennial censuses.
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Using Linked Data to Investigate True Intergenerational Change....
This paper provides proof of concept for using linked data to follow three generations of immigrant parents, children and grandchildren across seven decades.
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The Opportunities and Challenges of Linked IRS Administrative...
This paper assesses bias in and demonstrates the utility of linked IRS, SSA, ACS, and decennial census data for longitudinal study of contemporary migration.
Working Paper
Foreign-Born and Native-Born Migration in the U.S.: Evidence from...
This paper details migration among native-born and foreign-born populations in the United States using linked IRS, SSA, ACS, and decennial census records.
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The Use of Administrative Records and the American Community Survey...
This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to explore the characteristics of children under age five likely to be undercounted in the 2010 Census.
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Reporting of Indian Health Service Coverage in the ACS
Compares reporting of Indian Health Service coverage in the American Community Survey to Indian Health Service Patient Registration data
Working Paper
Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
This paper uses US Census Bureau administrative data to evaluate the common hypotheses that emphasize youth as a key trait of successful entrepreneurs
Working Paper
The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages
This work uses linked administrative and survey data to explore how state minimum wages affect income inequality and the distribution of earnings growth.
Working Paper
Investigating the Use of Administrative Records in the CES
This paper compares responses to income questions on the Consumer Expenditure Survey with administrative tax records to study item and survey non-response bias.
Working Paper
Tax Preparers, Refund Anticipation Products, and EITC Noncompliance
This work examines whether the availability of tax refund anticipation products is associated with higher non-compliance rates for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Working Paper
Capturing more than poverty: Free & reduced-price lunches and income
This paper investigates whether free and reduced-price lunch designations capture students’ household income and educational disadvantage.
Working Paper
Correctional Facility and Inmate Locations: Status Patterns
This paper informs discussion about Census Bureau residence criteria by describing the urban and rural distribution of inmates and correctional facilities.
Working Paper
Labor Market Effects of the Affordable Care Act
This paper investigates the extent to which residents in states that declined to raise Medicaid income eligibility cutoffs increased their earnings.
Working Paper
Is Subsidized Childcare Associated with Lower Risk of Grade Retention?
Investigates whether children's experience of subsidized childcare is associated with a lower subsequent likelihood of being held back in grades K-12.
Working Paper
Longitudinal Environmental Inequality and Environmental Gentrification
Analyzes longitudinal dimensions of environmental inequality by examining the distribution of changes in individual pollution exposure.
Working Paper
The Long-term Effects of Environmental Inequality At Birth
Examines the effect of pollution exposure on several intermediate determinants of adult wages including educational attainment and incarceration.
Working Paper
High Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job, Output & Productivity
Recent research shows that the job creating prowess of small firms in the U.S. is better attributed to startups and young firms that are small.
Working Paper
Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency & Productivity Slowdown
Evidence suggests that the decline in dynamism is reason for concern and sheds light on debates about the causes of slowing productivity growth.
Working Paper
Racial Disparity in an Era of Increasing Income Inequality
Documents income inequality and mobility trends from 2000 to 2014 using the universe of tax filers matched to individual-level race and ethnicity data.
Working Paper
Medicare Coverage and Reporting
Estimates the extent to which individuals misreport their Medicare coverage.
Working Paper
Response Error & the Medicaid Undercount in the CPS
Examines the Medicaid undercount in the 2007-2011 CPS ASEC compared to enrollment data from the Medicaid Statistical Information System.
Working Paper
Local Labor Demand and Program Participation Dynamics
Estimates effect of fluctuations in local labor conditions on the likelihood that participants can transition out of SNAP.
Working Paper
Small Business Growth and Failure during the Great Recession
Explores whether shifts in home prices from 2002 - 2011 had differential impacts on business performance across owner race, ethnicity and gender.
Working Paper
The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment
Explores increases in cumulative work experience for women from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Working Paper
Differences in Self-employment Duration by Year of Entry & Pre-entry
Examines self-employment duration for five consecutive entry cohorts, including two cohorts who entered self-employment during the Great Recession.
Working Paper
Evaluating the Use of Commercial Data to Improve Survey Estimates
Evaluates the potential to use commercial data to reduce respondent burden, study survey response error and improve adjustments for survey nonresponse.
Working Paper
An Assessment of Accuracy in Linked Historical Data
Compares simulated linkages to benchmark data to examine linkage quality achieved by various record linkage techniques used in historical demography.
Working Paper
How State Policies Changed Advanced Tax Refund Payments
Examines the impact of state-level regulation of Refund Anticipation Loans on the increase in the use of Refund Anticipation Checks and on taxpayer outcomes.
Working Paper
Measuring The Effects Of The Tipped Minimum Wage Using W-2 Data
Estimates the effects of tipped minimum wages on the wages and hourly tips of servers, as well as server employment and hours worked.
Working Paper
The Effect of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Mobility
Examines the effects of subsidized housing construction on neighborhood characteristics using nationally representative microdata.
Working Paper
Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Uses county border pair identification to explore individual labor supply response to UI benefit extension.
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