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General Economic Research Working Papers
General Economic Research Working Papers
U.S. Census Bureau "Working Papers" have not undergone the review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications. These working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics.
- View lists of working papers by series and through the Center for Economic Studies Ideas site
Working Paper
Payroll Tax Incidence: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
State unemployment insurance tax increases resulted in significant reductions in employment growth driven by lower hiring, but minimal pass-through to earnings.
Working Paper
The Impact of Parental Resources on Human Capital Investment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Great Recession
Using restricted-access data, I find that declines to parents’ home values during the Great Recession decreased children’s college attainment and earnings.
Working Paper
Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis
IT adoption by large business services firms can account for most of the increase in US regional wage inequality since 1980.
Working Paper
Measuring Income of the Aged in Household Surveys: Evidence from Linked Administrative Records
We examine how retirement income underreporting in the CPS ASEC and HRS affects key statistics such as reliance on Social Security benefits and poverty rates.
Working Paper
Citizenship Question Effects on Household Survey Response
Analysis of the 2019 Census Test linked to administrative data suggests that adding a citizenship question would increase noncitizen undercounts.
Working Paper
Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class
Why do people marry within their race and class? This study examines if residential segregation limits marriage across race and class lines in the US.
Working Paper
Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods
I look at the social and political impact of gentrification within urban communities across the U.S. and find it is stratified across income and racial groups.
Working Paper
How Big is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Subsidies
We study the small firm growth effects of SBA industry size standards that determine eligibility for small business subsidies.
Working Paper
Gradient Boosting to Address Statistical Problems Arising from Non-Linkage of U.S. Census Bureau Datasets
This article is a tutorial for using twangRDC to generate nonresponse weights to account for non-linkage of person records across U.S. Census Bureau datasets.
Working Paper
Revisiting Methods to Assign Responses when Race and Hispanic Origin Reporting are Discrepant Across Administrative Records and Third Party Sources
This paper discusses changes to the business rules for assigning ethnicity to the pre-decennial Best Race and Ethnicity administrative records composite file.
Working Paper
School Equalization in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and Consequences of Resource Disparity in Mississippi circa 1940
Black schools in Mississippi remained underfunded following a finance equalization effort in 1920 at the expense of students’ long-term economic outcomes.
Working Paper
U.S. Worker Mobility Across Establishments within Firms: Scope, Prevalence, and Effects on Worker Earnings
This paper describes workers' opportunities to switch establishments within multi-establishment firms and assesses their impact on worker earnings growth.
Working Paper
Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics (MOVS): Infrastructure Files and Public Use Data
We introduce the Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics (MOVS) project, new public use data on income growth and household dynamics.
Working Paper
Does Rapid Transit and Light Rail Infrastructure Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
I analyze the effects of proximity to Los Angeles’s recent public transit expansions on local employment outcomes.
Working Paper
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility
We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital using SSA earnings linked to CPS.
Working Paper
After the Storm: How Emergency Liquidity Helps Small Businesses Following Natural Disasters
We show that SBA disaster loans to firms reduce distress, increase growth, and crowd-in private credit, which seems to reflect resolving repair uncertainty.
Working Paper
The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery
We study how random variation in the availability of skilled, foreign-born workers—generated by the 2007 H-1B visa lottery—impacts firms and workers.
Working Paper
Where Are Your Parents? Exploring Potential Bias in Administrative Records on Children
This paper examines potential bias in the Census Household Composition Key's (CHCK) probabilistic parent-child linkages.
Working Paper
Grassroots Design Meets Grassroots Innovation: Rural Design Orientation and Firm Performance
Evidence of faster employment growth by firms applying a structured approach to design shows its the key role as an input to innovation.
Working Paper
Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time: A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey
We provide new evidence on recent and expected future use of AI by U.S. businesses based on timely data from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey.
Working Paper
Family Resources and Human Capital in Economic Downturns
This paper examines the impacts of the Great Recession on adolescents over the parent income gradient and finds that middle-class children were most at risk.
Working Paper
Examining Racial Identity Responses Among People with Middle Eastern and North African Ancestry in the American Community Survey
We examine unedited race responses for people of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry on the American Community Survey between 2005-2019.
Working Paper
Good Dispersion, Bad Dispersion
Productivity is more dispersed across plants within firms than across firms. Rather than misallocation, this may reflect optimal reallocation of internal funds.
Research
Neighborhood Revitalization and Residential Sorting
The HOPE VI revitalization program reduced neighborhood poverty rates experienced by subsidized renters.
Working Paper
High-Growth Firms in the United States: Key Trends and New Data Opportunities
We introduce new public-use BDS statistics capturing the stock and flows of employment, firms, and establishments along the firm growth rate distribution.
Working Paper
The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income
This paper examines whether a generous cash intervention early in life can "undo" some of the long-term disadvantage associated with poor health at birth.
Working Paper
Starting Up AI
We document the rise in AI-related business applications between 2004-2023 and analyze the performance of businesses originating from these applications.
Working Paper
Scientific Talent Leaks Out of Funding Gaps
How do NIH grant funding delays affect research personnel's careers? We find a 3pp increase in not working in the US, and 20% decreased long run earnings.
Working Paper
Accounting for Trade Patterns
We develop a quantitative framework for exactly decomposing trade patterns into economically meaningful components.
Working Paper
The Rise of Specialized Firms
This paper finds that specialized firms have substantially increased their share of U.S. production and links this finding to rising concentration.
Working Paper
Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
We find that access to migrant workers through the H-2B visa program raises firm revenues and survival likelihood with limited crowd-out of incumbent workers.
Working Paper
The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
This paper decomposes Black-White environmental inequality, finding that convergence is due to compression in the overall pollution exposure distribution.
Working Paper
The Effects of Monetary Incentives on Income Data Quality in the SIPP
We find monetary incentives in the Survey of Income and Program Participation lower item nonresponse rates and measurement errors for some income questions.
Working Paper
Incorporating Administrative Data in Survey Weights for the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey
Using administrative data, we find minimal evidence of nonresponse bias in labor force statistics for the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey.
Working Paper
Connected And Uncooperative: The Effects Of Homogenous And Exclusive Social Networks On Survey Response Rates And Nonresponse Bias
We find that areas of the United States where people have more exclusive and homogenous social networks have higher nonresponse bias in the ACS.
Working Paper
Collaborative Micro-Productivity Project: Establishment-Level Productivity Dataset, 1972-2020
We describe the construction of the Collaborative Micro-productivity Project microdata, which is used to create the Dispersion Statistics on Productivity.
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