Research Program

The Center for Economic Studies (CES) and its network of Census Research Data Centers (RDCs) support and encourage research activity using Census Bureau microdata to improve Census Bureau programs. CES and the RDCs provide access to researchers, federal agencies, and other institutions to non-publicly available Census Bureau data files.
2008 Annual Research Report (PDF - 984kb)

News

The 2010 LED Annual Workshop
The 2010 LED annual workshop will be held in the Washington area on March 10-12, 2010. Travel and lodging costs for the selected presenters in the workshop will be reimbursed. Please complete and return the attached form to participate before the due date of December 2, 2009. This information is also posted at the LED website at http://lehd.did.census.gov.

Attached is a call for presentations and posters for the workshop.

2010_LEDwkshp_callforproposals.pdf
AHRQ Data Available Through Research Data Centers
The Center for Economic Studies (CES) is pleased to announce that the Census Bureau has reached agreement with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to make AHRQ's restricted Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data available to qualified researchers through the Census Research Data Center (RDC) network.
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Center for Economic Studies Dissertation Mentorship Program
The Center for Economic Studies wants to assist doctoral candidates who are actively engaged in dissertation research in economics or a related field using U.S. Census Bureau microdata at a Research Data Center.
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NCHS Announcement
As announced earlier, data from the National Center for Health Statistics are also available through the RDCs.

NCHS RDC Website
NCHS RDC Guidelines
NCHS RDC Datasets

Discussion Papers

Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from Califormia 1991-2000
von Wachter, Handwerker, Hildreth

Entrepreneurship and Japanese Industrialization in Historical Perspective
Tang

Health Insurance and Productivity: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Nguyen, Zawacki

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality
Silk, King III

Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Kerr, Ponzetto

Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
Dunne, Klimek, Roberts, Yi Xu

Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box: Complements or Substitutes?
Haltiwanger, Jarmin, Krizan

Who Leaves, Where to, and Why Worrry? Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship, and Effects on Source Firm Performance
Campbell, Ganco, Franco, Agarwal

Current Seminars

12/03Job Referral Networks and the Dispersion of Earnings in Local Labor Markets
Schmutte
11/18Unionization and the Distribution of Employees' Earnings: Evidence from Certification Elections
Frandsen
10/15Really Uncertain Business Cycles
Bloom
10/08Employment Clusters in U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 2000"
09/17The Impact of Changing Earnings Distributions and Household Characteristics on US Income Inequality Trends since 1967
Larrimore
09/03The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on US Macroeconomic Growth
White
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Questions about the seminars can be e-mailed to ces.seminars@census.gov