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

A Change of PACE: Comparing the 1994 and 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Surveys
Shadbegian, Becker

Analysis of Young Small Firms That Have Closed: Delineating Successful from Unsuccessful Closures
Bates

Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge: Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry
Hubbard, Garicano

Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
Cutler, Glaeser, Vigdor

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

Investment Behavior of U.S. Firms Over Heterogenous Capital Goods: A Snapshot
Wilson

The Effects of Outsourcing on the Elasticity of Labor Demand
Senses

Diversification, Organizational Adjustment and Firm Performance: Evidence from Microdata
Rawley

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