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. Additional information is posted on the LED website at http://lehd.did.census.gov.
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

Euler-Equation Estimation for Discrete Choice Models: A Capital Accumulation Application
Cooper, Haltiwanger, Willis

The Closure Effect: Evidence from Workers Compensation Litigation
Hyatt

On Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Compliance Costs
Becker

Employee Capitalism or Corporate Socialism? Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership
Kim, Ouimet

The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, White, Reiter

IT for Information-Based Partnerships: Empirical Analysis of Environmental Contingencies to Value Co-Creation
Saldanha, Melville, Ramirez, Richardson

Information Technology, Capabilities and Asset Ownership: Evidence from Taxicab Fleets
Rawley, Simcoe

A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries
Pierce, Schott

Current Seminars

02/11The closure effect: evidence from workers compensation litigation
Hyatt
02/04Long-term earnings losses due to mass layoffs during the 1982 recession: an analysis using U.S. administrative data from 1974 to 2004
von Wachter
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"
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Questions about the seminars can be e-mailed to ces.seminars@census.gov