New Economic and Social Science Research Published in the CES Working Paper Series

Seventeen working papers were published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the second quarter of 2024. The CES Working Paper Series features research in economics and other social sciences by U.S. Census Bureau and?Federal Statistical Research Data Centers researchers using restricted-use Census Bureau microdata:

• The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery
  Parag Mahajan, Nicolas Morales, Kevin Shih, Mingyu Chen, and Agostina Brinatti

• After the Storm: How Emergency Liquidity Helps Small Businesses Following Natural Disasters
  Benjamin Collier, Sabrina T. Howell, and Lea Rendell

• Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility
  Richard Blundell, Christopher R. Bollinger, Charles Hokayem, and James P. Ziliak

• Does Rapid Transit and Light Rail Infrastructure Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
  Maysen Yen

• Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics (MOVS): Infrastructure Files and Public Use Data
  Maggie R. Jones, Adam Bee, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Jonathan Rothbaum, and John Voorheis

• U.S. Worker Mobility Across Establishments within Firms: Scope, Prevalence, and Effects on Worker Earnings
  Jeronimo Carballo, Richard Mansfield, and Charles Adam Pfander

• School Equalization in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and Consequences of Resource Disparity in Mississippi circa 1940
  David Card, Leah Clark, Ciprian Domnisoru, and Lowell Taylor

• Revisiting Methods to Assign Responses when Race and Hispanic Origin Reporting are Discrepant Across Administrative Records and Third Party Sources
  James Noon

• Gradient Boosting to Address Statistical Problems Arising from Non-Linkage of U.S. Census Bureau Datasets
  Matthew Cefalu, John Sullivan, Narayan Sastry, Elizabeth Fussell, and Todd Gardner

• How Big is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Subsidies
  J. David Brown, Matthew Denes, Ran Duchin, and John Hackney

• Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods
  AJ Golio

• Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class
  Benjamin Goldman, Jamie Gracie, and Sonya R. Porter

• Citizenship Question Effects on Household Survey Response
  J. David Brown and Misty L. Heggeness

• Measuring Income of the Aged in Household Surveys: Evidence from Linked Administrative Records
  Adam Bee, Irena Dushi, Joshua Mitchell, and Brad Trenkamp

• Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis
  Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati, and Conor Walsh

• The Impact of Parental Resources on Human Capital Investment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Great Recession
  Jeremy Kirk

• Payroll Tax Incidence: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
  Audrey Guo

Explore the complete CES working paper series. Opinions and conclusions within these working papers are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Census Bureau.

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