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

Twenty working papers were published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the third quarter of 2024. The CES Working Paper Series features research in economics and other social sciences, by U.S. Census Bureau and FSRDC researchers, using restricted-use Census Bureau microdata:

• Contrasting the Local and National Demographic Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks
  Richard K. Mansfield
• Expanding the Frontier of Economic Statistics Using Big Data: A Case Study of Regional Employment
  Abe Dunn, Eric English, Kyle Hood, Lowell Mason, and Brian Quistorff
• Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
  Raj Chetty, Will Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, and Crystal S. Yang
• Household Wealth and Entrepreneurial Career Choices: Evidence from Climate Disasters
  Xiao Cen
• Competition, Firm Innovation, and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers
  Karam Jo and Seula Kim
• Employer Dominance and Worker Earnings in Finance
  Wenting Ma
• Driving the Gig Economy
  Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Claire Hou, Kristin Sandusky, and James R. Spletzer
• Supply Chain Adjustments to Tariff Shocks: Evidence from Firm Trade Linkages in the 2018-2019 U.S. Trade War
  Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, and Ryan Monarch
• Socially Responsible Investment and Gender Equality in the United States Census
  Minsu Ko and Cynthia Yin
• Foreign Direct Investment, Geography, and Welfare
  Jose Asturias, Marco Sanfilippo, and Asha Sundaram
• Empirical Distribution of the Plant-Level Components of Energy and Carbon Intensity at the Six-digit NAICS Level Using a Modified KAYA Identity
  Gale Boyd, Matthew Doolin, and Yu Ma
• Who Scars the Easiest? College Quality and the Effects of Graduating into a Recession
  Garrett Anstreicher and Lois Miller
• Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics
  Kevin L. McKinney and John M. Abowd
• Aggregation Bias in the Measurement of U.S. Global Value Chains
  Aaron Flaaen, Fariha Kamal, Eunhee Lee, and Kei-Mu Yi
• Internal Migration in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Thomas B. Foster, Lee Fiorio, and Mark Ellis
• Revisions to the LEHD Establishment Imputation Procedure and Applications to Administrative Jobs Frame
  Lee Tucker, Moises Yi, Filip Babalievsky, Hubert P. Janicki, Stephen R. Tibbets, and Lawrence Warren
• Earnings Through the Stages: Using Tax Data to Test for Sources of Error in CPS ASEC Earnings and Inequality Measures
  Ethan Krohn
• Transitional Costs and the Decline of Coal: Worker-Level Evidence
  Jonathan Colmer, Eleanor Krause, Eva Lyubich, and John Voorheis
• The Effect of Food Assistance Work Requirements on Labor Market Outcomes
  Thomas Carl Keene and Craig Wesley Carpenter
• Comparison of Child Reporting in the American Community Survey and Federal Income Tax Returns Based on California Birth Records
  Gloria G. Aldana

The complete CES working paper series can be found at https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/series/ces-wp.html. Any opinions and conclusions in these working papers are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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