Explore new working papers published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the first quarter of 2025.





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Explore new working papers published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) [ [link removed] ] in the first quarter of 2025. The CES Working Paper Series features research in economics and other social sciences by Census Bureau and Federal Statistical Research Data Centers [ [link removed] ] researchers using restricted-use microdata.


* Food Security Status Across the Rural-Urban Continuum Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic [ [link removed] ]
Patrick J. Brady, Melissa N. Laska, Rachel Widome, and Sruthi Valluri
* A Granular Look into Firms’ Cash Portfolios [ [link removed] ]
Youngsuk Yook
* Potential Bias When Using Administrative Data to Measure the Family Income of School-Aged Children [ [link removed] ]
Leah R. Clark and Renuka Bhaskar
* Investigating the Effect of Innovation Activities of Firms on Innovation Performance: Does Firm Size Matter? [ [link removed] ]
Mahour Parast, Adegoke Oke, and Matthew Doolin
* Measuring the Business Dynamics of Firms that Received Pandemic Relief Funding: Findings from a New Experimental BDS Data Product [ [link removed] ]
Richard Beem and Martha Stinson
* The Effect of Oil News Shocks on Job Creation and Destruction [ [link removed] ]
Ryan Hanson and Ana María Herrera
* U.S. Banks’ Artificial Intelligence and Small Business Lending: Evidence from the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey [ [link removed] ]
Jeffery Piao, K. Philip Wang, and Diana L. Weng
* Business Dynamics Statistics of Coastal Counties: A Description of Differences in Coastal Areas Over Time [ [link removed] ]
Melissa Chow and Martha Stinson
* Workers’ Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics [ [link removed] ]
Seula Kim
* Applying Current Core Based Statistical Area Standards to Historical Census Data, 1940-2020 [ [link removed] ]
Todd Gardner
* Geographic Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Mortality in the US: Comparing Impacts of Place of Birth and Place of Residence [ [link removed] ]
Jason Fletcher, Katie Jajtner, and Jinho Kim
* Leveraged Payouts: How Using New Debt to Pay Returns in Private Equity Affects Firms, Employees, Creditors, and Investors [ [link removed] ]
Abhishek Bhardwaj, Abhinav Gupta, and Sabrina T. Howell
* The Design of Sampling Strata for the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey [ [link removed] ]
Jonathan Eggleston, Linden McBride, and Mark Klee
* Corporate Share Repurchase Policies and Labor Share [ [link removed] ]
Xudong Fu, Darren Kisgen, and Lei Kong
* The Intangible Divide: Why Do So Few Firms Invest in Innovation? [ [link removed] ]
James Bessen and Xiupeng Wang
* Peer Income Exposure Across the Income Distribution [ [link removed] ]
Michelle Spiegel, Leah Clark, Thurston Domina, Emily Penner, Paul Hanselman, Paul Y. Yoo, and Andrew Penner
* Work Organization and Cumulative Advantage [ [link removed] ]
Dylan Nelson, Nathan Wilmers, and Letian Zhang
* Geographic Immobility in the United States: Assessing the Prevalence and Characteristics of Those Who Never Migrate Across State Lines Using Linked Federal Tax Microdata [ [link removed] ]
Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio, and Thomas B. Foster

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