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

Explore new working papers published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) 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 researchers using restricted-use microdata.

• Food Security Status Across the Rural-Urban Continuum Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Patrick J. Brady, Melissa N. Laska, Rachel Widome, and Sruthi Valluri
• A Granular Look into Firms’ Cash Portfolios
  Youngsuk Yook
• Potential Bias When Using Administrative Data to Measure the Family Income of School-Aged Children
  Leah R. Clark and Renuka Bhaskar
• Investigating the Effect of Innovation Activities of Firms on Innovation Performance: Does Firm Size Matter?
  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
  Richard Beem and Martha Stinson
• The Effect of Oil News Shocks on Job Creation and Destruction
  Ryan Hanson and Ana María Herrera
• U.S. Banks’ Artificial Intelligence and Small Business Lending: Evidence from the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey
  Jeffery Piao, K. Philip Wang, and Diana L. Weng
• Business Dynamics Statistics of Coastal Counties: A Description of Differences in Coastal Areas Over Time
  Melissa Chow and Martha Stinson
• Workers’ Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics
  Seula Kim
• Applying Current Core Based Statistical Area Standards to Historical Census Data, 1940-2020
  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
  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
  Abhishek Bhardwaj, Abhinav Gupta, and Sabrina T. Howell
• The Design of Sampling Strata for the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
  Jonathan Eggleston, Linden McBride, and Mark Klee
• Corporate Share Repurchase Policies and Labor Share
  Xudong Fu, Darren Kisgen, and Lei Kong
• The Intangible Divide: Why Do So Few Firms Invest in Innovation?
  James Bessen and Xiupeng Wang
• Peer Income Exposure Across the Income Distribution
  Michelle Spiegel, Leah Clark, Thurston Domina, Emily Penner, Paul Hanselman, Paul Y. Yoo, and Andrew Penner
• Work Organization and Cumulative Advantage
  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
  Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio, and Thomas B. Foster

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

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