Working Papers

Business Formation: A Tale of Two Recessions

Business applications and employer business formation from applications display very different patterns during the Great Recession versus COVID-19 Recession.

Working Paper Number CES-21-01

Risk of Parental Death Across the Life Course

This paper estimates the risk of parental death across the life course using data from the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

Working Paper Number SEHSD-WP2020-21

Entrepreneurial Teams: Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth

This paper explores whether a diversity of skillsets and employment experience amongst members of a founder team helps enable the growth of startup firms.

Working Paper Number CES-20-45

Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States

In this paper we study the role of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We compare startup and job creation rates for immigrant vs native-born founded firms.

Working Paper Number CES-20-44

The Shifting of the Property Tax on Urban Renters: Evidence from New York State’s Homestead Tax Option

Using the American Housing Survey and tax data from New York, we estimate to what degree property taxes are shifted onto renters in the form of higher rents.

Working Paper Number CES-20-43

2018 ACS Mail Materials Test Report

Learn about an evaluation of messaging in the 2018 ACS mail materials and recommendations for improving the messaging.

Family Formation and the Great Recession

This paper studies the impact of the Great Recession on family formation using linked confidential Census survey data.

Working Paper Number CES-20-42

Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty

This paper describes early results from a survey of business expectations, as part of the Census Bureau’s Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS).

Working Paper Number CES-20-41

Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey

This paper looks at firm adoption of various business technologies, including AI and Robotics, by U.S. firms from the 2018 Annual Business Survey.

Working Paper Number CES-20-40

The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes

We study how the demolition of 160 public housing projects—funded by the HOPE VI program—affected the adult labor market outcomes of resident children.

Working Paper Number CES-20-39

Business Dynamics on American Indian Reservations: Evidence from Longitudinal Datasets

We study business dynamics by location on American Indian reservations, and find reservation establishments survive longer than those in comparable counties.

Working Paper Number CES-20-38

Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Models for Small Area Estimation

Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Models for Small Area Estimation

Working Paper Number RRS2020-07

Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce

The paper shows firm software capital investment raises within job-spell worker earnings, and that increases tail off for older workers.

Working Paper Number CES-20-37

The Grandkids Aren't Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure

This paper find that the reductions in parental pollution exposure in utero increase the probability that the children of parents exposed will attend college.

Working Paper Number CES-20-36

The EITC and Intergenerational Mobility

We study how the Earned Income Tax Credit affects the socioeconomic standing of children who grew up in households affected by the policy.

Working Paper Number CES-20-35

An Evaluation of the Gender Wage Gap Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

This study links Census Bureau survey data and work histories from administrative earnings records to decompose the gender wage gap by detailed occupation.

Working Paper Number CES-20-34

The SPM in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

This paper proposes a methodology for estimating the SPM in the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation Panel and subsequent panels.

Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the Redesigned CPS

How the redesign of the CPS ASEC processing system affected estimates of medical expenditures and medical burden.

Working Paper Number 2020-18

Testing of the 2017 School Crime Supplement

Testing of new and revised questions for the School Crime Supplement, focusing on bullying.

Working Paper Number rsm2020-07

Final Report: Economic Census Synthetic Data Project Research Team

This is the final report from the cross-directorate team.

Working Paper Number ADEP-WP-2020-05