Penn State
The Penn State RDC is a vital resource for research in the fields of economics, demography, statistics, sociology, and health services. It is a unit of the Social Science Research Institute, and jointly supported by the National Science Foundation, College of Liberal Arts, College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, Eberly College of Science, Penn State Libraries, Population Research Institute, Social Science Research Institute, and Office of the Vice President for Research.
Executive Director
Professor Chris Fowler examines the way our choices about geographic boundaries shape the outcomes we are able to observe. He examines neighborhoods, school catchment areas, electoral districts, metropolitan areas, and labor markets with a focus on how these units of observation reflect the distribution of populations in space. Professor Fowler's work focuses in particular on patterns of clustering and dispersal by race and income as these two characteristics can tell us a lot about inequality in economic, education, health, and political outcomes.
Contact Information
Emily Greenman, Ph.D., Administrator
Pennsylvania State University Research Data Center
206 E. Paterno Library
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 301-763-9236
Email: [email protected]
Partner Institutions
The operation of each Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC) is supported by both the Census Bureau and RDC partner institutions. Some RDC partner institutions form consortiums to share the operational costs of the RDC and may waive user fees for their affiliates. Several RDCs have built branch locations to reduce the cost of researchers commuting to the core location while still maintaining the identical stringent information technology and physical security requirements.
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