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Working Paper

2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results

May 13, 2022

This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.

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Working Paper

Effects of Monetary Incentives on Earnings Non-Response in the SIPP

April 2022

This paper exploits a multi-wave random monetary incentive experiment for the SIPP 2014 panel to examine the effect of incentives on earnings non-response.

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Working Paper

2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results

April 15, 2022

This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.

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Working Paper

Self-Employment Status: Imputations, Implications, and Improvements

March 31, 2022

A paper that examines the quality of self-employment imputation in Census surveys.

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Working Paper

Addressing Nonresponse Bias in the ACS Using Administrative Data

November 30, 2021

Learn how the pandemic disrupted ACS data collection in 2020 and why the 2020 ACS 1-year estimates will be released as an experimental product.

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Working Paper

Evaluating Wealth Data in Wave 4 of the Redesigned 2014 SIPP

May 17, 2021

This paper supports the careful use of SIPP data by researchers by examining how changes to the 2014 SIPP affected wealth data quality over the Panel.

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Working Paper

Student Debt Discourages Young Workers from Becoming Self-Employed

September 30, 2020

This paper examines the relationship between student debt and self-employment for young adults using the SIPP and Administrative Records.

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Working Paper

SIPP Administrative Data Survey Weights

June 26, 2020

This project performs initial research on incorporating administrative data into the weighting algorithm for the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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Working Paper

Where’s Daddy? Challenges in the Measurement of Men’s Fertility

March 20, 2020

We dissect differences in men’s and women’s fertility as represented in the SIPP and argue that these data offer evidence of a “missing man” problem.

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Working Paper

The Foreign-Born Labor Force in the United States, 2016

April 2018

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.

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Working Paper

The Foreign-Born Population from Europe, 2016

April 2018

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.

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Working Paper

Do Imputed Earnings Earn Their Keep?

October 2016

Do Imputed Earnings Earn Their Keep? Evaluating SIPP Earnings and Nonresponse with Administrative Records

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Working Paper

Retirement Income of Women Working Longer

September 2016

Despite women’s increased labor force attachment over the lifecycle, household surveys do not show increases in retirement income for women at older ages.

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Working Paper

A Portrait of Older Persons Working with a Disability

June 24, 2016

A substantial minority of older people with a disability continues to work past 62, yet there is little research on the occupations they work in.

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Working Paper

Characteristics of Recent Immigrants from China, India, and Mexico

March 31, 2016

This poster presents education, labor force, occupation, and household characteristics of the recent immigrants to the U.S.

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Working Paper

Commuting Patterns of Older Workers in the United States, 2008-2012

March 2016

This paper describes commuting patterns of older workers in the United States, based on data from the 5-year 2008-2012 American Community Survey (ACS).

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Working Paper

What are the Ages of the Oldest and Youngest Employees?

December 2014

This research will look at the age distribution of the occupations of employed United States residents aged 16 and over by age group.

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Working Paper

Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing

September 2014

Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes.

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Working Paper

Employment Transitions among the Self-Employed

August 01, 2014

Entrepreneurs base their decision to start a business on a range of factors, from age, education and assets to macroeconomic conditions.

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Working Paper

How long do early career decisions follow women?

May 03, 2014

The impact of industry and firm size history on the gender and motherhood wage gaps.

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Working Paper

Fathers, Children, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

April 30, 2014

Documents the tendency of fathers in the U.S. to share employers with their sons and daughters.

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Working Paper

Estimating the Duration Dependence of Occupational Spells

November 21, 2013

Employs a mixed proportional hazard model to estimate the effect of occupational tenure on the probability of an occupational change.

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Working Paper

How Do Professional Licensing Regulations Affect Practictioners?

June 05, 2013

Examines the relationship between professional licensing policy and training.

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Working Paper

Who Opts Out?

February 01, 2013

The paper addresses the lack of diversity in the opt-out discussion by comparing the prevalence of options among Asian, Black, Hispanic and White mothers.

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Working Paper

SIPP Work Experience and Earnings Associations

2013

This paper focuses on the earnings of individuals based on years of experience.

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Working Paper

The Impact of a Mother' s Decision to Work

November 2012

Do children with stay-at-home mothers have higher adult earnings or more labor force experience by a given age?

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Working Paper

Marital Homogamy and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession

2012

Examines whether those employed/formerly employed in occupations that were hard‐hit by the recession were more likely to have employed partners after recession.

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Working Paper

Evaluation of the 2008 ACS Employment Status Question Change

March 15, 2012

For the 2008 ACS, changes were made to the questionnaire that modified and improved existing questions for several subject areas.

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Working Paper

Changing Levels of Spousal Education and Labor Force Supply

March 2012

The purpose of this paper is to describe the labor force behavior of married couples where the woman is more educated than her husband.

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Working Paper

Effects of Recall Period on Reported Job and Program Participation

2012

We will look at the effect of the recall period on the reported job duration and duration of program participation (in particular SNAP or WIC participation).

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Working Paper

Comparison of ACS and CPS Data on Employment Status

December 2011

This report compares national and state employment status estimates based on data from the ACS with those based on data from the CPS.

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Working Paper

The Impact of the 2007-2009 Recession on Mothers’ Employment

November 2011

This recession has been particularly severe for men and women, as they are both experiencing unprecedented levels of long-term unemployment.

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Working Paper

Evolving Labor Force Outcomes for Married Couples

March 2011

This paper seeks to study the changes in labor market outcomes among married couples based on their level of education relative to their spouse.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Performance of the Working Poor

2011

This study uses ten waves of the 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data to analyze the labor market performance of the working poor.

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Working Paper

Job Retention During Two Recessions

2010

The amount of economic activity in the United States has fluctuated widely over the past decade.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Performance of the Working Poor

2010

This study uses ten waves of SIPP to analyze labor market performance of those employed at the bottom of the labor market during a period of economic expansion.

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