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  An Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices 

  Abowd, John M.; Schmutte, Ian M. (2018-08-15)

  Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing this as a resource allocation problem, we ...
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  Encoding Provenance Metadata for Social Science Datasets 

  Lagoze, Carl; Williams, Jeremy; Vilhuber, Lars (Springer, 2013)

  Recording provenance is a key requirement for data-centric scholarship, allowing researchers to evaluate the integrity of source data sets and re- produce, and thereby, validate results. Provenance has become even more ...
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  Modeling Endogenous Mobility in Earnings Determination 

  Abowd, John M.; McKinney, Kevin L.; Schmutte, Ian M. (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2017-01-01)

  We evaluate the bias from endogenous job mobility in fixed-effects estimates of worker- and firm-specific earnings heterogeneity using longitudinally linked employer-employee data from the LEHD infrastructure file system ...
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  Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Confidentiality Protection as Public Goods 

  Abowd, John; Schmutte, Ian M. (2017-04-17)

  We consider the problem of the public release of statistical information about a population–explicitly accounting for the public-good properties of both data accuracy and privacy loss. We first consider the implications ...
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  Recalculating - How Uncertainty in Local Labor Market Definitions Affects Empirical Findings 

  Foote, Andrew; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Vilhuber, Lars (2017-08)

  This paper evaluates the use of commuting zones as a local labor market definition. We revisit Tolbert and Sizer (1996) and demonstrate the sensitivity of definitions to two features of the methodology. We show how these ...

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