NSF-Census Research Network - Economics

Academic year:

Sep-2012 to May-2013

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Duke University / National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)

Number of students:

INFO7470 - UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DATA

Vilhuber — Wed, 18 May 2016 20:52:38 +0000

Author(s):

Lars Vilhuber

The course is designed to teach students basic and advanced techniques for acquiring and transforming raw information into social and economic data. The 2016 version is particularly aimed at American Ph.D. students who are interested in using public-use and confidential U.S. Census Bureau data, and the confidential data of other American statistical agencies that cooperate with the Census Bureau. We cover the legal, historical, statistical, computing, and social science aspects of the data "production" process. Students will learn some of the statistical procedures necessary to handle the complex linked data sets increasingly available as confidential data, and will apply some of those techniques in class. New ways of accessing restricted access data will be both presented and sometimes tested. Major emphasis is placed on U.S. Census Bureau data that are accessible from the Federal Statistical Research Data Center network, which is adminstered by the Census Bureau on behalf of the collaborating statistical agencies. Graduate students and faculty who are planning to use RDC-based data, or are seriously considering it, should pay particular attention to the lab related to the proposal process. The course will be taught in a mixture of (a) web-based self-paced videos followed by online exercises and in-classroom discussion and additional materials (Sessions 3-8) (b) traditional classroom lectures (Sessions 1-2, 9-14) and labs.

Nodes:

Cornell University

University of Michigan

University of Colorado at Boulder / University of Tennessee

External Link:

Class website

Type:

Graduate Class

Academic year:

Feb-2016 to May-2016

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Number of students:

140

Graduate Training - Michigan - 2015

Vilhuber — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:15:51 +0000

Author(s):

Margaret Levenstein

Michigan NCRN graduate student Aaron Flaaen accepted a position as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Thesis: Flaaen, Aaron. Essays on Multinational Production and the Propagation of Shocks, Department of Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Ph.D., 2015, available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111331
Michigan NCRN graduate student Peter Hudomiet accepted a position as an economist at the Rand Corporation. Thesis: Hudomiet, Peter. Four Essays in Unemployment, Wage Dynamics and Subjective Expectations, Department of Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Ph.D., 2015, available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113598

Nodes:

University of Michigan

Type:

Academic year:

Sep-2014 to Apr-2015

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Number of students:

Graduate Training - Michigan - 2016

Vilhuber — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:14:09 +0000

Author(s):

Margaret Levenstein

Michigan NCRN graduate student Isaac Sorkin has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the economics department at Stanford University.Thesis: Sorkin, Isaac. Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference and Other Essays About Labor Markets, Department of Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Ph.D., 2015, available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/116747.

Nodes:

University of Michigan

Type:

Academic year:

Sep-2015 to Apr-2016

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Number of students:

Undergraduate Training - Cornell - Summer 2015

Vilhuber — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:32:54 +0000

Author(s):

Lars Vilhuber

Undergraduate researchers participated in a scientific replication project (assessing the ability to replicate academic articles in empirical economics journals). The activity was supervised by two graduate students (one of which was NCRN-funded). Undergraudate students also created a CRAN-ready R package around software provided by the Duke node.

Nodes:

Cornell University

External Link:

Project description

Type:

Undergraduate Research

Academic year:

May-2015 to Sep-2015

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Number of students:

Graduate Training - Cornell - 2015-2016

Vilhuber — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:30:28 +0000

Author(s):

Lars Vilhuber

Flavio Stanchi (Economics)
Sylverie Herbert (Economics)

Nodes:

Cornell University

Type:

Academic year:

Sep-2015 to Aug-2016

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Number of students:

Postdoctoral Fellows - Missouri - 2015

nunnelly — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:27:00 +0000

Author(s):

Scott Holan

Matthew Simpson, PhD – Iowa State University (Co-major Economics and Statistics) joined the Missouri Node as a postdoc in August 2015

Nodes:

University of Missouri

Type:

Academic year:

Aug-2015

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Carnegie-Mellon University

Number of students:

Undergraduate training - CMU - 2011-2012

Shelly Hall — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:42:51 +0000

Author(s):

Stephen Fienburg

William Eddy

Currently at Carnegie Mellon:
Nicole Crimi (Statistics),
Kevin Eng (Statistics),
Nick Ettlinger (Statistics),
Joseph Pane (Statistics),
Peter Sadosky (Economics and History)
Emily Furnish (Science and Humanities Scholars; International Relations & Politics)

Alumni:
Brittany Buggs (BS, Statistics (2012); Master’s, Heinz College)
Shannon Gallagher (BS, Mathematical Sciences; currently PhD Statistics)
Daniel In (Master’s in Statistical Practice)
Michael Pane (Master’s in Statistical Practice)
George Volichenko (Master’s in Statistical Practice)
Abbas Zaidi (Master’s in Statistical Practice)
Kairavi Chahal
Dahiana Jimenez
Karn Mishra
Sepideh Mosaferi
Jaime Trujillo
Olga Zubashko

Nodes:

External Link:

CMU Students

Type:

Undergraduate Research

Academic year:

Aug-2011 to May-2012

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Other

Carnegie-Mellon University

Number of students:

Undergraduate training - CMU - 2012-2013

Shelly Hall — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:41:01 +0000

Author(s):

Stephen Fienburg

William Eddy

Nodes:

External Link:

CMU Students

Type:

Undergraduate Research

Academic year:

Aug-2012 to May-2013

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Other

Carnegie-Mellon University

Number of students:

Graduate Training - CMU - 2011-2012

Shelly Hall — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:05:31 +0000

Author(s):

Stephen Fienburg

William Eddy

Current:
Maria Cuellar (Joint PhD program, Statistics and Public Policy)
Shannon Gallagher (PhD, Statistics)
Nicolas Kim (PhD, Statistics)
Samuel Ventura (PhD, Statistics)
Jerzy Wieczorek (PhD, Statistics)
Mauricio Sadinle (PhD, Statistics)
Michael Pane (MSP, Statistics; BS, Economics-Statistics (2013))
Zach Kurtz (PhD, Statistics)
Mikhail Popov (MSP, Statistics)

Alumni:
Laura Brandimarte (PhD, Behavioral Science (2012))
Anne-Sophie Charest (PhD, Statistics (2012), now Universite Laval)
Rob Hall (PhD, joint program, Statistics and Machine Learning (2012); now Etsy, Inc.)

Nodes:

External Link:

CMU Students

Type:

Academic year:

Aug-2011 to May-2012

Primary and cross-listed field of class or course:

Other