New Economic & Social Science Research Published in the CES Working Paper Series

Sixteen working papers were published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the third quarter of 2023. The CES Working Paper Series features research in economics and other social sciences, by U.S. Census Bureau and FSRDC researchers, using restricted-use Census Bureau microdata:

• Technology Lock-In and Costs of Delayed Climate Policy
  Jonathan T. Hawkins-Pierot and Katherine R. H. Wagner
• The Local Origins of Business Formation
  Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger, and Veronika Penciakova
• Unionization, Employer Opposition, and Establishment Closure
  Sean Wang and Samuel Young
• Access to Financing and Racial Pay Gap Inside Firms
  Janet Gao, Wenting Ma, and Qiping Xu
• Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
  Robert Collinson, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas Mader, Davin Reed, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Winnie van Dijk
• The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains
  Teresa C. Fort
• Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
  Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe
• Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach
  David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi
• Labor Market Segmentation and the Distribution of Income: New Evidence from Internal Census Bureau Data
  Ellis Scharfenaker and Markus P. A. Schneider
• Noncitizen Coverage and Its Effects on U.S. Population Statistics
  J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness, and Marta Murray-Close
• Mixed-Effects Methods For Search and Matching Research
  John M. Abowd and Kevin L. McKinney
• When and Why Does Nonresponse Occur? Comparing the Determinants of Initial Unit Nonresponse and Panel Attrition
  Tiffany S. Neman
• Patents, Innovation, and Market Entry
  Dominik Jurek
• Coverage of Children in the American Community Survey Based on California Birth Records
  Gloria G. Aldana
• How Do Health Insurance Costs Affect Firm Labor Composition and Technology Investment?
  Janet Gao, Shan Ge, Lawrence D. W. Schmidt, and Cristina Tello-Trillo
• AI Adoption in America: Who, What, and Where
  Kristina McElheran, J. Frank Li, Erik Brynjolfsson, Zachary Kroff, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, and Nikolas Zolas

The complete CES working paper series can be found at https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/series/ces-wp.html. Any opinions and conclusions in these working papers are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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