Linking Historical Data Sources for Small Populations
Organized by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Randall Akee, and Emilia Simeonova
Supported by the National Institute on Aging
March 21, 2025
NBER, 2nd floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 21
8:00am
Breakfast
8:30am
Welcome
9:00 am

Advancing the Frontier for Linking Subgroups in US Census Records

Adrian Haws, Cornell University
Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
9:45 am

Our Crowd? Intra-Ethnic Frictions in Immigrant Assimilation

Sara Benetti, University of British Columbia
Elijah Locke, Boston University
Ross Mattheis, Harvard University
10:10am
Break
10:20 am

Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach

Christian M. Dahl, University of Southern Denmark
"Sam" Il Myoung Hwang, University of British Columbia
Torben SD. Johansen, University of Southern Denmark
Munir Squires, University of British Columbia
11:05 am

The lives of Japanese-Americans in the World War II era (slides)

Naomi H. Thyden Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota
11:25 am

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Lena Greska, University of Munich
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
12:00pm

Lunch and Keynote

Trent Alexander, ICPSR Michigan
Katie Genadek, US Census Bureau
1:05 pm

A New Algorithm to Efficiently Match U.S. Census Records and Balance Representativity with Match Quality

Eric SM. Protzer, Harvard University
Sultan Orazbayev, Harvard University
Andres Gomez-Lievano Matte Hartog, Harvard University
Frank Neffke, Complexity Science Hub
1:50 pm

The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: Evidence from Land Records in Mecklenburg County, NC

Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
2:20 pm

Indexing Cards: Linking FHA and VA Borrowers to the Census

Katherine A. Thomas, New York University
Wenfei Xu, Cornell University
Thomas Storrs, University of Virginia
Jacob W. Faber, New York University
2:45pm
Break
3:05 pm

Fine-Tunable Historical Record Linkage: A Twin Neural Network Approach

James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
3:50 pm

Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage

Hannah M. Postel, Duke University
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Yale University and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
4:15pm
Adjourn