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Friday, March 21
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8:00am
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Breakfast
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8:30am
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Welcome
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9:00 am
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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
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9:45 am
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Our Crowd? Intra-Ethnic Frictions in Immigrant Assimilation
Sara Benetti, Vancouver School of Economics, The University of British Columbia
Elijah Locke, Boston University
Ross Mattheis, Harvard University
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10:10am
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Break
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10:20 am
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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
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11:05 am
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The lives of Japanese-Americans in the World War II era
(slides)
Naomi H. Thyden Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota
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11:25 am
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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
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12:00pm
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Lunch and Keynote Trent Alexander, ICPSR Michigan
Katie Genadek, US Census Bureau |
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1:05 pm
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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
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1:50 pm
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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
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2:20 pm
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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
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2:45pm
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Break
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3:05 pm
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Fine-Tunable Historical Record Linkage: A Twin Neural Network Approach
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
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3:50 pm
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Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage
Hannah M. Postel, Duke University
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
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4:15pm
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Adjourn
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