Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research: Methods, Approaches and their Consequences

Ruobin Gong, V. Joseph Hotz, and Ian M. Schmutte, Organizers

May 16-17, 2024

InterContinental Washington D.C. - The Wharf, 801 Wharf Street SW in Washington D.C.

Thursday, May 16
	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Survey Methodologies
	Differentially Private Population Quantity Estimates via Survey Weight Regularization
	Whose Data Is It Anyway? Flavors of Differential Privacy for Survey Sampling
	Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Total Survey Error
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Synthetic Data and Alternatives
	Select Synthetic Data Generation Methods Toward a Public Use File for a Longitudinal Survey (slides)
	On the Formal Privacy Guarantees of Synthetic Data (Generated without formal Privacy Guarantees) (slides)
	Using Containers to Validate Research on Confidential Data (slides)
	Exploring Improved Access to Individual Income Tax Data for Evidence-Building
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Privacy Compliance
	Adoption of 'Privacy-Preserving' Analytics: Drivers, Designs, & Decoupling
	Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Discussion Session I - Data Governance
	Navigating the Privacy Landscape: Harmonizing Legislative and Public Sector Approaches in the Canadian Context
	Towards a Principled Discussion about Disclosure Avoidance: Identifying the Characteristics of an Ideal, Applied Disclosure Avoidance System (slides)
	The Realities of Disclosure Risks in the Age of Dark Patterns and Big Data
	U.S. Census Data in Economic Research: Adoption, Diffusion and Impact
5:00 pm	Adjourn/Reception
6:00 pm	Dinner
Friday, May 17
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Formal Privacy Techniques
	Differentially Private Linear Regression with Linked Data
	Bayesian Inference Under Differential Privacy: Prior Selection Considerations with Application to Univariate Gaussian Data and Regression
	Benchmarking DP Linear Regression Methods for Statistical Inference
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Utility and Privacy in Design
	Information Design for Differential Privacy
	Estimating Preferences Over Data to Inform Statistical Disclosure Control Decisions
	Screening P-Hackers: Dissemination Noise as Bait
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Discussion Session II
	A Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation SIPP
	Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Managing Privacy and Confidentiality Risks with Blended Data
	Report Highlight
	Open Discussion
2:30 pm	Adjourn