2025 FSRDC Annual Business Meeting and Research Conference: September 25-26
Please mark your calendar for the 2025 Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) Annual Business Meeting and Research Conference. The Business Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 25. The Research Conference will take place the following day (Friday,...
2024 Annual Conference of the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers at the University of Utah
The 2024 Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) Annual Research Conference will be taking place on Friday, September 13, 2024, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. The conference will be a day of concurrent paper sessions and a keynote...
Featured Researcher – Olga Aristova
Olga Aristova is a second-year PhD student in the Economics Department, with an interest in health and development economics. Drawing inspiration from her Eastern European family background and fueled by her undergraduate courses in development economics, she is...
2023 Research Data Center Annual Conference
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. will host the 2023 FSRDC Annual Research Conference on September 22. The call for papers is located...
Center for Economic Studies Dissertation Mentorship Program
The Center for Economic Studies wants to assist doctoral candidates who are actively engaged in dissertation research in economics, sociology, demography, or a related field using Census Bureau microdata at a Research Data Center. Program participants receive two...
Limited Lab Access during COVID19 Pandemic
The Michigan RDC received permission by the UM Office of Research (UMOR) to reopen the MRDC, in a limited capacity and complying with University and State Regulations, beginning Tuesday, July 28, 2020. We are excited to be able to facilitate the continuation of...
Featured Researcher – Sara Zobl
Sara Zobl is a fifth-year PhD student in the sociology department on a National Institute on Aging fellowship and is a Population Studies Center trainee. Sara is also the Michigan RDC’s research assistant, and in that role she has obtained Special Sworn...
2019 Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference, May 17-19, 2019
CAED invites submissions of paper proposals for its 15th conference on research using enterprise microdata to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 17-19, 2019. The conference promotes scientific research using enterprise microdata on a variety of topics...
Featured Researcher – Joelle Abramowitz
Joelle Abramowitz is Co-Director of the Michigan RDC and an Assistant Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She came to ISR in July 2016 after three years at the U.S. Census Bureau where she worked as an economist in the Health and Disability Statistics Branch of the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division. Joelle received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 2013.
Featured Researcher – Isaac Sorkin
Isaac Sorkin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research focuses on labor markets. He received a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.
His job market paper, Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference, exploits the intuitive notion that workers move towards more preferred firms. I use this revealed preference approach combined with a standard search-theoretic model to estimate the value of working at essentially each firm in the United States. This approach imposes sufficient structure to map the 1.5 million by 1.5 million matrix of worker flows across all firms in the economy into estimates of firm value.