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Federal Statistical Research Data Centers are partnerships between federal statistical agencies and leading research institutions. They are secure facilities providing authorized access to restricted-use microdata for statistical purposes only. The RDCs provide a secure Census Bureau environment where researchers may have limited access to non-public demographic, economic, and public health microdata, with appropriate safeguards to protect data confidentiality.
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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.