The purpose of our working paper series is to highlight the population-related research of MPC members. All papers have completed a review process prior to the posting in the Working Paper Series, but full responsibility for the content of the paper remains with the author(s). Comments from readers are welcomed and should be sent directly to the author(s). To submit a paper to this series, please email it as a Word document to mpc@umn.edu.
2024
- #2024-02 Identifying Matrilineal Kin Networks in the United States 1900-1940
by Matt A. Nelson - #2024-01 Bricks without Straw: The use of linked census data to estimate child mortality in the pre-registration era of the United States
by J David Hacker and Jonas Helgertz
2023
- #2023-03 Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History
by James Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz, and Joseph Price - #2023-02 Racial/Ethnic Differences in Social Contact Patterns and Implications for COVID-19
by Audrey Dorélien and Ashwini Shridhar - #2023-01 Association of household and neighborhood contests and hair cortisol among adolescents from low-income Mexican immigrant families
by Ka I Ip, Wen Wen, Lester Sim, Shanting Chen, and Su Yeong Kim
2022
- #2022-04 Time is on their side? A duration analysis of U.S. immigration court decisions
by Christopher Levesque - #2022-03 National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT) Methodology Report
by Jenny Marlar, Claire M. Kamp Dush, Wendy D. Manning, Miranda N. Berrigan, Alexandra M. VanBergen, Dato Tsabutashvili, Manas Chattopadhyay, Angelina Theodorou - #2022-02 Building New Bridges: Developing and Disseminating a Simplified Race/Ethnicity Measure for Working with Complex or Contradictory Race Data
by Carolyn A. Liebler
Cross posted as IPUMS Working Paper No. 2022-02 - #2022-01 Navigating COVID-19 Disruption in U.S. Time Diary Data
by Sarah Flood, Katie Genadek, Kelsey Drotning, and Liana Sayer
Cross posted as IPUMS Working Paper No. 2022-01
2021
- #2021-05 Research Note on Linking CPS ASEC Files
José D. Pacas, Renae Rodgers - #2021-04 Unraveling Geographic Complexities in the Current Population Survey
by David Van Riper, Sarah Flood, and Finn Roberts
Cross posted as IPUMS Working Paper No. 2021-02 and LCC Working Paper No. 2021-01 - #2021-03 Immigrant Legal Status among Essential Frontline Workers in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Ryan Allen, José D. Pacas, and Zoe Martens - #2021-02 Challenges of Designing and Implementing Three Sampling Frames Targeting Children in Tanzania and Nepal: Proportional Stratified, Multi-Stage, and Geographically Dispersed Sampling Techniques
Anna Bolgrien and Deborah Levison - #2021-01 The Role of Chance in the Census Bureau Database Reconstruction Experiment, Version 2
Steven Ruggles and David Van Riper
2020
- #2020-11 City Health Departments, Public Expenditures, and Urban Mortality over 1910-1940
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field - #2020-10 Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Courtney Boen, James Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz, Elaine Hernandez, and Christopher Muller - #2020-09 Did the Urban Mortality Penalty Disappear? Revisiting the Early Twentieth Century’s Urban-Rural Mortality Convergence
by James Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field - #2020-08 Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Minnesota
by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sarah Garcia, Jonathon P. Leider, Christopher Robertson, and Rebecca Wurtz - #2020-07 In a Stationary Population, the Average Lifespan of the Living Is a Length-biased Life Expectancy, Version 2
by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Dennis Feehan - #2020-06 How Do Populations Aggregate?
by Dennis Feehan and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field - #2020-05 Analyzing the Demographic, Spatial, and Temporal Factors Influencing Social Contact Patterns in the U.S. and Implications for Infectious Disease Spread
by Audrey Dorelien, Aparna Ramen, and Isabella Swanson - #2020-04 U.S. Racial Inequality May Be as Deadly as COVID-19, Version 2
by Elizabeth Wrigley Field - #2020-03 Early Fertility Decline in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses Using New County-level and Individual-level Census Data
by Michael R. Haines, J. David Hacker, and Matthew Jaremski - #2020-02 User Beware: Concerning Findings from Recent U.S. Internal Revenue Service Migration Data
by Jack DeWaard, Matthew Hauer, Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J. Curtis, Stephan Whitaker, Kathryn McConnell, Kobie Price, and David Egan-Robertson - #2020-01 Implications of Measurement: Comparing ATUS Estimates of Physical Activity to NHANES
by Rachelle Hill, Sarah Flood, and Kari Williams
2019
- #2019-07 Opening the Front Door: Household Composition as a Link Between Asian American Identities and Histories
by Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla and Carolyn A. Liebler - #2019-06 Unequally Insecure: Rising Black/White Disparities in Job Displacement, 1981-2017, Version 2
by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Nathan Seltzer - #2019-05 Across the Rural-Urban Universe: Two Continuous Indices of Urbanization for U.S. Census Microdata, Version 2
by Jonathan Schroeder and José Pacas - #2019-04 A More Inclusive Approach to Identifying Same-Sex Cohabiters in the American Time Use Survey
by Sarah M. Flood and Katie Genadek - #2019-03 Same-Sex Couples’ Shared Time in the United States
by Katie Genadek, Sarah M. Flood, and Joan Garcia Roman - #2019-02 Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field - #2019-01 Harmonizing the 2010 and 2002 Census Occupation Coding Schemes
by Kari C.W. Williams and Sarah M. Flood
2018
- #2018-6 Implications of Differential Privacy for Census Bureau Data and Research
by the Task Force on Differential Privacy for Census Data - #2018-5 Internal Migration in the United States: A Comprehensive Comparative Assessment of the Consumer Credit Panel
by Jack DeWaard, Janna E. Johnson, and Stephan D. Whitaker - #2018-4 Domestic Violence, Decision-Making Power and Female Employment in Colombia
by Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez - #2018-3 Correlates and Consequences of American War Casualties in World War I
by Evan Roberts and Alexandra Burda - #2018-2 Capturing the American People: Census Technology and Institutional Change, 1790-2020
by Steven Ruggles and Diana L Magnuson - #2018-1 Does Marital Quality Predict Togetherness? Couples’ Shared Time and Happiness During Encore Adulthood
by Sarah M. Flood, Katie R. Genadek, and Phyllis Moen
2017
- #2017-4 Spatial Manifestations of the “Great American Migration Slowdown”: A Decomposition of Inter-County Migration Rates, 1990-2012
by Jack DeWaard, Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J. Curtis, and Jasmine Trang Ha - #2017-3 Historical Census Record Linkage
by Steven Ruggles, Catherine Fitch, and Evan Roberts - #2017-2 Building a National Longitudinal Research Infrastructure
by Steven Ruggles, Catherine Fitch, and Matthew Sobek - #2017-1 Evaluating the Accuracy of Linked U. S. Census Data: A Household Linking Approach
by Ronald Goeken, Yu Na Lee, Tom Lynch, and Diana Magnuson
2016
- #2016-5 Family Matters: Development of new family interrelationship variables for US IPUMS data projects
by Marina Mileo Gorsuch and Kari Charlotte Wigness Williams - #2016-4 Using the Annual Social and Economic Supplement with Current Population Survey Panels
by Sarah Flood and José Pacas - #2016-3 Harmonized census geography and spatio-temporal analysis: Gender equality and empowerment of women in Africa
by Sula Sarkar, Lara Cleveland, Majory Silisyene, and Matthew Sobek - #2016-2 Inequality of Opportunity in Adult Health in Colombia
by Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez - #2016-1 Parents' time with a partner in cross-national context: A comparison of the US, Spain, and France
by Joan Garcia Roman, Sarah M. Flood, and Katie Genadek
2015
- #2015-3 Patriarchy, Power, and Pay: The Transformation of American Families, 1800–2015
by Steven Ruggles - #2015-2 Trends in Spouses' Shared Time in the United States, 1965-2012
by Katie Genadek, Sarah M. Flood, and Joan Garcia Roman - #2015-1 Trends in Union Instability in the United States, 1980s-2010s
by Steven Ruggles and Sheela Kennedy
2014
- #2014-11 Marriage, Family Systems, and Economic Opportunity in the United States Since 1850
by Steven Ruggles - #2014-10 The Temporal Dynamics and Stability of Black Migration to the South, 1970-2000: New Insights on Old Trends
by Jack DeWaard, Katherine J. Curtis, and Glenn V. Fuguitt - #2014-9 Gender Inequality in the Life Cycle: The Effect of Parenthood on the Division of Unpaid Work
by Marc Ajenjo Cosp and Joan García Román - #2014-8 Field of Study and Earnings Inequality among the Highly Educated: 1993-201
by Joseph A. Ritter and Kristine L. West - #2014-7 Water, Walls and Bicycles: Wealth Index Composition Using Census Microdata
by Rodrigo Lovaton Davila, Aine Seitz McCarthy, Dorothy Gondwe, Phatta Kirdruang, Uttam Sharma - #2014-6 Physical Well-Being and Ethnic Inequality in New Zealand Prisons, 1840-1975
by Kris Inwood, Les Oxley, and Evan Roberts - #2014-5 The Impact of Divorce Legislation on Daily Time Allocation
by Katie R. Genadek - #2014-4 Mass Probation: Toward a More Robust Theory of State Variation in Punishment
by Michelle Phelps - #2014-3 Within-Occupation and Industry Sex, Race, and Educational Differences in Exposures to Workplace Hazards
by Julia A. Rivera Drew and Carrie Henning-Smith - #2014-2 Stage Migration within and through Migration Systems: Implications for Population Recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
by Jack DeWaard, Katherine J. Curtis, and Elizabeth Fussell - #2014-1 The Sensitivity of the Intrinsic Estimator to Coding Schemes: A Comment on Yang, Schulhofer-Wohl, Fu, and Land
by Liying Luo, James Hodges, Christopher Winship, and Daniel Powers
2013
- #2013-14 Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints among Couples
by Sarah Flood and Katie Genadek - #2013-13 Comparisons of At-Home and Breadwinner Parents' Time Use: What matters most, gender or jobs?
by Noelle Chesley and Sarah Flood - #2013-12 Is Timing Everything? Parental Unemployment and Children's Educational Attainment
by Caren Arbeit - #2013-11 Re-Thinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women into Geographically-Dispersed Occupation
by Alan Benson - #2013-10 Economic and Health Outcomes of Unpaid Caregiving: A Framework from the Health and Social Sciences
by Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and Joan M. Griffin - #2013-09 Is School the Best Route to Skills? Returns to Vocational School and Vocational Skills in Egypt
by Caroline Krafft - #2013-08 Methodological Challenges in Studying the Impact of Domestic Violence on Children's Human Capital: An Application to Colombia
by Ragui Assaad, Greta Friedemann-Sanchez and Deborah Levison - #2013-07 Employment for Youth: A Growing Challenge for the Global Community
by Ragui Assaad and Deborah Levison - #2013-06 Racial and Ethnic Differences in Nonwage Compensation
by Joseph A. Ritter - #2013-05 Racial Bias in Traffic Stops: Tests of a Unified Model of Stops and Searches
by Joseph A. Ritter - #2013-04 Big Microdata for Population Research
by Steven Ruggles - #2013-03 Age Heaping and Cancer Rate Estimation in Nigeria
by Benjamin J.S. al-Haddad, Elima Jedy-Agba, Emmanual Oga, and Clement Adebamowo - #2013-02 Making Full Use of the Longitudinal Design of the Current Population Survey: Methods for Linking Records across 16 Months
by Julia A. Rivera Drew, Sarah Flood, and John Robert Warren - #2013-01 Breaking up is Hard to Count: The Rise of Divorce and Cohabitation Instability in the United States
by Sheela Kennedy and Steven Ruggles
2012
- #2012-01 Children's Economic Well-Being During the Great Recession
by Sheela Kennedy, Catherine A. Fitch, and Matt A. Nelson
2011
- #2011-01 Drawing Statistical Inferences from International Census Data
by Lara L. Cleveland, Michael Davern, Steven Ruggles
2010
- #2010-02 The Whole Village Project: A Platform for Evaluating Rural Development Projects
by Joseph A. Ritter, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Kari Hartwig, Susan James, Deborah Levison, Esther Ngadaya and Craig Packer - #2010-01 Urban Form and Family-Engaged Active Leisure: Impact Assessment Using the Census Data and Nighttime Satelite Images
by Yingling Fan
2009
- #2009-02 The Development of Family Interrelationship Variables for International Census Data
by Matthew Sobek and Sheela Kennedy - #2009-01 Child Domestic Servants in Latin America: Numbers, Trends and Education
by Deborah Levison and Anna Langer
2008
- #2008-05 Immigration, Suburbia, and the Politics of Population in US Metropolitan Areas
by Kyle Walker - #2008-04 Residential Segregation and Labor-Market Outcomes: The Importance of Race, Gender and Marital Status
by Jenny B. Wahl - #2008-03 Youth Placed Out-of-Home for Behavioral Reasons: An Analysis of Characteristics, Type of Placements, and Length of Stay
by Misty Heggeness and Elizabeth Davis - #2008-02 Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective
by Steven Ruggles - #2008-01 Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries
by Steven Ruggles and Misty Heggeness
2007
- #2007-05 Intermittent Child Employment and Its Implications for Estimates of Child Labor
by Deborah Levison, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea - #2007-04 The Effect of Child Work on Schooling: Evidence from Egypt
by Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison and Nadia Zibani - #2007-03 Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
by Ann Meier and Gina Allen - #2007-02 Drawing Statistical Inferences from Historical Census Data
by Michael Davern, Steven Ruggles, Tami Swenson and J. Michael Oakes - #2007-01 Using Cyber-Resources to Build Databases for Social Science Research
by Matthew Sobek, Monty Hindman and Steven Ruggles
2005
- #2005-10 The Effect of Child Work on Schooling: Evidence from Egypt
by Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison, Nadia Zibani - #2005-09 Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Young Adult Union Formation
by Ann Meier, Gina Allen, and Christina Falci - #2005-08 High School Exit Examinations and State-Level Completion and GED Rates, 1973-2000
by Jeanie E. Brand, John Robert Warren, Pascale Carayon and Peter Honnakker - #2005-07 State-Level High School Completion Rates: Concepts, Measures and Trends
by John Robert Warren - #2005-06 Sibling Models of the Role of Job Characteristics in Mediating SES-Health Relationships
by John Robert Warren and Elaine M. Hernandez - #2005-05 Inter-Cohort Trends in Age-Specific Health Inequalities: A Test of the Theory of Fundamental Causes
by John Robert Warren and Elaine M. Hernandez - #2005-04 Continued Interest in the Appalachian Immigrant is not Warranted: Appalachian Out-Migrants in the Larger Southern Exodus, 1940-1980
by J. Trent Alexander - #2005-03 The Rise of Cohabitation in the United States: New Historical Estimates
by Catherine Fitch, Ron Goeken, and Steven Ruggles - #2005-02 Roommates or Families? Access to Housing and the Transition to Non-Marital Cohabitation in Sweden
by Nathanael T. Lauster - #2005-01 Redefining and Measuring Sexual Revolution, with an Example from the IPUMS Census Data 1880-2000
by Nathanael T. Lauster