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Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns

[Symposium: Privacy Protection and Government Data]

By Claire McKay Bowen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The data privacy community generally agrees that government data should be more widely accessible, especially being of the people (data collected about them), by the people (collected and supported using taxpayer dollars), and for the people (providing pu...

When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed

[Symposium: Privacy Protection and Government Data]

By Steven Ruggles

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The US Census Bureau implemented a new disclosure control strategy for the 2020 Census that adds deliberate error to every population statistic for every geographic unit smaller than a state, including metropolitan areas, cities, and counties. This arti...

The Economic Constitution of the United States

[Symposium: How Research Informs Policy Analysis]

By Cass R. Sunstein

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The United States has an Economic Constitution, governing federal regulation, and explaining how to conduct regulatory impact analysis, with reference to quantification and monetization of the costs and benefits of proposed and final regulations. Known as...

How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress

[Symposium: How Research Informs Policy Analysis]

By Staff of the Congressional Budget Office

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The US Congress uses economic and budgetary projections, cost estimates for proposed legislation, and other analyses provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as part of its legislative process. CBO makes assessments based on an understanding of f...

Philanthropic Cause Prioritization

[Symposium: How Research Informs Policy Analysis]

By Emily Oehlsen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

Many foundations decide how much and where to give based on their founders' personal precommitments to specific issues, geographies, and/or institutions. If a grantmaking organization instead wanted to select problems based on a general measure of impac...

The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge Curve Shifts

[Symposium: Labor Market and Macroeconomics]

By Gadi Barlevy, R. Jason Faberman, Bart Hobijn, and Ayşegül Şahin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

We discuss how the relative importance of factors that contribute to movements of the US Beveridge curve has changed from 1959 to 2023. We review these factors in the context of a simple flow analogy used to capture the main insights of search and match...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020

By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres

American Economic Review: Insights

We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born...