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Using Linked Census, Survey, and Administrative Data to Assess Longer-Term Effects of Policy Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief
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... These data would be linked in the Census Bureau's secure data environment to provide researchers and policy analysts a robust, longitudinal national data infrastructure for the study of social welfare and the evaluation of public policy. Hout suggested that the workshop theme could well be: "If we build it, will they come?
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... Explaining the organi- evaluations of this experiment showed few effects on zation of the workshop, he said that the invited speak- economic outcomes, but the reexamination -- which ers represent a broad array of social science research focused on younger children -- showed different results that the workshop steering committee grouped into as the children reached adulthood: a higher percentfour categories: social and economic mobility; health, age going to college and a 30 percent increase in earneducation and the life course; program evaluation ings. Hendren said that an intergenerational panel as and life experiences; and using the AOS cooperatively proposed by the AOS would be of enormous value for with other sources of data.
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... What was really subject to the U.S. Clean Air Act have higher employ- challenging is that those benefits were quickly eroded ment and earnings and lower levels of disability as as children transitioned into both low-quality schools adults than children born in counties not subject to and continued to live in very dangerous, unsupported, the act.1 In discussing barriers, Currie pointed out that environmentally less stable, and less resourced envimost health data are "owned" by states, which vary ronments." She said that she sees environmental insult in their openness to share data and in their technical and environmental repair as fundamentally intergencapabilities to construct usable data structures.
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... On requirements. Other potential uses of the AOS data postsecondary intergenerational mobility, a "big con would be to help in the study design, to use in predicstraint is that there are no comprehensive national data tive modeling, and to help generalize results from the on attendance, attainment, or degrees." She said that study sample to a larger population.
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... The researchers now plan to link to data the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult from the real estate Website Zillow and the SSA. Health (Add Health)
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... Bailey said they would like to harness ships between programs, and measuring the effect of a variety of data relating to birth-family characteristics policies. For example, one study addressed the reasons and to obtain economic and demographic outcomes that program participants become "disconnected" from census data.
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... said, is that there is a lot of work going on using state data on health and education. The AOS will not get STATISTICAL CHALLENGES comparable data from all the states, but these stateStephen Fienberg (Department of Statistics, Carnegie based studies are all asking the same questions: How Mellon University; member, standing committee)
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... 2016. Using Linked Census, Survey, and Administrative Data to Assess the Longer-Term Effects of Policy: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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Key Terms

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  • social mobility
  • standing committee
  • opportunity study
  • american opportunity

  • state data
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  • census data
  • life course
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  • workshop steering
  • economic mobility
  • educational data
  • tax data
  • primary data

  • secure data
  • data security
  • usable data
  • share data
  • education data

  • social policy
  • life health
  • wisconsin state
  • longitudinal study
  • survey research

  • administrative sources
  • life experiences
  • using linked
  • linked census
  • children born


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