This partnership between the University of Michigan and SoundRocket offers universities across the nation affordable access to a national campus climate survey measuring sexual misconduct. Piloted at the University of Michigan, the NCCS successfully measured sexual misconduct experiences for evaluating policies and programs with a response rate of 67%. Funding period: 2015-present Collaborators: William G.… Continue reading National Campus Climate Survey

The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, web sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make U.S. census data accessible to policymakers, educators, the media, and informed citizens. SSDAN is directed by demographer William H. Frey and utilizes facilities at the Population Studies… Continue reading Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)

This project will undertake research and software development to improve Census capabilities for entity resolution and record linkage. We will build on ongoing projects linking Census data products to themselves, to external surveys, and to administrative data. We will develop and evaluate approaches that move best practices beyond Fellegi and Sunter (1969) and its implementations, with supervised and unsupervised machine learning to estimate probabilistic models of record linkage and use multiple imputation to propagate uncertainty. We will… Continue reading New Methods to Support Census Bureau Record Linkage

This CJARS project will enable the design of a public web-based reporting system, including the creation of tailored statistical reports for state agencies, and the promotion of user adoption of data usage through a fellowship grant competition. The grant competition will support new external users to apply for and use CJARS data, especially for underrepresented… Continue reading Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: Public Reporting and Fellowship Competition

Michael Mueller-Smith These projects will make use of well-developed research designs, carried out using a remarkable set of administrative records. These records include our maturing Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), detailed IRS tax and federal and state program participation microdata, and a developing infrastructure of harmonized administrative data to study families and their outcomes… Continue reading Reintegration Policies, the Safety Net, and Spillover Impacts of Justice Involvement

Sara Heller This funding supports research manager salary to manage a research project studying the effects of letters of recommendation in the youth labor market. In this project, youth who participated in the 2016 and 2017 New York City Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) are randomly assigned to be eligible to receive a letter of… Continue reading The Effect of Letters of Recommendation in the Youth Labor Market

Erin Cech Collaborative Research: SBP: LGBTQ Professionals in STEM: Workplace Experiences and Navigation Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minority Scientists and Engineers Science and engineering play undeniably influential roles in U.S. security and economic well-being; factors that prevent talented and motivated members of certain groups from succeeding in STEM are of both scholarly and national… Continue reading LGBTQ Professionals in STEM: Workplace Experiences and Navigation Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minority Scientists and Engineers