After two years without a Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting in person, we were thrilled to have had PAA in person this year! The conference was held April 6th-9th in Atlanta, Georgia, with a virtual option for those who could not attend in person. We are pleased to report numerous researchers used CenSoc […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of CenSoc WWII Army Enlistment data sets. These data sets link the National Archives’ public release of WWII Army Enlistment Records to mortality data and the 1940 census. What are these data sets? The CenSoc-DMF-Enlistment and CenSoc-Numident-Enlistment files contain WWII-era Army Enlistment data alongside data from […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of CenSoc Version 2.0, which links the 1940 Census to Social Security mortality records. This version uses an improved matching method, the ABE method developed by Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (2012, 2014, 2017, 2020). We implement a standard and conservative variant of this method, allowing researchers […]
The CenSoc team, led by Joshua Goldstein at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce the first public release of CenSoc individual-level administrative data for the study of mortality disparities. The CenSoc project links the 1940 U.S. Census to mortality records from several administrative sources. The first is the Death Master File (CenSoc-DMF), […]
Held on February 10, 2020, 11 AM – 2 PM, held at the Social Science Matrix Conference Room, UC Berkeley.. We had five speed talks: Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) with Santiago Perez (UC Davis): Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach Casey Breen (UC Berkeley): Race and Ethnic Response Changes: Evidence from the Social Security […]
CenSoc team meetings take place once or twice a month on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Demography Department seminar room. Please contact us at censoc@berkeley.edu if you are interested in attending.