Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics

The LEHD program maintains an active research program oriented on the use of longitudinally linked employer-employee data. This includes activities such as developing new prototypes for data products, research comparing administrative and survey data, and working to expand use of administrative data in the federal statistical system. LEHD economists share their research at academic conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly outlets.

Research using LEHD microdata is also carried out by qualified academic researchers under approved projects using a secure network of Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs). Please use the following link to view more information on accessing LEHD data through the FSRDCs. A detailed set of technical documents describing the available dataset is available in the LEHD Snapshot documentation.

Recent Working Papers

The following set of working papers highlight recent research of LEHD staff and FSRDC researchers using LEHD data. Older working papers can be found in the CES discussion paper series . Prior to 2008, a separate LEHD Technical Paper series was maintained. To further explore research containing LEHD data, see CREAT, a data tool to analyze, categorize, and sort the economic research contained in the Center for Economic Studies (CES) working paper series.

• Re-assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
  David Card; Jesse Rothstein; Moises Yi (25-23 )
  


• Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets
  Enrico Moretti; Moises Yi (25-22 )
  


• Revisions to the LEHD Establishment Imputation Procedure and Applications to Administrative Job Frame
  Lee Tucker; Moises Yi; Filip Babalievsky; Hubert P. Janicki; Stephen R. Tibbets; Lawrence Warren (24-51 )
  


• Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics
  Kevin L. McKinney; John M. Abowd (24-48 )
  


• Driving the Gig Economy
  Katharine G. Abraham; John C. Haltiwanger; Claire Hou; Kristin Sandusky; James R. Spletzer (24-42 )
  


• Contrasting the Local and National Demographic Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks
  Richard K. Mansfield (24-36 )
  


• Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?
  Ariel J. Binder; Amanda Eng; Kendall Houghton; Andrew Foote (23-61 )
  


• Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach
  David Card; Jesse Rothstein; Moises Yi (23-40 )
  


• The Gender Pay Gap and Its Determinants Across the Human Capital Distribution
  Ariel J. Binder; Amanda Eng; Kendall Houghton; Andrew Foote (23-31 )
  


• Estimating the U.S. Citizen Voting-Age Population (CVAP) Using Blended Survey Data, Administrative Record Data, and Modeling: Technical Report
  J. David Brown; Genevieve Denoeux; Misty L. Heggeness; Carl Lieberman; Lauren Medina; Marta Murray-Close; Danielle H. Sandler; Joseph L. Schafer; Matthew Spence; Lawrence Warren; Moises Yi (23-21 )
  

Meet the Economists

• Filip Babalievsky , Ph.D., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Andrew Foote , Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Henry Hyatt , Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Hubert Janicki , Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Kevin McKinney , Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
• Cody Orr , Ph.D., Michigan State University
• Kristin Sandusky, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Lee Tucker , Ph.D., Boston University
• Larry Warren , Ph.D., University of Iowa
• David N. Wasser , Ph.D., Ph.D., Cornell University
• Moises Yi , Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley