U.S. Census Bureau has approved a Branch Research Data Center at Yale

The U.S. Census Bureau has approved the establishment of a Branch Research Data Center (Branch RDC) at Yale University. This branch, generously funded by the Cowles Foundation, will offer researchers with approved projects access to a wide range of restricted-use data collected by the Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Further information about these datasets as well as the process by which access to them is granted can be found at the website of the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, at https://www.census.gov/ces/. Current Yale graduate students and faculty with approved projects are:

Mihsuru Igami (Economics)
Dan Keniston (Economics)
Amanda Kowalski (Economics)
Sebastian Heise (Economics)
James Levinsohn (School of Management and the Jackson Institute)
Peter K. Schott (School of Management)
Joseph Shapiro (Economics)
Xiao Xu (School of Medicine)