New Economic and Social Science Research Published in the CES Working Paper Series

Nine working papers were published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the fourth quarter of 2025. The CES Working Paper Series features research in economics and other social sciences, by U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Statistical Research Data Centers researchers, using restricted-use Census Bureau microdata. A small sample of this recently published research can be found below.

• Parental Death, Inheritance, and Labor Supply in the United States
  Elif Tasar and John Voorheis
• Measurement Matters: Financial Reporting and Productivity
  John M. Barrios, Brian C. Fujiy, Petro Lisowsky, and Michael Minnis
• Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income
  Nicholas J. Ainsworth, Aaron J. Ainsworth, Christopher Cleveland, Leah R. Clark, Quentin Brummet, Emily K. Penner, Jacob Hibel, Andrew Saultz, Michelle Spiegel, Paul Hanselman, and Andrew Penner
• School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income
  Nicholas J. Ainsworth, Christopher Cleveland, Leah R. Clark, Jacob Hibel, Quentin Brummet, Andrew Saultz, Emily K. Penner, Michelle Spiegel, Paul Y. Yoo, Juan Camilo Cristancho, Paul Hanselman, and Andrew Penner
• Food Fight: U.S. Exporters' Adjustments to Russia's 2014 Agricultural Import Ban
  Emek Basker and Fariha Kamal

Opinions and conclusions within these working papers are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Census Bureau.

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