NBER Cohort Studies Data Users Conference

There will be an NBER Cohort Studies Data Users Conference on Friday, December 11, 2015 at the California Center for Population Research (4240A Public Affairs Building), University of California, Los Angeles (all day). Attendance is open to faculty and to graduate students. Thanks to NIH funding, we can pay for lodging and travel (coach fare only, of course). If you are interested, NBER can send an official invite but to get one you need to sign up by using a Google document.

Information : Dora L. Costa, 310-825-4249

Deadline : September 15, 2015

Program

Continental Breakfast (8:30am)

Dora Costa (UCLA), Welcome and Introduction (9:00am)

Evan Roberts (University of Minnesota), Measuring the ANZACs: Crowd-Sourcing a Complete Transcription of WWI Soldiers Through Zooniverse

Christopher Roudiez (NBER), GIS Mapping of 8 Major US Cities, 1860-1930

Noelle Yetter (NBER), From Free-Form Records to Machine Readable Data: The Union Army Project

Sven Wilson (BYU), Sources of Bias in Using Historical Administrative Data: The Union Army Records

Louis Nguyen (Brigham and Women’s), Interpreting Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Medical Records:  The Union Army Surgeons' Reports

Evan Roberts (University of Minnesota), Big Data for Economic and Demographic History: The MPC-Ancestry Complete Count American Census Series

Round Table on Linkage