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Biographical Data
John M. Abowd is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Industrial and
Labor Relations and Professor of Information Science at Cornell
University, Director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic
Research (CISER), Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the United
States Census Bureau, Research Associate at the National Bureau
of Economic Research (NBER, Cambridge, MA), Research Affiliate at
the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, Paris,
France), and Research Fellow at IZA (Institute for Labor Economics,
Bonn, Germany). He has taught and done research at Cornell University
since 1987, including seven years on the faculty of the Johnson
Graduate School of Management. Professor Abowd’s current research
focuses on the creation and use of linked, longitudinal data on
employees and employers. In his work at the Census Bureau he provides
scientific leadership for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
Program, which produces research and public-use data integrating
demographic surveys, economic surveys, and administrative data.
The LEHD Program’s public use data products include the Quarterly
Workforce Indicators (http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/index.html),
the most detailed time series data produced on the demographic characteristics
of local labor markets and OnTheMap (http://lehdmap2.did.census.gov/),
a user-driven mapping tool for studying work-related commuting patterns.
His original and ongoing research on integrated labor market data
is done in collaboration with the Institut National de la Statistique
et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE), the French national statistical
institute. As a part if the Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences
Networks Theme Project (2005-2008 “Getting Connected: Social
Science in the Age of Networks”), he is studying the network
structure of employment and wages as employer and worker connections
evolve over time. Prof. Abowd’s other research interests include
statistical methods for confidentiality protection of micro data;
international comparisons of labor market outcomes; executive compensation,
again, with a focus on international comparisons; bargaining and
other wage-setting institutions; and the econometric tools of labor
market analysis. Prof. Abowd is currently the Principal Investigator
or Co-Principal Investigator for multiyear grants and contracts
from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on
Aging, and the U.S. Census Bureau. He has published articles in
the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics
and Statistics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal
of the American Statistical Association, and other major economics
and statistics journals. Prof. Abowd was on the faculty at Princeton
University, the University of Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology before coming to Cornell. When he is not traveling
to Washington and Paris for his research program, he enjoys polishing
his French and playing many different sports.
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