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

Ten working papers were published by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the second quarter of 2026. 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:

• Unemployment Insurance Extensions, Labor Market Concentration, and Match Quality
  David N. Wasser
• The Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Business Functions, and Worker Tasks
  Kathryn Bonney, Cory Breaux, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, and Aditya Pande
• Allocating Misallocation: Decomposing Measures of Aggregate Allocative Efficiency
  G. Jacob Blackwood, John Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf
• You’re (not) Hired: Artificial Intelligence and Early Career Hiring in the Quarterly Workforce Indicators
  Lee C. Tucker
• Lands of Opportunity: Differences in the Geography of Wealth and Income Mobility in the United States
  Ariel Binder, Max Risch, and John Voorheis

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

Explore the complete CES working paper series at the link below.

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