Article archive for February, 2009

New features on our website

February 25th, 2009

We have added a ‘tag cloud’ and some relevant third-party information feeds to the sidebar (including the Cornell network status, which hightiights items that may impact access to the VirtualRDC). Please let us know what you think.

Nicer links on this site

February 24th, 2009

We have re-enabled “pretty” links – they had failed in an earlier instantation of this site, and were never turned back on. So now http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/welcome/contact/ works just as well as http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/?p=24.

Society of Labor Economists 14th Annual Meetings

February 20th, 2009
8 May 2009to9 May 2009

SOLE meets in Boston on May 8-9, 2009 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality Protection

February 20th, 2009
31 July 2009

A workshop that will bring together university-based researchers, members of the international official statistical community, and other interested user communities is planned for July 31, 2009, the Friday before the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington DC. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss and critique newly created public-use micro-data files that are based on the concepts of “synthetic data” and “partially synthetic data.”  The workshop will be held at the Census Bureau’s Headquarters in Suitland, MD. [More »]

OnTheMap v3.2 available

February 19th, 2009

OnTheMap data has been updated to v3.2. These data files are provided by the LEHD Program at the U.S. Census Bureau and are now available for download to registered users. To register for access to the data, please request a login for the site by sending an email to virtualrdc@cornell.edu. Registered users can go directly to the download site. [More »]

Bibliography search now available

February 19th, 2009

We have compiled a (hopefully) comprehensive list of publications that received in some form or other support by our grants, and made it accessible at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/biblio/. [More »]

Updating OnTheMap data to v3.2

February 18th, 2009

We will be updating OnTheMap data tonight to v3.2, re-establishing sync with the web application at the Census Bureau. [More »]

43rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association

February 18th, 2009
29 May 2009to31 May 2009

The 43rd Annual Conference of the CEA will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the University of Toronto.

Call for Papers: Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Toronto 2009

February 18th, 2009
20 February 2009

Submissions for the 43rd Annual CEA meetings end on February 20th, 2009. For more information, see http://economics.ca/2009/en/submit.php.

Call for papers EALE conference: Deadline ends

February 18th, 2009
1 March 2009

The call for papers for the 21st annual EALE Conference closes on March 1, 2009 at 23:59 Central European time. For more details, see http://www.eale.nl/Conference2009/Call for Papers.htm