Dear DAE Members, There will be an NBER Cohort Studies Data Users Conference on Friday, December 11, 2015 in 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 or your students are interested, NBER can send an official invite but to get one anyone interested needs to sign up by Sept 15 at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bJROUrIBJ1vXaMX-fUsOi1IGJXUmIglx_v0Wr4ReUSs/viewform
The program will be as follows:
Dora Costa (UCLA), Welcome and Introduction
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 Womens), 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
Dora L. Costa
Professor of Economics
UCLA Department of Economics
9272 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477
Tel: 310-825-4249
Fax: 310-825-9528
costa_at_econ.ucla.edu<mailto:costa_at_econ.ucla.edu>
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/costa/
Received on Thu Jul 30 2015 - 14:52:56 EDT
