John Abowd Honored with 2016 Julius Shiskin Award

摘要

John M. Abowd, Edmund Ezra Day Professor at Cornell University and associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau, has been selected to receive the 2016 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics. The award recognizes original and unusually important contributions in the development of economic statistics or in the use of statistics in interpreting the economy. Abowd is recognized for designing and implementing disclosure avoidance techniques that enable federal statistical agencies to greatly expand the availability of their data while preserving respondents' confidentiality and for his leadership at Cornell in providing access to these data over the internet. He is also recognized for developing econometric and statistical techniques to conduct labor market analysis.