E47 - How to access restricted data with Sarah Miller

The Hidden Curriculum

In this episode, we talk with Sarah Miller about accessing restricted data. Sarah Miller is an associate professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Sarah’s research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health insurance coverage and the effects of income on health and well-being. In 2022, Dr. Miller was awarded the ASHEcon Medal, given by the American Society of Health Economists to an economist aged 40 or younger who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics. She is also a co-editor for the Journal of Public Economics.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.

Alex Hollingsworth is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University.

Henry Morris is our main editor.

Show notes

1. During the episode, we talked about the restricted access data the census has, which can be found on this link: https://www.researchdatagov.org/
2. Sarah also recommends checking out this previously restricted-use Census data that was recently made public: https://joe.cjars.org/
3. Sarah's paper is "Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data," and you can find it here: https://www.nber.org/papers/w30693
4. This is another great link for data inventory from the census: https://www2.census.gov/about/linkage/data-file-inventory.pdf

Recommendations of the week:

1. Sarah recommends playing the game Elden Ring, which can be found on many systems!
2. Sarah's current favorite paper is "Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI"
3. Alex recommends stocking up on water and other goodies before the conference starts!
4. Sebastian's recommendation for the week is to play Alto's Odyssey, a mobile game that helps you relax at night or in moments of anxiety!