Advancing microdata privacy protection: A review of synthetic data methods

J Hu, CMK Bowen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic data generation is a powerful tool for privacy protection when considering public
release of record‐level data files. Initially proposed about three decades ago, it has …

[PDF][PDF] Disclosing Economists' Privacy Perspectives: A Survey of American Economic Association Members' Views on Differential Privacy and the Usability of Noise …

AR Williams, J Snoke, CMK Bowen… - Harvard Data Science …, 2024 - assets.pubpub.org
Policymakers often rely on official statistics and administrative data to make essential public
policy decisions, such as using administrative tax data to broaden our understanding of …

Advancing Microdata Privacy Protection: A Review of Synthetic Data

J Hu, CMK Bowen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00872, 2023 - arxiv.org
Synthetic data generation is a powerful tool for privacy protection when considering public
release of record-level data files. Initially proposed about three decades ago, it has …

Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns

CMK Bowen - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
The data privacy community generally agrees that government data should be more widely
accessible, especially being of the people (data collected about them), by the people …

Synthetic individual income tax data: Methodology, utility, and privacy implications

CMK Bowen, V Bryant, L Burman, J Czajka… - … Conference on Privacy …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The United States Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income (SOI) Division
possesses invaluable administrative tax data from individual income tax returns that could …

Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People

C McKay Bowen - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024 - JSTOR
The data privacy community generally agrees that government data should be more widely
accessible, especially being of the people (data collected about them), by the people …

Three Decades of Tax Analysis, 1992–2022

J Slemrod - National Tax Journal, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article briskly reviews how tax analysis has evolved over the past three decades and
how these changes have been reflected in the National Tax Journal. The focus is on four …

Protecting Privacy and Expanding Access in a Modern Administrative Tax Data System

L Burman, B Johnson, VL Bryant… - National Tax …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Providing access to confidential tax data for research while protecting taxpayers' privacy has
grown increasingly difficult using traditional disclosure control methods. For that reason, we …

But Can You Use It? Design Recommendations for Differentially Private Interactive Systems

L Panavas, J Snoke, E Tyagi, CMK Bowen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Accessing data collected by federal statistical agencies is essential for public policy
research and improving evidence-based decision making, such as evaluating the …

Safe Data Technologies Safely Expanding Access to Administrative Tax Data

C Bowen, LE Burman, R McClelland… - Handbook of Sharing …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collects and curates a remarkable trove of high-quality
tax data drawn from federal tax and information returns on almost every person and …