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20072025
most citedAn Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices

163 citations

43 papers

econ.GN2025

There's Nothing in the Air

Jacob Adenbaum, Fil Babalievsky, William Jungerman

Why do wages grow faster in bigger cities? We use French administrative data to decompose the urban wage growth premium and find that the answer has surprisingly little to do with…

cs.CR2025

Debiasing Functions of Private Statistics in Postprocessing

Flavio Calmon, Elbert Du, Cynthia Dwork +2

Given a differentially private unbiased estimate of a statistic , we wish to obtain unbiased estimates of functions of , such as , solely th…

stat.AP2025★ 2 cited

Toward a Principled Framework for Disclosure Avoidance

Michael B Hawes, Evan M Brassell, Anthony Caruso +16

Responsible disclosure limitation is an iterative exercise in risk assessment and mitigation. From time to time, as disclosure risks grow and evolve and as data users' needs change…

cs.CR2024

Slowly Scaling Per-Record Differential Privacy

Brian Finley, Anthony M Caruso, Justin C Doty +5

We develop formal privacy mechanisms for releasing statistics from data with many outlying values, such as income data. These mechanisms ensure that a per-record differential priva…

stat.ME2024★ 1 cited

Rejection Sampling with Vertical Weighted Strips

Andrew M. Raim, James A. Livsey, Kyle M. Irimata

A number of distributions that arise in statistical applications can be expressed in the form of a weighted density: the product of a base density and a nonnegative weight function…

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

A Simulated Reconstruction and Reidentification Attack on the 2010 U.S. Census

John M. Abowd, Tamara Adams, Robert Ashmead +12

We show that individual, confidential microdata records from the 2010 U.S. Census of Population and Housing can be accurately reconstructed from the published tabular summaries. Ni…