John M. Abowd is the Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology, US Census Bureau. He completed his AB in Economics at Notre Dame in 1973 and his PhD in Economics at University of Chicago in 1977 under Arnold Zellner. During his academic career, John has held faculty positions at Princeton, the University of Chicago, and, since 1987 at Cornell University where he is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science. John was trained as a statistician and labor economist, and his economic research has focused on the rigorous empirical evaluation of labor market institutions. In the late 1990s, he began working with the Census Bureau on projects that would end up leveraging administrative and survey records into official statistical products. Through that work, he has developed a research agenda focused on issues necessary to generate those products, including data privacy, synthetic data, total error analysis, data linkage, and missing data problems, among others.

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John M. Abowd 是美国人口普查局首席科学家兼研究与方法学副主任。他于 1973 年在圣母大学获得经济学学士学位，并于 1977 年在阿诺德·泽尔纳的指导下在芝加哥大学获得经济学博士学位。在他的学术生涯中，约翰曾在普林斯顿大学、芝加哥大学担任教职，并自 1987 年起在康奈尔大学担任经济学、统计学和数据科学的埃德蒙·埃兹拉日名誉教授。约翰接受过统计学家和劳动经济学家的培训，他的经济研究集中在对劳动力市场制度进行严格的实证评估。1990 年代后期，他开始与人口普查局合作，开展最终将行政和调查记录用于官方统计产品的项目。通过那项工作，