Using Partially Synthetic Data to Replace Suppression in the Business Dynamics Statistics: Early Results

Miranda, Javier; Vilhuber, Lars

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_18

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“…32 These data report MSA-level establishment entry, exit, job creation, and job destruction. We focus on firms with fewer than ten employees and on the subset of data that are not imputed for confidentiality reasons Miranda and Vilhuber (2014). We scale each variable by population (in 100,000).…”

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Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Furman

Nagler

Watzinger

2021

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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How important is access to patent documents for subsequent innovation? We examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent Library system after 1975. Patent libraries provided access to patents before the Internet. We find that after patent library opening, local patenting increases by 8–20 percent relative to similar regions. Additional analyses suggest that disclosure of technical information drives this effect: inventors increasingly take up ideas from outside their region, and the effect is strongest in technologies where patents are more informative. We thus provide evidence that disclosure plays an important role in cumulative innovation. (JEL D83, K11, O31, O34, R11)

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Section: Over Time: Effect Decreases When Patents Become Available On the Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Furman

Nagler

Watzinger

2021

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…29 These data report MSA-level establishment entry, exit, job creation, and job destruction. We focus on firms with fewer than ten employees and on the subset of data that are not imputed for confidentiality reasons Miranda and Vilhuber (2014). We scale each variable by population (in 100,000).…”

Section: Did Patent Libraries Affect Small Businesses?mentioning

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Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Furman

Nagler

Watzinger

2018

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How important is information disclosure through patents for subsequent innovation? Although disclosure is regarded as essential to the functioning of the patent system, legal scholars have expressed considerable skepticism about its value in practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system between 1975 to 1997. Whereas the exclusion rights associated with patents are national in scope, the opening of these patent libraries during the pre-Internet era yielded regional variation in the costs to access the technical information (prior art) disclosed in patent documents. We find that after a patent library opens, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control regions that have Federal Depository Libraries. A number of additional analyses suggest that the disclosure of technical information in the patent documents is the mechanism underlying this boost in patenting: the response to patent libraries is significant and of important magnitude among young companies, library opening induces local inventors to cite more geographically distant and more technologically diverse prior art, and the library boost ceases to be present after the introduction of the Internet. We find that library opening is also associated with an increase in local business formation and job creation, which suggests that the impact of libraries is not limited to patenting outcomes. Taken together, our analyses provide evidence that the information disclosed in patent prior art plays an important role in supporting cumulative innovation.

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“…We have previously assessed the impact of Algorithm 1 (defined below) [21]. Assessing the impact of using multiple implicates as well as identifying acceptable values of Z, p, and n is deferred to future work.…”

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“…2 We leverage the existence of a sophisticated partially synthetic data file the Synthetic LBD [18,11], henceforth SynLBD -in combination with the techniques first expressed in [19] and [20] to replace sensitive cells with tabulations based on synthetic data. A previous paper [21] described early results from the implementation of the simplest algorithm described here. In this version, we refine those algorithms, and present new results.…”

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Using Partially Synthetic Microdata to Protect Sensitive Cells in Business Statistics

Miranda

Vilhuber

2016

SSRN Journal

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Abstract. We describe and analyze a method that blends records from both observed and synthetic microdata into public-use tabulations on establishment statistics. The resulting tables use synthetic data only in potentially sensitive cells. We describe different algorithms, and present preliminary results when applied to the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics and Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database, highlighting accuracy and protection afforded by the method when compared to existing public-use tabulations (with suppressions).

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Using Partially Synthetic Data to Replace Suppression in the Business Dynamics Statistics: Early Results

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

Using Partially Synthetic Microdata to Protect Sensitive Cells in Business Statistics

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