Lars Vilhuber
I am a research professor in the Economics Department of Cornell University, and the Executive Director of the Labor Dynamics Institute there.
My interests lie in labor economics, data privacy, confidentiality, and dissemination, and reproducibility, open science, and research transparency (see my research statement). My CV has a (mostly) complete list of my publications and working papers.
Since 2018, I am the American Economic Association’s Data Editor. I chair the Scientific Committee of CASD, the French secure data center system.
I was also previously Co-Chair, Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative at J-PAL. At the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, I was the Managing (executive) Editor from 2018-2024. I wrapped up my tenure on the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality as chair in 2021, having been a member since 2016. For other past activities, see my CV
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Abowd, Vilhuber Win 2026 PET Award — ILR School news on the Caspar Bowden PET Award for work on reconstruction from the 2010 Census. |
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| Jul 13, 2026 | Vilhuber weighs in on Commerce memo rolling back privacy protections — Talking Points Memo on the Commerce Department memo barring the Census Bureau’s differential privacy protections. |
| Aug 29, 2019 | Lars Vilhuber Spearheads Policy Change at AEA — ILR School news on the AEA’s revised data and code availability policy. |
| Jul 30, 2017 | NSF-Census Research Network honored with Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award from American Statistical Association BALTIMORE, MD – The National Science Founda- tion-Census Research Network (NCRN), a node of which has been hosted at Cornell University for the past six years, has been awarded the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award. The award recognizes excellence in collaboration between academe, industry, and government that results in significant contributions to statistics with applications to real-world problems. The award was announced at the ASA’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, MD, on July 30, 2017. The NCRN is composed of nodes at eight universities (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado joint with the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, Duke University joint with the National Institute of Statistical Science, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Northwestern University) and the United States Census Bureau, and was established in 2011 to provide support for a set of research nodes, staffed by teams of researchers conducting interdisciplinary research and educational activities on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader research community and to the federal statistical system, particularly the U.S. Census Bureau. The Coordinating Office for the NCRN, created in 2012 and managed by Cornell University and Duke/NISS, organized conferences and workshops, compiled the NCRN newsletter, and served as the primary marketing mechanism for NCRN public forums and work products. The NCRN tackled “challenging issues that could not have been addressed so productively by either academic or government researchers acting on their own,” said Prof. Sarah Nusser, Vice-President for Research at Iowa State University, and Dr. Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, noted that based on her own observation, “the collaboration has been highly successful.” For more information, see the NCRN Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 4. |