Julia Lane Research Articles

Interview With Paul Romer

The 2018 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Paul Romer of New York University speaks with New York University Professor Julia Lane. His work on endogenous technological change transformed our understanding of economic growth by recognizing that ideas—particularly scientific ideas—are neither a private nor a public good. Although he originally argued that the search for ideas is best fostered through competition, his thinking about the best structure has changed over time. In this interview he explains why.

Democracy suffers when government statistics fail

The United States must change how it measures society, argues metrics maven Julia Lane. The United States must change how it measures society, argues metrics maven Julia Lane.

The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2017

The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2017

International Network for Exchanging Experience on Statistical Handling of Granular Data (INEXDA).

The financial crisis of 2007/08 has highlighted the need for using granular data on financial institutions and markets to detect risks and imbalances in the financial sector. Administrative data producers are witnessing a growing need to improve granular data access and sharing. When sharing granular data, data producers face significant legal and technical challenges related to, among others, safeguarding statistical confidentiality.
 To meet the demand of data users and data compilers for (granular) data sharing, the International Network for Exchanging Experience on Statistical Handling of Granular Data (INEXDA) was established on 6 January 2017. Current INEXDA members are the Banco de España, Banca d'Italia, the Banco de Portugal, the Bank of England, the Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the European Central Bank.
 INEXDA provides a platform for administrative data producers to exchange practical experiences on the accessibility of granular data, on metadata as well as on techniques for statistical analysis and data protection. During the INEXDA meeting in Paris, Julia Lane has presented the Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). Following her presentation several INEXDA members expressed interest in obtaining more information about the approach taken by ADRF. This presentation describes the interaction between INEXDA and ADRF.
 The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Deutsche Bundesbank, ADRF, or the INEXDA Network.

Citation for Julia Lane to mark her distinguished fellow award by the New Zealand association of economists

Citation for Julia Lane to mark her distinguished fellow award by the New Zealand association of economists

Perspective: Fix the incentives.

Fostering the connection between science funding and economic growth needs to be based on thoughtful measurement, says Julia Lane.

BIG DATA FOR PUBLIC POLICY: THE QUADRUPLE HELIX

Journal of Policy Analysis and ManagementVolume 35, Issue 3 p. 708-715 Point/Counterpoint BIG DATA FOR PUBLIC POLICY: THE QUADRUPLE HELIX Julia Lane, Julia LaneSearch for more papers by this author Julia Lane, Julia LaneSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 May 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.21921Citations: 14Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume35, Issue3Summer 2016Pages 708-715 RelatedInformation

BIG DATA: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Journal of Policy Analysis and ManagementVolume 35, Issue 3 p. 722-724 Point/Counterpoint BIG DATA: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING Julia Lane, Julia LaneSearch for more papers by this author Julia Lane, Julia LaneSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 May 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.21922Citations: 4Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume35, Issue3Summer 2016Pages 722-724 RelatedInformation

Privacy, big data, and the public good: frameworks for engagement

Part I. Conceptual Framework: Editors' introduction Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender and Helen Nissenbaum 1. Monitoring, datafication, and consent: legal approaches to privacy in the big data context Katherine J. Strandburg 2. Big data's end run around anonymity and consent Solon Barocas and Helen Nissenbaum 3. The economics and behavioral economics of privacy Alessandro Acquisti 4. The legal and regulatory framework: what do the rules say about data analysis? Paul Ohm 5. Enabling reproducibility in big data research: balancing confidentiality and scientific transparency Victoria Stodden Part II. Practical Framework: Editors' introduction Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender and Helen Nissenbaum 6. The value of big data for urban science Steven E. Koonin and Michael J. Holland 7. The new role of cities in creating value Robert Goerge 8. A European perspective Peter Elias 9. Institutional controls: the new deal on data Daniel Greenwood, Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Brian Sweatt, Thomas Hardjono and Alex Pentland 10. The operational framework: engineered controls Carl Landwehr 11. Portable approaches to informed consent and open data John Wilbanks Part III. Statistical Framework: Editors' introduction Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender and Helen Nissenbaum 12. Extracting information from big data Frauke Kreuter and Roger Peng 13. Using statistics to protect privacy Alan F. Karr and Jerome P. Reiter 14. Differential privacy: a cryptographic approach to private data analysis Cynthia Dwork.

Beyond bibliometrics: harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact

Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics -- or altmetrics -- while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship. Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age. ContributorsMayur Amin, Judit Bar-Ilan, Johann Bauer, Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin F. Bowman, Kevin W. Boyack, Blaise Cronin, Ronald Day, Nicola De Bellis, Jonathan Furner, Yves Gingras, Stefanie Haustein, Edwin Henneken, Peter A. Hook, Judith Kamalski, Richard Klavans, Kayvan Kousha, Michael Kurtz, Mark Largent, Julia Lane, Vincent Lariviere, Loet Leydesdorff, Werner Marx, Katherine W. McCain, Margit Palzenberger, Andrew Plume, Jason Priem, Rebecca Rosen, Hermann Schier, Hadas Shema, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Daril Vilhena, Jevin West, Paul Wouters

The big data debate Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good Frameworks for Engagement Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, and Helen Nissenbaum, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 342 pp.

The big data debate <b>Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good Frameworks for Engagement</b> <i>Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, and Helen Nissenbaum, Eds.</i> Cambridge University Press, 2014. 342 pp.

Editor's Notes

Editor's Notes

In This Issue

This issue of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality is built around a single paper by Gerald W. Gates, “How Uncertainty about Privacy and Confidentiality Is Hampering Efforts to More Effectively Use Administrative Records in Producing U.S. National Statistics,” with accompanying discussion by George Duncan, Julia Lane, Jennifer Madans, Kenneth Prewitt, Jerry Reiter, Fritz Scheuren, Alan Zaslavsky, and myself

A Dissenting View from Julia Lane

The topic of the role of privacy and confidentiality in the use of administrative records for statistical purposes is an important one. In providing comments, I will draw extensively from my experience in working with fifty states and six federal agencies in creating the LEHD (Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics) program at the Census Bureau between 1997 (when I started my ASA fellowship) and 2004 (when the program became a fully-fledged Census Bureau program). However, I will also draw on my experience in building the LEED (Linked Employer-Employee Data) program at Statistics New Zealand, as well as my experience working with the data producers from many countries (both statistical agencies and administrative agencies) while in my World Bank consultancy. The final context is my experience with cyberinfrastructure initiatives within the United States, as well as in Europe.

Toward the Activist Classroom

Toward the Activist Classroom Kim Solga In the spring of 2005 I spent several months in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. I was there to be a part of an innovative PhD stream called "Performance as a Public Practice." My colleagues and I worked closely with extraordinary, socially engaged practitioners. We made work of our own and we talked again and again about how, when, and where theatre becomes a force for political and cultural change and when, where, and how it does not. When I returned to Canada to take up my first full time teaching job in September that year, I was full of the theories and practices I had absorbed at UT and determined to implement the ethos of Performance as a Public Practice in my own teaching. My new job was in an English department, in which students were accustomed to calling plays "novels." I knew immediately that by demanding the students learn by doing—by performing, embodying, making personal the very political work we would read together—I could help them to see theatre's potent public strengths. We began (in the wake of Hurricane Katrina) with a simple exercise: what if you were a theatre artist in Houston, in Baton Rouge, or in Nashville, I asked them; how would you muster your resources to help the people of New Orleans? I was amazed at the eager, smart responses—something that continued each week thereafter as students, divided into teams for the term, made outstanding poor theatre and spoke with sensitivity about what they and their peers were accomplishing, for whom, and whether or not it mattered. We were on our way. Six years on, I am now a decorated teacher at my school, something that makes me proud but also makes me laugh. After all, I'm not doing anything that my peers in theatre and drama departments across North America aren't doing; I'm just a queer [End Page 3] presence on a campus where "Theatre" no longer formally exists. I've always known that my students and I do good work, but I've also always known that we're not special. I've been wanting to tap into the teaching and learning knowledge of my fellow theatre and performance teachers for a long time; this issue has grown from my hunger to know not just how my work fits in, but how it could be better, stronger, for the help, advice, and encouraging war stories of my peers. What makes us good teachers? What makes our classrooms collaborative learning spaces? What makes our classrooms safe spaces to try out unsafe ideas? What makes our classrooms places where large-scale change can, in tiny steps, appear to begin? What makes our teaching activist, anyway? How do we—teachers and students—define that term for ourselves? My activist classroom is constantly evolving, and it will be so much richer for my experience of putting this issue of CTR together. For those looking for concrete suggestions to improve their teaching, Julia Lane, James McKinnon, Grahame Renyk, and Jenn Stephenson offer exercises that can be transported straight from these pages into the classroom. Lane considers the natural weave between improv performance and environmental education, and provides simple, excellent exercises from a recent workshop. McKinnon asks us to consider the creativity required to produce a good adaptation, and to use that creativity to help students rethink their capacity to be producers of "real" art. Renyk and Stephenson introduce us to the ICE technique and its capacity to enliven both assessment and assignment design. Learning to teach better isn't just about absorbing new techniques, of course; it's also about listening to the stories that mark us as teachers, for better or worse. Some classroom struggles can seem intractable, and those of us who fight for sexual, racial, and gendered social justice each day know all too well how hard bridging the divide between activist life choices and activist teaching choices can be. Natalie Alvarez and Stephen Johnson both teach the history of blackface performance. They stage here a conversation about the challenges of that work and...

Let's make science metrics more scientific

To capture the essence of good science, stakeholders must combine forces to create an open, sound and consistent system for measuring all the activities that make up academic productivity, says Julia Lane.

The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis, edited by John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I. J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, and Kiljoong Kim

CONTENTS The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis, edited by John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I. J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, and Kiljoong Kim. Review by Joseph Persky 656 Reining in the Competition for Capital, edited by Ann Markusen. Review by Edward Coulson 658 Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets, by Harald Bauder. Review by Oded Stark 660 Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows and Profits, by Anna Nagurney. Review by Terry L. Friesz 663 The Economic Geography of Innovation, edited by Karen R. Polenske. Review by Todd Gabe 664 Economics of Rural Land-Use Change, edited by Kathleen P. Bell, Kevin J. Boyle, and Jonathan Rubin. Review by John F. McDonald ........ 666 Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. Review by Susan L. Cutter 667 Women and Change at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism, edited by Doreen J. Mattingly and Ellen R. Hansen. Review by Chang-Hee Christine Bae 670 Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity, by Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mishinski. Review by Alexander Marre 671 Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America?, by Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane. Review by Mitch Renkow 673 Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy: Theory and Empirics, by Hans Westlund. Review by Howard Stafford and Risto Laulajainen... 675 Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations: Successes and Failures in Real Convergence, edited by Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer. Review by Miguel D. Ramirez 677 Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century, by John Lombard. Review by Kai N. Lee 681 Building Knowledge Regions in North America: Emerging Technology Innovation Poles, by Leonel Corona, Jerome Doutriaux, and Sarfraz A. Milan. Review by Peter L. Stenberg 683 Visualizing the Invisible: Towards an Urban Space, edited by Stephen Read and Camilo Panilla. Review by Ted Rutland 685

Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America, by Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane

Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America, by Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane

Summertime and a Bright Future for Nursing

IT IS SUMMERTIME. For me, this is a time of reflection. To paraphrase Gershwin, the living is easy, the catfish are jumping, and the cotton is high. My two years as NLN president are coming to a close in September, and there is much to celebrate. Across the United States, schools of nursing are seeing record numbers of wonderful students who, as the late Dr. Julia Lane would say, want to be well-educated people who also happen to be nurses. Most important, I am convinced that we can predict a bright future for this wonderful profession. Navigating through the constant whitewater of change, nurse faculty are taking the time to carefully consider the issues of the day and working toward positive action as needed. I want to share with you how a new feature offered by the NLN, Reflection and Dialogue, came about. When she returned to the United States as CEO of the NLN, one of the first things Dr. Beverly Malone observed was the need for a forum where nurse educators could reflect on significant issues affecting nursing education. The first Reflection and Dialogue statement, about the doctor of nursing practice degree, was developed to reflect the views of various members of the NLN Board of Governors. It was posted on the NLN website at www.nln.org/aboutnln/reflection_dialogue/index.htm and attracted the attention of faculty who, in turn, reflected and commented in spirited ways, as nurses do. Their comments are posted as well. I encourage you to join in the dialogue and look out for the second posting. The topic is New York State's proposed legislation on educational advancement in nursing practice. The NLN Ambassador Program, which was launched this past fall, was designed specifically to bring faculty development opportunities to all faculty members. But NLN ambassadors quickly began creating their own space on many faculty meeting agendas. As happens when nurse faculty members talk about what is available, the discussion leads to what needs to be done next. I know that the ambassadors will continue to bring wonderful ideas to the NLN. It is gratifying that nursing is now taking the time to recognize the extraordinary work of nurse faculty. Many faculty are seeking certification as a means of documenting their expertise as nurse educators and are pleased to learn that their educational systems are recognizing their demonstrated accomplishments. Since nurses always count how many there are of anything, there is now at least one certified nurse educator in 48 of the 50 states in the United States. And, within one year of an initial discussion by the NLN Board of Governors of what a great idea an Academy of Nursing Education would be, it is happening. …

Unlocking the information in integrated social data

This paper was prepared for the New Zealand Ministry of Labor Conference on Data Integration and Linked Employer‐Employee Data held March 21–22, 2002. I would like to thank my coauthors Patrick Corbel, Rob Creecy, Bruno Crépon, John Haltiwanger, Francis Kramarz, Julia Lane, Paul Lengermann, David Margolis, Kevin McKinney, Ron Prevost, Sébastien Roux, Kristin Sandusky, Martha Stinson, Lars Vilhuber, and Simon Woodcock from whom I borrowed shamelessly for this presentation. I would also like to thank my Cornell, Census, and CREST colleagues Fredrik Andersson, Gary Benedetto, Chet Bowie, Bahattin Buyuksahin, Karen Conneely, Pat Doyle, Ron Ehrenberg, Nancy Gordon, Cheryl Grim, George Jakubson, Frederick Knickerbocker, Guy LaRoque, Cyr Linonis, Charles McCulloch, Nicole Nestoriak, Sebastien Perez‐Duarte, Jean‐Marc Robin, Marc Roemer, Bryce Stephens, Marty Wells, Bill Winkler, and Laura Zayatz, each of whom contributed substantially to this work. Funding was provided by the US Census Bureau, INSEE/CREST, the National Science Foundation (SES‐9978093 to Cornell University), the National Institute on Aging, the Sloan Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.