Bonus
Dunne, Roberts, and Samuelson’s 1988 paper on firm entry and exit was among the first to use longitudinal business data collected by this agency. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this agency in the Department of Commerce whose surveys of households and businesses include the annual American Community Survey and a comprehensive data-gathering once per decade.
ANSWER: United States Census Bureau [or Bureau of the Census; or USCB]
[10m] Many Census Bureau releases have been published in an easy-to-use format alongside other information on this digital repository maintained by the St. Louis Fed. It has an acronymic name.
ANSWER: FRED [or Federal Reserve Economic Data; accept fred.stlouisfed.org]
[10h] Steven Ruggles of the Minnesota Population Center directs this set of projects, which store and harmonize census data from dozens of countries, as well as health surveys and “Time Use” surveys of daily activity.
ANSWER: IPUMS (“IPP-umz”) [or Integrated Public Use Microdata Series]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago B | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Florida | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia State | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Iowa State | Toronto C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| LSE | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU | Yale | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Ohio State | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL B | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Winona State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 15.42 | 96% | 50% | 8% |