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22-09: Innovation and Appropriability: Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property

Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe

22-08: Employer Concentration and Labor Force Participation

Anqi Chen, Laura D. Quinby and Gal Wettstein

22-07: The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration

Dominic Smith and Sergio Ocampo

22-06: Mortality in a Multi-State Cohort of Former State Prisoners, 2010-2015

Leticia Fernandez, Sharon Ennis, Sonya R. Porter and Elizabeth Carson

22-05: Can Displaced Labor Be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance

Benjamin Hyman

22-04: Capital Investment and Labor Demand

E Curtis, Daniel G. Garrett, Eric Ohrn, Kevin A. Roberts and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

22-03: The Transformation of Self Employment

Innessa Colaiacovo, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

22-02: Two-sided Search in International Markets

Jonathan Eaton, David Jinkins, James Tybout and Daniel Yi Xu

22-01: Neighborhood Income and Material Hardship in the United States

John Iceland and Claire Kovach

21-38: A Long View of Employment Growth and Firm Dynamics in the United States: Importers vs. Exporters vs. Non-Traders

Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal and Wei Ouyang

21-37: Firm Finances and Responses to Trade Liberalization: Evidence from U.S. Tariffs on China

Avishai Schiff

21-36: Run Effects of Military Service: Evidence from the 911 Attacks

John Anders and Craig Carpenter

21-35: Finding Needles in Haystacks: Multiple-Imputation Record Linkage Using Machine Learning

John Abowd, Joelle Abramowitz, Margaret Levenstein, Kristin McCue, Dhiren Patki, Trivellore Raghunathan, Ann M. Rodgers, Matthew Shapiro, Nada Wasi and Dawn Zinsser

21-34: The Industrial Revolution in Services

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

21-33: The Business Dynamics Statistics: Describing the Evolution of the U.S. Economy from 1978-2019

Christopher Goetz and Martha Stinson

21-32: Location, Location, Location

David Card, Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yi

21-31: Pay, Productivity and Management

Nicholas Bloom, Scott Ohlmacher, Cristina Tello-Trillo and Melanie Wallskog

21-30: Earnings Inequality and Immobility for Hispanics and Asians: An Examination of Variation Across Subgroups

Randall Akee, Sonya R. Porter and Emilia Simeonova

21-29: Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation

Ishan Nath

21-28: Import Competition and Firms’ Internal Networks

Jay Hyun, Ziho Park and Vladimir Smirnyagin

21-27: Incidence and Performance of Spinouts and Incumbent New Ventures: Role of Selection and Redeployability within Parent Firms

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Mariko Sakakibara

21-26: The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research

Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina T. Howell, Elisabeth Perlman and Joseph Staudt

21-25: Developing Content for the Management and Organizational Practices Survey-Hospitals (MOPS-HP)

Alice Zawacki, Scott Ohlmacher and Struther Van Horn

21-24: Small Business Pulse Survey Estimates by Owner Characteristics and Rural/Urban Designation

Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, James Hunt and Shawn Klimek

21-23: Immigration and the Demand for Urban Housing

Miles M. Finney

21-22: How Collateral Affects Small Business Lending: The Role of Lender Specialization

Manasa Gopal

21-21: Productivity Dispersion, Entry, and Growth in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart and Zoltán Wolf

21-20: Leapfrogging the Melting Pot? European Immigrants’ Intergenerational Mobility Across the 20th Century

Kendal Lowrey, Jennifer Van Hook, James D. Bachmeier and Thomas B. Foster

21-19: Comparing Earnings Outcome Differences Between All Graduates and Title IV Graduates

Andrew Foote

21-18: Immigration and Local Business Dynamics: Evidence from U.S. Firms

Parag Mahajan

21-17: A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, David Jinkins, C.J. Krizan and James Tybout

21-16: A Note on the Locational Determinants of the Agricultural Supply Chain

Anders Van Sandt and Craig Carpenter

21-15: Heavy Tailed, but not Zipf: Firm and Establishment Size in the U.S

Illenin Kondo, Logan Lewis and Andrea Stella

21-14: School Discipline and Racial Disparities in Early Adulthood

Miles Davison, Andrew Penner, Emily Penner, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Evan Rose, Yotam Shem-Tov and Paul Yoo

21-13: Combining Rules and Discretion in Economic Development Policy: Evidence on the Impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

21-12: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

21-11: Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, J. David Brown and John Earle

21-10: Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer and Matthew Staiger

21-09: Business Applications as a Leading Economic Indicator?

Jose Asturias, Emin Dinlersoz, John Haltiwanger, Rebecca Hutchinson and Alyson Plumb

21-08: Redesigning the Longitudinal Business Database

Melissa Chow, Teresa C. Fort, Christopher Goetz, Nathan Goldschlag, James Lawrence, Elisabeth Perlman, Martha Stinson and T. Kirk White

21-07: U.S. Long-Term Earnings Outcomes by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Place of Birth

Kevin L. McKinney, John Abowd and Hubert Janicki

21-06: High Frequency Business Dynamics in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster and John Haltiwanger

21-05: Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

21-04: Changes in Metropolitan Area Definition, 1910-2010

Todd Gardner

21-03: Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty

Seth Murray, Danielle Sandler and Matthew Staiger

21-02: Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses and People: Lessons from the Census Bureau’s Experience

Catherine Buffington, Jason Fields and Lucia Foster

21-01: Business Formation: A Tale of Two Recessions

Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger and Veronika Penciakova

20-45: Entrepreneurial Teams: Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth

Francesco D’Acunto, Geoffrey Tate and Liu Yang

20-44: Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States

Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, J. Daniel Kim and Javier Miranda

20-43: The Shifting of the Property Tax on Urban Renters: Evidence from New York State’s Homestead Tax Option

David J. Schwegman and John Yinger