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545: Why was Labor Productivity Growth So High during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Role of Labor Composition

Jay Stewart

544: Household Spending Responses to the Economic Impact Payments of 2020: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Jonathan A. Parker, Jake Schild, Laura Erhard and David S. Johnson

543: Producing Quality Adjusted Hospital Price Indexes

Brett Matsumoto

542: Putting the Paycheck Protection Program into Perspective: An Analysis Using Administrative and Survey Data

Michael Dalton

541: 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

540: Consumer Response to Economic Impact Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Role of Subjective Assessments of Well-Being: A View from the U.S. Using a Rapid Response Survey

Thesia Garner and Jake Schild

539: Alternative Capital Asset Depreciation Rates for U.S. Capital and Multifactor Productivity Measures

Michael D. Giandrea, Robert J. Kornfeld, Peter B. Meyer and Susan G. Powers

538: How large are revisions to estimates of quarterly labor productivity growth?

Kendra Asher, John Glaser, Peter B. Meyer, Jay Stewart and Jerin Varghese

537: Experimental CPI for lower and higher income households

Josh Klick and Anya Stockburger

536: The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata

Michael Dalton, Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark A. Loewenstein, David S. Piccone and Anne E. Polivka

535: On the Welfare Costs of Perceptions Biases

Hugh Montag

534: The Problem with Normalizing Preferences that Change in a Cost-of-Living Index

Gregory Kurtzon

533: Location, Location, Structure Type: Rent Divergence within Neighborhoods

Brian Adams and Randal Verbrugge

532: An Update on Employment changes by employer size during the COVID-19 pandemic: a look at the Current Employment Statistics survey microdata

Michael Dalton, Elizabeth Handwerker and Mark A. Loewenstein

531: Changing Tastes Versus Specification Error in Cost-of-Living Measurement

Robert Martin

530: Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences in Productivity

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

529: Unretirement in the 2010s: Prevalence, Determinants, and Outcomes

Kevin Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea and Joseph F. Quinn

528: Differential Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on the Employment and Hours of the Self-employed

Charlene Marie Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

527: Changing the Housing Share of Poverty Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure and Equivalence Scales: Does Consumer Unit Size Matter?

Trudi Renwick and Thesia I. Garner

526: The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration

Dominic Smith and Sergio Ocampo

525: An Alternative Formula for Elementary Producer Price Indexes

Robert Martin, Andy Sadler, Sara Stanley, William Thompson and Jonathan Weinhagen

524: Labor Market Effects of Local Spread of COVID-19

Michael Dalton

523: Who Telecommutes? Where is the Time Saved Spent?

Harley Frazis

522: Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States

Elizabeth Handwerker

521: Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel’s Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

520: Differences across Place and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns: Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Angela Daley, Thesia I. Garner, Shelley Phipps and Eva Sierminska

519: Subjective Equivalence Scales and Income Poverty in Eastern vs Western European Countries

Martina Mysíková, Tomas Zelinsky, Thesia I. Garner and Kamila Fialova

518: Measuring Export Price Movements with Administrative Trade Data

Susan E. Fleck and Don A. Fast

517: Inequality Aversion vs Altruism: Experimental Evidence

Jake Schild

516: WEIGHTED-COVARIANCE FACTOR DECOMPOSITION OF VARMA MODELS APPLIED TO FORECASTING QUARTERLY U.S. REAL GDP AT MONTHLY INTERVALS

Peter Zadrozny and Baoline Chen

515: Revisiting taste change in cost-of-living measurement

Robert Martin

514: A New Vehicles Transaction Price Index: Offsetting the Effects of Price Discrimination and Product Cycle Bias with a Year-Over-Year Index

Brendan Williams and Erick Sager

513: On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages

Matthew Dey and Mark A. Loewenstein

512: Retirement Patterns of the Early and Middle Baby Boomers

Kevin Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea and Joseph F. Quinn

511: Market-Based Inflation Expectations and Inflation Realities: A Comparison of the Treasury Breakeven Inflation (TBI) Rate Curve and the Consumer Price Index before, during, and after the Great Recession

Jonathan Church

510: Alternative Poverty Measurement for the U.S.: Focus on Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds

Thesia I. Garner and Marisa Gudrais

509: Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities

Erick Sager and Olga A. Timoshenko

508: The Double EMG Distribution and Trade Elasticities

Erick Sager and Olga A. Timoshenko

507: Optimal Public Debt with Life Cycle Motives

William Peterman and Erick Sager

506: What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

505: Imported Inputs to U.S. Production and Productivity: Two decades of Evidence

Lucy P. Eldridge and Susan G. Powers

504: Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken?

Stephen Burks and Kristen Monaco

503: Exponential Panel Models with Coefficient Heterogeneity

Robert Martin

502: The Robustness of Conditional Logit for Binary Response Panel Data Models with Serial Correlation

Do Won Kwak, Robert Martin and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

501: Early Adopters of New Supermarket Products

Brian Adams and Hyunchul Kim

500: Training and Jobs Across the Career: An Empirical Investigation

Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein

499: Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term

Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark J. Kutzbach and Anne E. Polivka

498: How Much Does Formula vs. Chaining Matter for a Cost-of-Living Index? The CPI-U vs. the C-CPI-U

Gregory Kurtzon

497: Estimation of Average Marginal Effects in Multiplicative Unobserved Effects Panel Models

Robert Martin

496: Quarterly Benchmarking for the Current Employment Survey

Matthew Dey and Mark A. Loewenstein