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25-45: Credit Access in the United States

Trevor J. Bakker, Stefanie DeLuca, Eric A. English, Jamie Fogel, Nathaniel Hendren and Daniel Herbst

25-44: An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments’ Trade Linkages in Global Value Chains

Aaron Flaaen, Fariha Kamal, Eunhee Lee and Kei-Mu Yi

25-43: Investments under Risk: Evidence from Hurricane Strikes

Rajesh Aggarwal and Mufaddal Baxamusa

25-42: The Rural/Urban Volunteering Divide

Laurie E. Paarlberg, Rebecca Nesbit, Su Young Choi and Ryan Moss

25-41: The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?

Rebecca Nesbit, Laurie E. Paarlberg and Suyeon Jo

25-40: Finding Suburbia in the Census

Todd Gardner

25-39: Understanding Criminal Record Penalties in the Labor Market

Evan K. Rose and Yotam Shem-Tov

25-38: Dynamics of High-Growth Young Firms and the Role of Venture Capitalists

Yoshiki Ando

25-37: Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony, Implicit Contracts, and Efficient Reallocation

Kyle Herkenhoff, Josh Lerner, Gordon M. Phillips, Francisca Rebelo and Benjamin Sampson

25-36: Tapping Business and Household Surveys to Sharpen Our View of Work from Home

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Kathryn Bonney, Cory Breaux, Catherine Buffington, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Brian McKenzie, Keith Savage and Cristina Tello-Trillo

25-35: Consequences of Eviction for Parenting and Non-parenting College Students

Nick Graetz, Adam Chapnik, Danielle H. Sandler and Sonya R. Porter

25-34: The Effects of Eviction on Children

Robert Collinson, Deniz Dutz, John Humphries, Nicholas Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum and Winnie van Dijk

25-33: Firm Heterogeneity, Misallocation, and Trade

John Chung

25-32: Multi-Market Contact in International Trade; Evidence from U.S. Battery Exporters

James R. Boohaker

25-31: Property Rights, Firm Size and Investments in Innovation: Evidence from the America Invents Act

James Driver

25-30: Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell and Gordon M. Phillips

25-29: The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find

Yoshiki Ando, James Bessen and Xiupeng Wang

25-28: Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children’s Adult Outcomes

Andrew C. Johnston, Maggie R. Jones and Nolan G. Pope

25-27: The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s)

Kristina McElheran, Mu-Jeung Yang, Zachary Kroff and Erik Brynjolfsson

25-26: Startup Dynamics: Transitioning from Nonemployer Firms to Employer Firms, Survival, and Job Creation

Alicia Robb and Adji Fatou Diagne

25-25: The Impact of Childcare Costs on Mothers’ Labor Force Participation

Valeska Araujo, Linden McBride and Danielle Sandler

25-24: Place Based Economic Development and Tribal Casinos

Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova

25-23: Re-assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

David Card, Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yi

25-22: Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti and Moises Yi

25-21: Growth is Getting Harder to Find, Not Ideas

Teresa C. Fort, Nathan Goldschlag, Jack Liang, Peter K. Schott and Nikolas Zolas

25-20: The Composition of Firm Workforces from 2006–2022: Findings from the Business Dynamics Statistics of Human Capital Experimental Product

Martha Stinson and Sean Wang

25-19: Geographic Immobility in the United States: Assessing the Prevalence and Characteristics of Those Who Never Migrate Across State Lines Using Linked Federal Tax Microdata

Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio and Thomas B. Foster

25-18: Work Organization and Cumulative Advantage

Dylan Nelson, Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang

25-16: Peer Income Exposure Across the Income Distribution

Michelle Spiegel, Leah Clark, Thurston Domina, Emily Penner, Paul Hanselman, Paul Y. Yoo and Andrew Penner

25-15: The Intangible Divide: Why Do So Few Firms Invest in Innovation?

James Bessen and Xiupeng Wang

25-14: Corporate Share Repurchase Policies and Labor Share

Xudong Fu, Darren Kisgen and Lei Kong

25-13: The Design of Sampling Strata for the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey

Jonathan Eggleston, Linden McBride and Mark Klee

25-12: Leveraged Payouts: How Using New Debt to Pay Returns in Private Equity Affects Firms, Employees, Creditors, and Investors

Abhishek Bhardwaj, Abhinav Gupta and Sabrina T. Howell

25-11: Geographic Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Mortality in the US: Comparing Impacts of Place of Birth and Place of Residence

Jason Fletcher, Katie Jajtner and Jinho Kim

25-10: Applying Current Core Based Statistical Area Standards to Historical Census Data, 1940-2020

Todd Gardner

25-09: Workers’ Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics

Seula Kim

25-08: Business Dynamics Statistics of Coastal Counties: A Description of Differences in Coastal Areas Over Time

Melissa Chow and Martha Stinson

25-07: U.S. Banks’ Artificial Intelligence and Small Business Lending: Evidence from the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey

Jeffery Piao, K. Philip Wang and Diana L. Weng

25-06: The Effect of Oil News Shocks on Job Creation and Destruction

Ryan Hanson and Ana María Herrera

25-05: Measuring the Business Dynamics of Firms that Received Pandemic Relief Funding: Findings from a New Experimental BDS Data Product

Richard Beem and Martha Stinson

25-04: Investigating the Effect of Innovation Activities of Firms on Innovation Performance: Does Firm Size Matter?

Mahour Parast, Adegoke Oke and Matthew Doolin

25-03: Potential Bias When Using Administrative Data to Measure the Family Income of School-Aged Children

Leah Clark and Renuka Bhaskar

25-02: A Granular Look into Firms’ Cash Portfolios

Youngsuk Yook

25-01: Food Security Status Across the Rural-Urban Continuum Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patrick J. Brady, Melissa N. Laska, Rachel Widome and Sruthi Valluri

24-78: Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones and Bradley Setzler

24-77: Exploring the Hiring, Pay, and Trading Patterns of U.S. Firms: The Dominance of Multinationals Engaged in Related-Party Trade

Jeronimo Carballo, Richard Mansfield and Kassandra McLean

24-76: CTC and ACTC Participation Results and IRS-Census Match Methodology, Tax Year 2020

Ciyata Coleman, Charles Hokayem, Sanghun (Eric) Kim, Ethan Krohn, Krishnan Patel and Dean Plueger

24-75: EITC Participation Results and IRS-Census Match Methodology, Tax Year 2021

Ciyata Coleman, Charles Hokayem, Sanghun (Eric) Kim, Ethan Krohn, Krishnan Patel and Dean Plueger

24-74: The Privacy-Protected Gridded Environmental Impacts Frame

John Voorheis, Jonathan Colmer, Kendall Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Cameron Scalera and Jennifer Withrow

24-73: Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database

J. David Brown, Steven Davis, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and John Sabelhaus