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12-16: Getting Patents and Economic Data to Speak to Each Other: An 'Algorithmic Links with Probabilities' Approach for Joint Analyses of Patenting and Economic Activity

Travis Lybbert and Nikolas Zolas

12-15: Evaluating the Impact of MEP Services on Establishment Performance: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

Christopher Ordowich, David Cheney, Jan Youtie, Andrea Fernández-Ribas and Philip Shapira

12-14: The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition

Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim

12-13: Dynamically Consistent Noise Infusion and Partially Synthetic Data as Confidentiality Protection Measures for Related Time Series

John Abowd, R. Gittings, Kevin L. McKinney, Bryce E. Stephens, Lars Vilhuber and Simon Woodcock

12-12: THE RISE AND FALL OF UNIONS IN THE U.S

Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood

12-11: Materials Prices and Productivity

Enghin Atalay

12-10: University Innovation, Local Economic Growth, and Entrepreneurship

Naomi Hausman

12-09: Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

William Kerr and Scott Kominers

12-08: Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

12-07: IPO Waves, Product Market Competition, and the Going Public Decision: Theory and Evidence

Thomas Chemmanur and Jie He

12-06: The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

12-05: Micro Data and the Macro Elasticity of Substitution

Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval

12-04: Job-to-Job Flows and the Business Cycle

Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

12-03: Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

12-02: The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act and the Workforce

Reed Walker

12-01: The Spatial Extent of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Three U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Joshua Drucker

11-43: LEHD Data Documentation LEHD-OVERVIEW-S2008-rev1

Kevin McKinney and Lars Vilhuber

11-42: Export Prices of U.S. Firms

James Harrigan, Xiangjun Ma and Victor Shlychkov

11-41: Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution

Douglas Webber

11-40: Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S

Bhashkar Mazumder

11-39: An Analysis of Sample Selection and the Reliability of Using Short-term Earnings Averages in SIPP-SSA Matched Data

Jonathan Davis and Bhashkar Mazumder

11-38: Entry Costs and Increasing Trade

William F. Lincoln and Andrew H. McCallum

11-37: Further Evidence from Census 2000 About Earnings by Detailed Occupation for Men and Women: The Role of Race and Hispanic Origin

Daniel Weinberg

11-36: Changes in Firm Pension Policy: Trends Away from Traditional Defined Benefit Plans

Kandice Kapinos

11-35: Long-Run Earnings Volatility and Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP Gold Standard File

Matthew Rutledge

11-34: Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li

11-33: Migration and Dispersal of Hispanic and Asian Groups: An Analysis of the 2006-2008 Multiyear American Community Survey

William Frey and Julie Park

11-32: Acquiring Labor

Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

11-31: Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age, and Growth

Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

11-30: Job Displacement And The Duration Of Joblessness: The Role Of Spatial Mismatch

Fredrik Andersson, John Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Henry Pollakowski and Daniel Weinberg

11-29: Newly Recovered Microdata on U.S. Manufacturing Plants from the 1950s and 1960s: Some Early Glimpses

Randy Becker and Cheryl Grim

11-28: Modeling Single Establishment Firm Returns to the 2007 Economic Census

Emin Dinlersoz and Shawn Klimek

11-27: A Guide to the MEPS-IC Government List Sample Microdata

Alice Zawacki

11-26: Nature Versus Nurture in the Origins of Highly Productive Businesses: An Exploratory Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Establishments

J. David Brown and John Earle

11-25: Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

Allan Collard-Wexler

11-24: Wage Dynamics along the Life-Cycle of Manufacturing Plants

Emin Dinlersoz, Henry Hyatt and Sang Nguyen

11-23: The Productivity Advantage and Global Scope of U.S. Multinational Firms

Raymond Mataloni, Jr.

11-22: Management Challenges of the 2010 U.S. Census

Daniel Weinberg

11-21: Impacts of Central Business District Location: A Hedonic Analysis of Legal Service Establishments

Frank Limehouse and Robert McCormick

11-20: Estimating Measurement Error in SIPP Annual Job Earnings: A Comparison of Census Bureau Survey and SSA Administrative Data

John Abowd and Martha Stinson

11-19: Using the Survey of Plant Capacity to Measure Capital Utilization

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Matthew Shapiro

11-18: The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in U.S. Manufacturing

Joyce Burnette

11-17: The Case of the Missing Ethnicity: Indians without Tribes in the 21st Century

Carolyn Liebler and Meghan Zacher

11-16: Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Emek Basker

11-15: The Cyclicality of Productivity Dispersion

Matthias Kehrig

11-14: Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce Meyer and Robert Goerge

11-13: LEHD Infrastructure Files in the Census RDC: Overview of S2004 Snapshot

Kevin McKinney and Lars Vilhuber

11-12: Parental Earnings and Children's Well-Being and Future Success: An Analysis of the SIPP Matched to SSA Earnings Data

Bhashkar Mazumder and Jonathan Davis

11-11: Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm

Vojislav Maksimovic, Gordon Phillips and Nagpurnanand Prabhala

11-10: Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Kristina McElheran