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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

11-09: Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?

Jonathan Fisher and Joseph Marchand

11-08: How Does Size Matter? Investigating the Relationships Among Plant Size, Industrial Structure, and Manufacturing Productivity

Joshua Drucker

11-07: Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory and Patrick Kline

11-06: What Do I Take With Me: The Impact of Transfer and Replication of Resources on Parent and Spin-Out Firm Performance

Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell, April Franco and Martin Ganco

11-05: Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Estimation of a CES Production Function with Factor Augmenting Technology

Devesh Raval

11-04: Towards Unrestricted Public Use Business Microdata: The Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database

Satkartar K. Kinney, Jerome P. Reiter, Arnold Reznek, Javier Miranda, Ron Jarmin and John Abowd

11-03: The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Michael Greenstone, John List and Chad Syverson

11-02: Plant-Level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in the Census of Manufactures

T. Kirk White, Jerome P. Reiter and Amil Petrin

11-01: Local Manufacturing Establishments and the Earnings of Manufacturing Workers: Insights from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Charles M. Tolbert and Troy C. Blanchard

10-41: Migration Decisions in Arctic Alaska: Empirical Evidence of the Stepping Stones Hypothesis

Lance Howe and Lee Huskey

10-40: Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets

Ian Schmutte

10-39: Workplace Concentration of Immigrants

Fredrik Andersson, Mónica García-Pérez, John Haltiwanger, Kristin McCue and Seth Sanders

10-38: Soft Information and Investment: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Xavier Giroud

10-37: Tariff Pass-Through, Firm Heterogeneity and Product Quality

Zhi George Yu

10-36: NBER Patent Data-BR Bridge: User Guide and Technical Documentation

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

10-35: Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: The Organizational Structure of I.T. Purchasing Authority

Kristina Steffenson McElheran

10-34: Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Mercedes Delgado, Michael Porter and Scott Stern

10-33: Characteristics of the Top R&D Performing Firms in the U.S.: Evidence from the Survey of Industrial R&D

Lucia Foster and Cheryl Grim

10-32: Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Fredrik Andersson, Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall and L. Kristin Sandusky

10-31: Clusters and Entrepreneurship

Mercedes Delgado, Michael Porter and Scott Stern

10-30: Local Environmental Regulation and Plant-Level Productivity

Randy Becker

10-29: Competition and Productivity: Evidence from the Post WWII U.S. Cement Industry

Timothy Dunne, Shawn Klimek and James Schmitz, Jr.

10-28: A Dynamic Structural Model of Contraceptive Use and Employment Sector Choice for Women in Indonesia

Uma Radhakrishnan

10-27: Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas

Bruce Blonigen, Benjamin Liebman, Justin Pierce and Wesley Wilson

10-26: Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger and Erika McEntarfer

10-25: Computer Networks and Productivity Revisited: Does Plant Size Matter? Evidence and Implications

Henry Hyatt and Sang Nguyen

10-24: Past Experience and Future Success: New Evidence on Owner Characteristics and Firm Performance

Ron Jarmin and C.J. Krizan

10-23: Declines in Employer Sponsored Coverage Between 2000 and 2008: Offers, Take-Up, Premium Contributions, and Dependent Options

Jessica Vistnes, Alice Zawacki, Kosali Simon and Amy Taylor

10-22: Professional Employer Organizations: What Are They, Who Uses Them and Why Should We Care?

Britton Lombardi and Yukako Ono

10-21: Access to Workers or Employers? An Intra-Urban Analysis of Plant Location Decisions

Mark Kutzbach

10-20: Entry, Growth, and the Business Environment: A Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data from the U.S. and Transition Economies

J. David Brown and John Earle

10-19: How Low Income Neighborhoods Change: Entry, Exit and Enhancement

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine M. O'Regan

10-18: Who Moves to Mixed-Income Neighborhoods?

Terra McKinnish and T. Kirk White

10-17: Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

10-16: Information and Industry Dynamics

Emin Dinlersoz and Mehmet Yorukoglu

10-15: Comparing Measures of Earnings Instability Based on Survey and Adminstrative Reports

Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

10-14: Concentration, Diversity, and Manufacturing Performance

Joshua Drucker

10-13: Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size

Thomas J. Holmes and John Stevens

10-12: Pollution Havens and the Trade in Toxic Chemicals: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows

John Tang

10-11: National Estimates of Gross Employment and Job Flows from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with Demographic and Industry Detail

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber

10-10: An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Thomas Holmes and John Stevens

10-09: Foreign-Born Out-Migration from New Destinations: The Effects of Economic Conditions and Nativity Concentration

Mary Kritz and Douglas Gurak

10-08: Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry

Hector Perez-Saiz