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08-24: Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

08-23: Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format

Emek Basker, Shawn Klimek and Van Pham

08-22: Products and Productivity

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

08-21: Health-Related Research Using Confidential U.S. Census Bureau Data

Rosemary Hyson and Alice Zawacki

08-20: The Going Public Decision and the Product Market

Thomas Chemmanur, Shan He and Debarshi Nandy

08-19: The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Values and Rents: Evidence from Restricted Census Microdata

Lucas Davis

08-18: Using Internal Current Population Survey Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor Earnings Gaps by Gender, Race, and Education Level

Richard Burkhauser and Jeff Larrimore

08-17: Entry, Exit, and Plant-Level Dynamics over the Business Cycle

Yoonsoo Lee and Toshihiko Mukoyama

08-16: How Does Venture Capital Financing Improve Efficiency in Private Firms? A Look Beneath the Surface

Thomas Chemmanur, Karthik Krishnan and Debarshi Nandy

08-15: You Can Take it With You: Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities

Fernando Ferreira

08-14: Market Forces, Plant Technology, and the Food Safety Technology Use

Michael Ollinger and Danna Moore

08-13: On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capital- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms

Manju Puri and Rebecca Zarutskie

08-12: Neighborhood Effects on High-School Drop-Out Rates and Teenage Childbearing: Tests for Non-Linearities, Race-Specific Effects, Interactions with Family Characteristics, and Endogenous Causation using Geocoded California Census Microdata

Rhiannon Patterson

08-11: Analysis of Young Neighborhood Firms Serving Urban Minority Clients

Timothy Bates and Alicia Robb

08-10: Horizontal Diversification and Vertical Contracting: Firm Scope and Asset Ownership in Taxi Fleets

Evan Rawley and Timothy Simcoe

08-09: A Warm Embrace or the Cold Shoulder: Wage and Employment Outcomes in Ethnic Enclaves

Roberto Pedace and Stephanie Rohn

08-08: The Efficiency of Internal Capital Markets: Evidence from the Annual Capital Expenditure Survey

Sumit Agarwal, Victor Souphom and Guy Yamashiro

08-07: Private Equity and Employment

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda

08-06: Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Jeff Larrimore, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Laura Zayatz

08-05: Trends in the Relative Household Income of Working-Age Men with Work Limitations: Correcting the Record Using Internal Current Population Survey Data

Richard Burkhauser and Jeff Larrimore

08-04: Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten

Maria Fitzpatrick

08-03: What Happens When Firms Patent? New Evidence from U.S. Economic Census Data

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

08-02: Who Gentrifies Low Income Neighborhoods?

Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh and T. Kirk White

08-01: Financial Intermediation and Late Development: The Case of Meiji Japan, 1868 to 1912

John Tang

07-33: Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

William Kerr and Ramana Nanda

07-32: Technological Leadership and Late Development: Evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868-1912

John Tang

07-31: Regional Industrial Dominance, Agglomeration Economies, and Manufacturing Plant Productivity

Joshua Drucker and Edward Feser

07-30: Crime's Impact on the Survival Prospects of Young Urban Small Businesses

Timothy Bates and Alicia Robb

07-29: Diversification, Organizational Adjustment and Firm Performance: Evidence from Microdata

Evan Rawley

07-28: Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000

Steven Davis, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Mary Streitwieser

07-27: A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan

07-26: The Dynamics of Market Structure and Market Size in Two Health Services Industries

Timothy Dunne, Mark Roberts, Shawn Klimek and Yi Xu

07-25: Access Methods for United States Microdata

Daniel Weinberg, John Abowd, Sandra Rowland, Philip Steel and Laura Zayatz

07-24: Lessons for Targeted Program Evaluation: A Personal and Professional History of the Survey of Program Dynamics

Daniel Weinberg

07-23: Long-Term Effects of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings

Joshua Angrist and Stacey Chen

07-22: International Trade and the Changing Demand for Skilled Workers in High-Tech Manufacturing

Julie Silva

07-21: Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

Tetyana Shvydko and David Blau

07-20: Issues and Challenges in Measuring Environmental Expenditures by U.S. Manufacturing: The Redevelopment of the PACE Survey

Ron Shadbegian and Randy Becker

07-19: Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity

Adriano Rampini and Andrea Eisfeldt

07-18: The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lisa Lynch

07-17: Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure U.S. Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Stephen Jenkins

07-16: Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Melissa McInerney

07-15: Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States Between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Melissa McInerney

07-14: Firms in International Trade

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

07-13: What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

William Kerr, Edward Glaeser and Glenn Ellison

07-12: Older Workers' Access to Employer-Sponsored Retiree Health Insurance, 2000-2004

Christine Eibner, Alice Zawacki and Elaine Zimmerman

07-11: Measuring U.S. Innovative Activity

Barbara Atrostic

07-10: Resident Perceptions of Crime: How Similar are They to Official Crime Rates?

John Hipp

07-09: How Does Geography Matter in Ethnic Labor Market Segmentation Process? A Case Study of Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco CMSA

Qingfang Wang

07-08: Mergers and Acquisitions, Employment, Wages and Plant Closures in the U.S. Meat Product Industries: Evidence from Micro Data

Michael Ollinger and Sang Nguyen