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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

07-07: Estimating the Distribution of Plant-Level Manufacturing Energy Efficiency with Stochastic Frontier Regression

Gale Boyd

07-06: Geographic Redistribution of the U.S. Manufacturing and The Role of State Development Policy

Yoonsoo Lee

07-05: The Importance of Reallocations in Cyclical Productivity and Returns to Scale: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Yoonsoo Lee

07-04: Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

William Kerr, Adriana Kugler and David Autor

07-03: Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application

Patrick Bayer and Stephen Ross

07-02: Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

07-01: The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies

Thomas Hubbard and Luis Garicano

06-33: Access to Financial Capital Among U.S. Businesses: The Case of African-American Firms

Alicia Robb and Robert Fairlie

06-32: Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Alicia Robb and Robert Fairlie

06-31: A General Inter-Industry Relatedness Index

David Bryce and Sidney Winter

06-30: Gross Job Flows for the U.S. Manufacturing Sector: Measurement from the Longitudinal Research Database

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Namsuk Kim

06-29: Industry Learning Environments and the Heterogeneity of Firm Performance

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Marvin Lieberman

06-28: The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

William Kerr and Shihe Fu

06-27: Stability and Change in Individual Determinants of Migration: Evidence from 1985-1990 and 1995 to 2000

Charles Tolbert, Troy Blanchard and Michael Irwin

06-26: Efficiency Implications of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Micro Data

Ekaterina Emm and Jayant Kale

06-25: Explaining Cyclical Movements in Employment: Creative-Destruction or Changes in Utilization?

Andrew Figura

06-24: Why Are Plant Deaths Countercyclical: Reallocation Timing or Fragility?

Andrew Figura

06-23: The Impact of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma on Business Establishments: A GIS Approach

Javier Miranda and Ron Jarmin

06-22: Do Alternative Opportunities Matter? The Role of Female Labor Markets in the Decline of Teacher Quality

Marigee Bacolod

06-21: Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

06-20: The Dynamics of Plant-Level Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing

Arpad Abraham and T. Kirk White

06-19: The Production Decisions of Large Competitors: Detecting Cost Advantages and Strategic Behavior in Restaurants

Clarissa Yeap