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21-34: The Industrial Revolution in Services

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

21-33: The Business Dynamics Statistics: Describing the Evolution of the U.S. Economy from 1978-2019

Christopher Goetz and Martha Stinson

21-32: Location, Location, Location

David Card, Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yi

21-31: Pay, Productivity and Management

Nicholas Bloom, Scott Ohlmacher, Cristina Tello-Trillo and Melanie Wallskog

21-30: Earnings Inequality and Immobility for Hispanics and Asians: An Examination of Variation Across Subgroups

Randall Akee, Sonya R. Porter and Emilia Simeonova

21-29: Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation

Ishan Nath

21-28: Import Competition and Firms’ Internal Networks

Jay Hyun, Ziho Park and Vladimir Smirnyagin

21-27: Incidence and Performance of Spinouts and Incumbent New Ventures: Role of Selection and Redeployability within Parent Firms

Natarajan Balasubramanian and Mariko Sakakibara

21-26: The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research

Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina T. Howell, Elisabeth Perlman and Joseph Staudt

21-25: Developing Content for the Management and Organizational Practices Survey-Hospitals (MOPS-HP)

Alice Zawacki, Scott Ohlmacher and Struther Van Horn

21-24: Small Business Pulse Survey Estimates by Owner Characteristics and Rural/Urban Designation

Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, James Hunt and Shawn Klimek

21-23: Immigration and the Demand for Urban Housing

Miles M. Finney

21-22: How Collateral Affects Small Business Lending: The Role of Lender Specialization

Manasa Gopal

21-21: Productivity Dispersion, Entry, and Growth in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart and Zoltán Wolf

21-20: Leapfrogging the Melting Pot? European Immigrants’ Intergenerational Mobility Across the 20th Century

Kendal Lowrey, Jennifer Van Hook, James D. Bachmeier and Thomas B. Foster

21-19: Comparing Earnings Outcome Differences Between All Graduates and Title IV Graduates

Andrew Foote

21-18: Immigration and Local Business Dynamics: Evidence from U.S. Firms

Parag Mahajan

21-17: A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, David Jinkins, C.J. Krizan and James Tybout

21-16: A Note on the Locational Determinants of the Agricultural Supply Chain

Anders Van Sandt and Craig Carpenter

21-15: Heavy Tailed, but not Zipf: Firm and Establishment Size in the U.S

Illenin Kondo, Logan Lewis and Andrea Stella

21-14: School Discipline and Racial Disparities in Early Adulthood

Miles Davison, Andrew Penner, Emily Penner, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Evan Rose, Yotam Shem-Tov and Paul Yoo

21-13: Combining Rules and Discretion in Economic Development Policy: Evidence on the Impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

21-12: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

21-11: Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, J. David Brown and John Earle

21-10: Cyclical Worker Flows: Cleansing vs. Sullying

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer and Matthew Staiger

21-09: Business Applications as a Leading Economic Indicator?

Jose Asturias, Emin Dinlersoz, John Haltiwanger, Rebecca Hutchinson and Alyson Plumb

21-08: Redesigning the Longitudinal Business Database

Melissa Chow, Teresa C. Fort, Christopher Goetz, Nathan Goldschlag, James Lawrence, Elisabeth Perlman, Martha Stinson and T. Kirk White

21-07: U.S. Long-Term Earnings Outcomes by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Place of Birth

Kevin L. McKinney, John Abowd and Hubert Janicki

21-06: High Frequency Business Dynamics in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Catherine Buffington, Daniel Chapman, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster and John Haltiwanger

21-05: Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

21-04: Changes in Metropolitan Area Definition, 1910-2010

Todd Gardner

21-03: Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty

Seth Murray, Danielle Sandler and Matthew Staiger

21-02: Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses and People: Lessons from the Census Bureau’s Experience

Catherine Buffington, Jason Fields and Lucia Foster

21-01: Business Formation: A Tale of Two Recessions

Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger and Veronika Penciakova

20-45: Entrepreneurial Teams: Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth

Francesco D’Acunto, Geoffrey Tate and Liu Yang

20-44: Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States

Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, J. Daniel Kim and Javier Miranda

20-43: The Shifting of the Property Tax on Urban Renters: Evidence from New York State’s Homestead Tax Option

David J. Schwegman and John Yinger

20-42: Family Formation and the Great Recession

Garrett Anstreicher

20-41: Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta-Eksten

20-40: Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey

Nikolas Zolas, Zachary Kroff, Erik Brynjolfsson, Kristina McElheran, David Beede, Catherine Buffington, Nathan Goldschlag, Lucia Foster and Emin Dinlersoz

20-39: The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes

John Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Giordano Palloni, Henry O. Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger and Daniel Weinberg

20-38: Business Dynamics on American Indian Reservations: Evidence from Longitudinal Datasets

Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard Todd

20-37: Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce

Erling Barth, James Davis, Richard Freeman and Kristina McElheran

20-36: The Grandkids Aren't Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure

Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis

20-35: The EITC and Intergenerational Mobility

Maggie R. Jones, Emilia Simeonova and Randall Akee

20-34: An Evaluation of the Gender Wage Gap Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Thomas B. Foster, Marta Murray-Close, Liana Christin Landivar and Mark deWolf

20-33: Determination of the 2020 U.S. Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Using Administrative Records and Statistical Methodology Technical Report

John Abowd, William R. Bell, J. David Brown, Michael B. Hawes, Misty Heggeness, Andrew D. Keller, Vincent T. Mule, Joseph L. Schafer, Matthew Spence, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

20-32: Home Equity Lending, Credit Constraints and Small Business in the US

William Lastrapes, Ian Schmutte and Thor Watson

20-31: Male Earnings Volatility in LEHD before, during, and after the Great Recession

Kevin L. McKinney and John Abowd

20-30: Total Error and Variability Measures for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics in OnTheMap

Kevin L. McKinney, Andrew Green, Lars Vilhuber and John Abowd