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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

20-29: United States Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility

Kevin L. McKinney, John Abowd and John Sabelhaus

20-28: Identifying U.S. Merchandise Traders: Integrating Customs Transactions with Business Administrative Data

Fariha Kamal and Wei Ouyang

20-27: A Shore Thing: Post-Hurricane Outcomes for Businesses in Coastal Areas

Melissa Chow and Jordan Stanley

20-26: A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy

Keith A. Bailey and James Spletzer

20-25: Family-Leave Mandates and Female Labor at U.S. Firms: Evidence from a Trade Shock

Fariha Kamal, Asha Sundaram and Cristina Tello-Trillo

20-24: Trends in Earnings Volatility using Linked Administrative and Survey Data

James Ziliak, Charles Hokayem and Christopher Bollinger

20-23: Who Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings

Joshua Gottlieb, Maria Polyakova, Kevin Rinz, Hugh Shiplett and Victoria Udalova

20-22: Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers

Misty Heggeness

20-21: How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?

Brendan Casey, Wayne Gray, Joshua Linn and Richard D. Morgenstern

20-20: The Disappearing IPO Puzzle: New Insights from Proprietary U.S. Census Data on Private Firms

Thomas Chemmanur, Jie (Jack) He, Xiao (Shaun) Ren and Tao Shu

20-19: The Impact of 2010 Decennial Census Hiring on the Unemployment Rate

Jonathan Eggleston, Mark Klee, Kristin McCue, Kristin Sandusky and James Spletzer

20-18: The Energy Efficiency Gap and Energy Price Responsiveness in Food Processing

Gale Boyd and Matt Doolin

20-17: Does Goliath Help David? Anchor Firms and Startup Clusters

Rahul Gupta

20-16: Measuring the Effect of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: The Small Business Pulse Survey

Catherine Buffington, Carrie Dennis, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster and Shawn Klimek

20-15: Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn

Satoshi Tanaka, Lawrence Warren and David Wiczer

20-14: R&D or R vs. D? Firm Innovation Strategy and Equity Ownership

James Driver, Adam Kolasinski and Jared Stanfield

20-13: Recall and Response: Relationship Adjustments to Adverse Information Shocks

Emek Basker and Fariha Kamal

20-12: The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Labor Share Decline

Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent

20-11: Are Customs Records Consistent Across Countries? Evidence from the U.S. and Colombia

C.J. Krizan, James Tybout, Zi Wang and Yingyan Zhao

20-10: Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?

Heitor Almeida, Nuri Ersahin, Vyacheslav Fos, Rustom M. Irani and Mathias Kronlund

20-09: Compositional Nature of Firm Growth and Aggregate Fluctuations

Vladimir Smirnyagin

20-08: Between Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Dominant Role of Industry Effects

John Haltiwanger and James Spletzer

20-07: Misallocation or Mismeasurement?

Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow and Cian Ruane

20-06: Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Sabrina T. Howell and J. David Brown

20-05: Validating Abstract Representations of Spatial Population Data while considering Disclosure Avoidance

James Gaboardi

20-04: Housing Booms and the U.S. Productivity Puzzle

Jose Carreno