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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

20-03: Matching State Business Registration Records to Census Business Data

J. Daniel Kim and Kristin McCue

20-02: What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

Janet Currie, John Voorheis and Reed Walker

20-01: Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Export Growth: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal and Ryan Monarch

19-34: Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D): Exploring Longitudinal Consistency and Sub-national Estimates

Adela Luque, Michaela Dillon, Julia Manzella, James Noon, Kevin Rinz and Victoria Udalova

19-33: Maternal Labor Dynamics: Participation, Earnings, and Employer Changes

Danielle Sandler and Nichole Szembrot

19-32: Founding Teams and Startup Performance

Joonkyu Choi, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger and J. Daniel Kim

19-31: What Do Establishments Do When Wages Increase? Evidence from Minimum Wages in the United States

Yuci Chen

19-30: Human Capital, Parent Size and the Destination Industry of Spinouts

Mariko Sakakibara and Natarajan Balasubramanian

19-29: Who Gains from Creative Destruction? Evidence from High-Quality Entrepreneurship in the United States

Astrid Marinoni and John Voorheis

19-28: Addressing Data Gaps: Four New Lines of Inquiry in the 2017 Economic Census

Emek Basker, Randy Becker, Lucia Foster, T. Kirk White and Alice Zawacki

19-27: A Task-based Approach to Constructing Occupational Categories with Implications for Empirical Research in Labor Economics

Julia Manzella, Evan Totty and Gary Benedetto

19-26: High Labor Force Attachment, but Few Social Ties? Life-Course Predictors of Women’s Receipt of Childcare Subsidies

Rachel Shattuck

19-25: Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession

Kevin Rinz

19-24: Gender Differences in Self-employment Duration: the Case of Opportunity and Necessity Entrepreneurs

Adela Luque and Maggie R. Jones

19-23: Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms

Tania Babina, Wenting Ma, Christian Moser, Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

19-22: Re-engineering Key National Economic Indicators

Gabriel Ehrlich, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, David Johnson and Matthew Shapiro

19-21: Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit

Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley and Aysegul Sahin

19-20: Automating Response Evaluation For Franchising Questions On The 2017 Economic Census

Joseph Staudt, Yifang Wei, Lisa Singh, Shawn Klimek, J. Jensen and Andrew L. Baer

19-19: The Two-Income Trap: Are Two-Earner Households More Financially Vulnerable?

Jonathan Fisher and Nathaniel Johnson

19-18: Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census

J. David Brown, Misty Heggeness, Suzanne Dorinski, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

19-17: Foreign vs. U.S. Graduate Degrees: The Impact on Earnings Assimilation and Return Migration for the Foreign Born

Randall Akee and Maggie R. Jones

19-16: Property Rights, Place-Based Policies, and Economic Development

Laurel Wheeler

19-15: MANAGING TRADE: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA AND THE US

Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, John van Reenen, Stephen Teng Sun and Zhihong Yu

19-14: The Antipoverty Impact of the EITC: New Estimates from Survey and Administrative Tax Records

Maggie R. Jones and James Ziliak

19-13: Releasing Earnings Distributions using Differential Privacy: Disclosure Avoidance System For Post Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)

Andrew Foote, Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Kevin McKinney

19-12: Fraudulent Financial Reporting and the Consequences for Employees

Jung Ho Choi and Brandon Gipper

19-11: Statistics on the Small Business Administration’s Scale-Up America Program

C.J. Krizan

19-10: Immigrants' Earnings Growth and Return Migration from the U.S.: Examining their Determinants using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Randall Akee and Maggie R. Jones

19-09: Why the Economics Profession Must Actively Participate in the Privacy Protection Debate

John Abowd, Ian Schmutte, William N. Sexton and Lars Vilhuber

19-08: Optimal Probabilistic Record Linkage: Best Practice for Linking Employers in Survey and Administrative Data

John Abowd, Joelle Abramowitz, Margaret Levenstein, Kristin McCue, Dhiren Patki, Trivellore Raghunathan, Ann M. Rodgers, Matthew Shapiro and Nada Wasi

19-07: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States: New Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data

André Kurmann and Erika McEntarfer

19-06: IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATION IN THE U.S. HIGH-TECH SECTOR

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