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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

19-05: Do Institutions Determine Economic Geography? Evidence from the Concentration of Foreign Suppliers

Fariha Kamal and Asha Sundaram

19-04: The effect of child support on selection into marriage and fertility

Daniel Tannenbaum

19-03: Why are employer-sponsored health insurance premiums higher in the public sector than in the private sector?

Alice Zawacki, Jessica P. Vistnes and Thomas C. Buchmueller

19-02: Predictive Analytics and Organizational Architecture: Plant-Level Evidence from Census Data

Eva Labro, Mark Lang and Jim Omartian

19-01: Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D): Using Administrative and Census Records Data in Business Statistics

Adela Luque, Renuka Bhaskar, James Noon, Kevin Rinz and Victoria Udalova

18-52: Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers

Kimberly Bayard, Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger, Javier Miranda and John Stevens

18-51: The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): Collection and Processing

Catherine Buffington, Andrew Hennessy and Scott Ohlmacher

18-50: Reservation Nonemployer and Employer Establishments: Data from U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Databases

Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard M. Todd

18-49: The Modern Wholesaler: Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies

Sharat Ganapati

18-48: Growing Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity

Sharat Ganapati

18-47: Disclosure Avoidance Techniques Used for the 1970 through 2010 Decennial Censuses of Population and Housing

Laura McKenna

18-46: Squeezing More Out of Your Data: Business Record Linkage with Python

John Cuffe and Nathan Goldschlag

18-45: Factors that Influence Change in Hispanic Identification: Evidence from Linked Decennial Census and American Community Survey Data

Leticia Fernández, Sonya R. Porter, Sharon R. Ennis and Renuka Bhaskar

18-44: Development of Survey Questions on Robotics Expenditures and Use in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments

Catherine Buffington, Javier Miranda and Robert Seamans

18-43: A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers

Fariha Kamal

18-42: The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter

18-41: Hiring through Startup Acquisitions: Preference Mismatch and Employee Departures

J. Daniel Kim

18-40: Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter

18-39: Automation, Labor Share, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing

Emin Dinlersoz and Zoltán Wolf

18-38: Understanding the Quality of Alternative Citizenship Data Sources for the 2020 Census

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

18-37: Occupational Classifications: A Machine Learning Approach

Akina Ikudo, Julia Lane, Joseph Staudt and Bruce Weinberg

18-36: Firm Leverage, Labor Market Size, and Employee Pay

Timothy E. Dore and Rebecca Zarutskie

18-35: An Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices

John Abowd and Ian Schmutte

18-34: Locally Owned Bank Commuting Zone Concentration and Employer Start-Ups in Metropolitan, Micropolitan and Non-Core Rural Commuting Zones from 1970-2010

Craig Carpenter, F. Carson Mencken, Charles M. Tolbert and Michael Lotspeich

18-33: The Great Recession and a Missing Generation of Exporters

William F. Lincoln, Andrew H. McCallum and Michael Siemer

18-32: In-migration and Dilution of Community Social Capital

Julie Hotchkiss and Anil Rupasingha

18-31: Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou and Murugi Ndirangu

18-30: The Nature of Firm Growth

Benjamin Pugsley, Petr Sedlacek and Vincent Sterk

18-29: Older and Slower: The Startup Deficit’s Lasting Effects on Aggregate Productivity Growth

Titan Alon, David Berger, Robert Dent and Benjamin Pugsley

18-28: The Effects of Industry Classification Changes on US Employment Composition

Teresa Fort and Shawn Klimek

18-27: LEHD Infrastructure S2014 files in the FSRDC

Lars Vilhuber

18-26: Punctuated Entrepreneurship (Among Women)

Matt Marx

18-25: Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences in Productivity

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