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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

18-24: Competition, Productivity, and Survival of Grocery Stores in the Great Depression

Emek Basker, Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

18-23: Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

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

18-22: An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration

Emin Dinlersoz, Nathan Goldschlag, Amanda Myers and Nikolas Zolas

18-21: When Liability Becomes Potential: Intermediary Entrepreneurship in Dynamic Market Contexts

Tünde Cserpes

18-20: Creditor Rights, Technology Adoption, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence

Nuri Ersahin

18-19: The Reallocation Myth

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

18-18: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, Pete Klenow and Huiyu Li

18-17: New Perspectives on the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Teresa Fort, Justin Pierce and Peter K. Schott

18-16: Relative Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Programs versus Market Based Climate Policies in the Chemical Industry

Gale Boyd and Jonathan Lee

18-15: Strong Employers and Weak Employees: How Does Employer Concentration Affect Wages?

Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman and Hyunseob Kim

18-14: Individual Social Capital and Migration

Julie Hotchkiss and Anil Rupasingha

18-13: Head Start and Mothers' Work: Free Child Care or Something More?

Ariel Pihl

18-12: Fathers, Children, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

Martha Stinson and Christopher Wignall

18-11: Who are the people in my neighborhood? The ‘contextual fallacy’ of measuring individual context with census geographies

Christopher S. Fowler, Nathan Frey, David C. Folch, Nicholas Nagle and Seth Spielman

18-10: Aggregating From Micro to Macro Patterns of Trade

Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

18-09: Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle

Nicolas Crouzet and Neil R. Mehrotra

18-08: Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth

Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Zoltán Wolf

18-07: Disclosure Limitation and Confidentiality Protection in Linked Data

John Abowd, Ian Schmutte and Lars Vilhuber

18-06: New Evidence on the Impacts of Early Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Old-Age Mortality

Jason Fletcher

18-05: How long do early career decisions follow women? The impact of industry and firm size history on the gender and motherhood wage gaps

Holly Monti, Lori Reeder and Martha Stinson

18-04: Estimating Unequal Gains across U.S. Consumers with Supplier Trade Data

Colin Hottman and Ryan Monarch

18-03: Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy

Eva Lyubich, Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker

18-02: Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum and Jeffrey Smith

18-01: The Employee Clientele of Corporate Leverage: Evidence from Personal Labor Income Diversification

Jie (Jack) He, Tao Shu and Huan Yang

17-72: Business Dynamic Statistics of Innovative Firms

Nathan Goldschlag and Elisabeth Perlman

17-71: Total Error and Variability Measures with Integrated Disclosure Limitation for Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics in On The Map

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

17-70: The Cross-Section of Labor Leverage and Equity Returns*

Andres Donangelo, Francois Gourio, Matthias Kehrig and Miguel Palacios

17-69: Just Passing Through: Characterizing U.S. Pass-Through Business Owners

Nathan Goldschlag, J. Daniel Kim and Kristin McCue

17-68: The Parental Gender Earnings Gap in the United States

YoonKyung Chung, Barbara Downs, Danielle Sandler and Robert Sienkiewicz

17-67: DOES PARENTS’ ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING INCREASE CHILDREN’S OPPORTUNITIES? EVIDENCE FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF TITLE X

Martha Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoë McLaren

17-66: Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code

Emek Basker and Timothy Simcoe

17-65: Planning Parenthood: The Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision and Pathways to Fertility

Joelle Abramowitz

17-64: Considering the Use of Stock and Flow Outcomes in Empirical Analyses: An Examination of Marriage Data

Joelle Abramowitz and Marcus Dillender

17-63: Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?*

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

17-62: The Need to Account for Complex Sampling Features when Analyzing Establishment Survey Data: An Illustration using the 2013 Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)

Brady T. West and Joseph W. Sakshaug