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17-61: Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference

Isaac Sorkin

17-60: Social Influence and the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision

Jonathan Fisher

17-59: Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Improve the U.S. Statistical System?

Daniel Weinberg, John Abowd, Robert F. Belli, Noel Cressie, David C. Folch, Scott H. Holan, Margaret Levenstein, Kristen M. Olson, Jerome P. Reiter, Matthew Shapiro, Jolene Smyth, Leen-Kiat Soh, Bruce D. Spencer, Seth E. Spielman, Lars Vilhuber and Christopher K. Wikle

17-58: Firm Reorganization, Chinese Imports, and US Manufacturing Employment

Ildikó Magyari

17-57: Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database

Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard M. Todd

17-56: Estimating the Local Productivity Spillovers from Science

Subhra Saha, Joseph Staudt and Bruce Weinbergx

17-55: The Potential for Using Combined Survey and Administrative Data Sources to Study Internal Labor Migration

Christopher Goetz

17-54: Who Files for Personal Bankruptcy in the United States?

Jonathan Fisher

17-53: High-Growth Entrepreneurship

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

17-52: The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income

Bryan Stuart

17-51: Pirate’s Treasure

Jenny Lin and William Lincoln

17-50: Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration

Parag Mahajan and Dean Yang

17-49: Recalculating...: How Uncertainty in Local Labor Market Definitions Affects Empirical Findings

Andrew Foote, Mark Kutzbach and Lars Vilhuber

17-48: Estimating the Costs of Covering Dependents through Employer-Sponsored Plans

G. Edward Miller, Jessica Vistnes, Matthew Buettgens and Lisa Dubay

17-47: A Comparison of Training Modules for Administrative Records Use in Nonresponse Followup Operations: The 2010 Census and the American Community Survey

Melissa Chow, Hubert Janicki, Mark Kutzbach, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

17-46: The Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs: An Update

Lucia Foster and Patrice Norman

17-45: File Matching with Faulty Continuous Matching Variables

Nicole M. Dalzell, Jerome P. Reiter and Gale Boyd

17-44: Hours Off the Clock

Andrew Green

17-43: Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sebastien Perez-Duarte and Ian Schmutte

17-42: Personal Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship

Geraldo Cerqueiro, María Penas and Robert Seamans

17-41: Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights

Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Zoltán Wolf

17-40: Developing a Residence Candidate File for Use With Employer-Employee Matched Data

Matthew Graham, Mark Kutzbach and Danielle Sandler

17-39: Decennial Census Return Rates: The Role of Social Capital

Julie Hotchkiss

17-38: Ready-to-Mix: Horizontal Mergers, Prices, and Productivity

Robert Kulick

17-37: Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Confidentiality Protection as Public Goods

John Abowd and Ian Schmutte

17-36: Creditor Rights, Technology Adoption, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence

Nuri Ersahin

17-35: How Wide Is the Firm Border?

Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortacsu, Mary Jialin Li and Chad Syverson

17-34: Two Perspectives on Commuting: A Comparison of Home to Work Flows Across Job-Linked Survey and Administrative Files

Andrew Green, Mark Kutzbach and Lars Vilhuber

17-33: Firm-to-Firm Relationships and Price Rigidity Theory and Evidence

Sebastian Heise

17-32: What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John van Reenen

17-31: Import Competition from and Offshoring to Low-Income Countries: Implications for Employment and Wages at U.S. Domestic Manufacturers

Fariha Kamal and Mary E. Lovely

17-30: The Impact of College Education on Old-Age Mortality: A Study of Marginal Treatment Effects

Evan Taylor

17-29: Firm Dynamics, Persistent Effects of Entry Conditions, and Business Cycles

Sara Moreira

17-28: School Accountability and Residential Location Patterns: Evaluating the Unintended Consequences of No Child Left Behind

Keren Mertens Horn

17-27: Has Falling Crime Invited Gentrification?

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Keren Mertens Horn and Davin Reed

17-26: An Empirical Analysis of Capacity Costs

Merle Ederhof, Venky Nagar and Madhav Rajan

17-25: Examining Multi-Level Correlates of Suicide by Merging NVDRS and ACS Data

David A Boulifard and Bernice A Pescosolido

17-24: Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

John Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney and Nellie L. Zhao

17-23: Are firm-level idiosyncratic shocks important for U.S. aggregate volatility?

Chen Yeh

17-22: Multinationals Offshoring, and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Christoph Boehm, Aaron Flaaen and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

17-21: Brighter Prospects? Assessing the Franchise Advantage using Census Data

Francine Lafontaine, Marek Zapletal and Xu Zhang

17-20: The Effects of Occupational Licensing Evidence from Detailed Business-Level Data

Marek Zapletal

17-19: Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship

Tania Babina

17-18: Going Entrepreneurial? IPOs and New Firm Creation

Tania Babina, Paige Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

17-17: Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown

Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

17-16: Bankruptcy Spillovers

Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Xavier Giroud and Benjamin Iverson

17-15: Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News

Cosmin Ilut, Matthias Kehrig and Martin Schneider

17-14: Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent

17-13: R&D, Attrition and Multiple Imputation in BRDIS

Juana Sanchez and Sydney Noelle Kahmann

17-12: Public-Use vs. Restricted-Use: An Analysis Using the American Community Survey

Satkartar K. Kinney and Alan F. Karr