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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

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