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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

17-11: Labor Reallocation, Employment, and Earnings: Vector Autoregression Evidence

Henry Hyatt and Tucker McElroy

17-10: Geography in Reduced Form

Oren Ziv

17-09: Locked In? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers

Natarajan Balasubramanian, Jin Woo Chang, Mariko Sakakibara, Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Evan Starr

17-08: Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth*

Joyce K. Hahn, Henry Hyatt, Hubert Janicki and Stephen R. Tibbets

17-07: Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

David A. Keiser and Joseph Shapiro

17-06: Estimating market power Evidence from the US Brewing Industry

Jan De Loecker and Paul T. Scott

17-05: Industrial Investments in Energy Efficiency: A Good Idea?

Mary Jialin Li

17-04: How Destructive is Innovation?

Daniel Garcia-Macia, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

17-03: Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

17-02: State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

Xavier Giroud and Joshua Rauh

17-01: Firm Leverage, Consumer Demand, and Employment Losses during the Great Recession

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

16-58: Food and Agricultural Industries: Opportunities for Improving Measurement and Reporting

Richard Dunn and Brent Hueth

16-57: Hires and Separations in Equilibrium

Edward Lazear and Kristin McCue

16-56: The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the LEHD

Ted Mouw

16-55: Business Dynamics Statistics of High Tech Industries

Nathan Goldschlag and Javier Miranda