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“...Using California and New York municipal bond data between 1996 and 2014, this paper documents a decline in the benefit of municipal bond insurance, explores...”

“...This paper validates the reliability of employment data in a frequently used establishment panel database assembled by InfoGroup by comparing it with...”

“...Why have the effects of COVID-19 been so unevenly geographically distributed in the United States? This paper investigates the role of social capital as a...”

“...Abstract Over 6 million households experienced foreclosure during the financial crisis. Where did they move, how did they fare and why? First, we create a new...”

“...•We introduce a new measure of technological change at the county-level.•Our measure utilizes data on the stock of intellectual property across industries.•We...”

“...We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment...”

“...Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) were implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the impact of these containment...”

“...The government is facing a severe shortage of skilled workers. The conventional wisdom in branches of policy and public administration is that the shortage is...”