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COVID-19
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Childcare Challenges and Pandemic-Related Employment Dynamics
Concentration and Resilience in the U.S. Meat Supply Chains
Is Online Education Working?
Direct and Spillover Effects from Staggered Adoption of Health Policies: Evidence from COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders
The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
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Unemployment and Immigration
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Risk Aversion, Overconfidence, and Gender Disparity in Job Search
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Welfare Costs of Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Consumption Shocks
The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
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Energy
energy
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Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 3
Electric Utilities Anticipated Clean Air Act Regulations
Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles
Regulating Conglomerates in China: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program
Long-Term Resource Adequacy in Wholesale Electricity Markets with Significant Intermittent Renewables
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Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp, Summer 2021
Persuading Investors: A Video-Based Study
Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship
Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents
The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies
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Trade
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Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts
Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade
Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains
A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium
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