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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
Canadian Labour Market Dynamics During COVID-19
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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?
Canadian Labour Market Dynamics During COVID-19
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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The 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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Economics of Information
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Macroeconomics

Macroeconomic Models
Consumption and Investment
Business Cycles
Money and Interest Rates
Monetary Policy
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International Economics

Trade
International Factor Mobility
International Finance
International Macroeconomics
Globalization and International Relations

Financial Economics

Financial Markets
Financial Institutions
Corporate Finance
Behavioral Finance
Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing

Public Economics

Taxation
Public Goods
National Fiscal Issues
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Health, Education, and Welfare

Health
Education
Poverty and Wellbeing

Labor Economics

Demography and Aging
Labor Supply and Demand
Labor Compensation
Labor Market Structures
Labor Relations
Unemployment and Immigration
Labor Discrimination

Industrial Organization

Market Structure and Firm Performance
Firm Behavior
Nonprofits
Antitrust
Regulatory Economics
Industry Studies

History

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Development and Growth

Development
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Environmental and Resource Economics

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COVID-19
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