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Entrepreneurs, first fielded in 2014. Foster was instrumental to the effort to have the Management and
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Foster, Lucia, Ron Jarmin, and Lynn Riggs. 2010. "Resolving the
Tension between Access and Confidentiality: Past Experience and Future Plans at the U.S. Census Bureau." Statistical Journal of the IAOS: Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics, Vol. 26
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Foster, Lucia, C.J. Krizan, Kristin
Fairman, and Ian Rucker. 2008. "An Analysis of Key Difference in Micro Data: Results from the Business List Comparison Project." American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section
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Foster, Lucia, John C. Haltiwanger, Shawn D. Klimek, C.J. Krizan, and Scott
Ohlmacher. 2016. "The Evolution of National Retail Chains: How We Got Here." In Handbook on the Economics of Retailing and Distribution, ed. Emek Basker (ed.),
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Foster, Lucia, C.J. Krizan, David Talan, and Joel Elvery. 2006. "Preliminary Micro Data
Results from the Business List Comparison Project." Proceedings of the American Statical Associations, Business and Economics Statistics Section
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Foster, Lucia, C.J. Krizan, and John
Haltiwanger. 2006. "Market Selection, Reallocation, and Restructuring in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector in the 1990s." Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 88, No. 4, Pages
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Foster, Lucia and Cheryl Grim. 2010. "Characteristics of the Top R&D Performing Firms in the U.S.: Evidence from the Survey of
Industrial R&D." Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper, 10–33.
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Haltiwanger. 2014. "Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not?" NBER Working Paper, No. 20427 (Prior version Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper,
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Buffington, Cathy, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, and Scott
Ohlmacher. 2016. "The Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS): An Overview." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 42(1).
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Foster, Lucia, John Haltiwanger, and Chad Syverson. 2008. "Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?" American Economic Review, No. 98(1), 394–425.
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Foster, Lucia, Cheryl Grim, and John Haltiwanger. 2016. "Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not?" Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1): S293-S331. DOI:10.1086/682397 .
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Foster, Lucia, John Haltiwanger, and Chad Syverson. 2012. "The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?" Center for Economic Studies Working Paper, No. 12-06.
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Bloom, Nick, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, and Itay Saporta-Eksten. 2013. "Management in America." Center for Economic Studies Working Paper, No. 13-01.
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