# Publications Also see > [NBER Books + WPs: On-Line](/nber-books-line "Publications: NBER Books + WPs") Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 676 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Year of PublicationAlphabetical A-Z sort ## 676 results Download 676 citations download- [BibTeX](/node/723021/export?format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/node/723021/export?format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/node/723021/export?format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/node/723021/export?format=tagged) - [Marc](/node/723021/export?format=marc) - [PubMedId](/node/723021/export?format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/node/723021/export?format=ris) ### Forthcoming Freeman RB. ["Planning for the “Expected Unexpected”: Work and Retirement in the U.S. After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock", in Lisa Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale (editors)](/publications/%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%ADfreeman-richard-b-2021-forthcoming-how-will-technology-affect-work-and). In: Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of "Working Longer". New York : Oxford University Press . Freeman RB. ["Planning for the “Expected Unexpected”: Work and Retirement in the U.S. After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock", in Lisa Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale (editors)](/publications/%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%ADfreeman-richard-b-2021-forthcoming-how-will-technology-affect-work-and). In: Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of "Working Longer". New York : Oxford University Press . - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This chapter analyzes the implications of the unexpected 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic for work and retirement in the U.S. The pandemic induced the greatest loss of jobs in the shortest period of time in U.S. history. A slow economic recovery would surely... Freeman RB, Liu X, Liu Z, Song R, Xiong R. ["Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China."](/publications/minimum-wages-and-rise-firms-robot-adoption-china). Freeman RB, Liu X, Liu Z, Song R, Xiong R. ["Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China."](/publications/minimum-wages-and-rise-firms-robot-adoption-china). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most of China’s robots are imported. We find that minimum wages raise... ### 2025 Rhodes A, Hu X, Freeman RB, Agrawal R, Cherot E, Dardarian TS, Gottsch S, Chan T, Blackburn B. [Who’s Not Talking? Nonresponse Bias in Healthcare Employee Surveys. Journal of Healthcare](https://journals.lww.com/jhmonline/fulltext/2025/09000/who_s_not_talking__nonresponse_bias_in_healthcare.5.aspx). Journal of Healthcare Management. 2025;70(5):16. Rhodes A, Hu X, Freeman RB, Agrawal R, Cherot E, Dardarian TS, Gottsch S, Chan T, Blackburn B. [Who’s Not Talking? Nonresponse Bias in Healthcare Employee Surveys. Journal of Healthcare](https://journals.lww.com/jhmonline/fulltext/2025/09000/who_s_not_talking__nonresponse_bias_in_healthcare.5.aspx). Journal of Healthcare Management. 2025;70(5):16. - [ picture\_as\_pdf2024\_Survey Nonresponse B...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-01/2024_Survey%20Nonresponse%20Bias_MS_Rhodes-Xi-RBF-et-al.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf2024\_Survey Nonresponse B...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-01/2024_Survey%20Nonresponse%20Bias_MS_Rhodes-Xi-RBF-et-al.pdf) Freeman RB, Pan X, Yang X, Ye M. [Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106986). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2025. Freeman RB, Pan X, Yang X, Ye M. [Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106986). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2025. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ picture\_as\_pdfRevision 1\_TeamIncentives...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-03/Revision%201_TeamIncentives__Dec16_2024_Final.pdf) Despite a large literature on team incentives, studies on teams in a purely financial sense are limited. In such environments, team members independently engage in tasks with identifiable individual contributions, while their compensation is partially... - [ picture\_as\_pdfRevision 1\_TeamIncentives...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/2025-03/Revision%201_TeamIncentives__Dec16_2024_Final.pdf) ### 2024 Freeman RB, Xie D, Zhang H, Zhou H. [High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists](/publication/high-and-rising-institutional-concentration-award-winning-economists). In: NBER Summer Institute - The Science of Science Funding. 2024. Freeman RB, Xie D, Zhang H, Zhou H. [High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists](/publication/high-and-rising-institutional-concentration-award-winning-economists). In: NBER Summer Institute - The Science of Science Funding. 2024. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract We analyze the institutional clustering of award-winning researchers. We collect nearly 300,000 annual education and career affiliations of nearly 6,000 award-winning researchers across 18 major academic fields in the natural sciences, engineering, and... Xu H, Blasi JR, Kruse DL, Freeman RB. [Employee Ownership, Employment, and Work-from-Home in the Covid-19 Shock to the US Job Market, NBER WP 33310 ](https://www.nber.org/papers/w33310). 2024. Xu H, Blasi JR, Kruse DL, Freeman RB. [Employee Ownership, Employment, and Work-from-Home in the Covid-19 Shock to the US Job Market, NBER WP 33310 ](https://www.nber.org/papers/w33310). 2024. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract To what extent, if at all, did employee-owned (EO) firms maintain jobs for workers compared to non-EO firms in the spring 2020 Covid-19 shock to the US economy? Did EO firms shift jobs from workplaces to work-from-home locations in the pandemic more or... Zhou S, Chai S, Freeman RB. [Gender Homophily: In-Group Citation Preferences and the Gender Disadvantage](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104895). Research Policy. 2024;53:1. Zhou S, Chai S, Freeman RB. [Gender Homophily: In-Group Citation Preferences and the Gender Disadvantage](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104895). Research Policy. 2024;53:1. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Based on an extensive sample of articles in the life sciences, we find that gender homophily in forward citations is substantial: compared to men-led articles (i.e., those with men as either the first or last author), women-led articles receive fewer... ### 2023 Blackburn B, Chan T, Cherot E, Freeman RB, Hu X, Matt E, Rhodes CA. [Beyond Burnout: from Measuring to Forecasting](/publications/beyond-burnout-measuring-forecasting-0). 2023. Blackburn B, Chan T, Cherot E, Freeman RB, Hu X, Matt E, Rhodes CA. [Beyond Burnout: from Measuring to Forecasting](/publications/beyond-burnout-measuring-forecasting-0). 2023. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30895) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_31jan23\_beyond\_burno...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_31jan23_beyond_burnout_blackburn-etal.pdf) Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems, potentially costing billions of dollars. Knowledge of the determinants and costs of burnout at the organization level is sparse, making it... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30895) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_31jan23\_beyond\_burno...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_31jan23_beyond_burnout_blackburn-etal.pdf) Xie Q, Freeman RB. [Creating and Connecting US and China Science: Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers](/publications/creating-and-connecting-us-and-china-science-chinese-diaspora-and-returnee). 2023. Xie Q, Freeman RB. [Creating and Connecting US and China Science: Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers](/publications/creating-and-connecting-us-and-china-science-chinese-diaspora-and-returnee). 2023. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w31306) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_2024.01.20\_wp31306\_c...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_2024.01.20_wp31306_createconnect_chinadiasporareturnee.pdf) The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US (“diaspora”) and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w31306) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_2024.01.20\_wp31306\_c...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_2024.01.20_wp31306_createconnect_chinadiasporareturnee.pdf) Freeman RB, Yang B, Zhang B. [“Data Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth,”75 (March 2023): ](/publications/%E2%80%9Cdata-deepening-and-nonbalanced-economic-growth%E2%80%9D75-march-2023). Journal of Macroeconomics. 2023;75(March). Freeman RB, Yang B, Zhang B. [“Data Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth,”75 (March 2023): ](/publications/%E2%80%9Cdata-deepening-and-nonbalanced-economic-growth%E2%80%9D75-march-2023). Journal of Macroeconomics. 2023;75(March). - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103503) As a newly emerging factor, data can promote economic growth by driving technological progress, and nonbalanced growth between digital [industries](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/specific-industry) and nondigital [industries](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/specific-industry) has been notable in recent years. This paper provides a novel growth model with two... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103503) ### 2022 Barth E, Davis JC, Freeman RB, McElheran K. [Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce.](/publications/twisting-demand-curve-digitalization-and-older-workforce) 2022. Barth E, Davis JC, Freeman RB, McElheran K. [Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce.](/publications/twisting-demand-curve-digitalization-and-older-workforce) 2022. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.12.003) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_twisting\_demand\_curv...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_twisting_demand_curve_barth-davis-freeman-mcelheran_12nov20.pdf) Software represents a major and fast-growing share of firms’ capital investment, impacting demand for labor and what workers do on their jobs. Using U.S. Census Bureau panel data that link firms and workers, this paper estimates the effect of firm... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.12.003) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_twisting\_demand\_curv...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_twisting_demand_curve_barth-davis-freeman-mcelheran_12nov20.pdf) Freeman RB. [“Planning for the “Expected Unexpected”: Work and Retirement in the US After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock,” NBER WP # 29653 (January 2022)](/publications/%E2%80%9Cplanning-%E2%80%9Cexpected-unexpected%E2%80%9D-work-and-retirement-us-after-covid-19-pandemic-0). 2022. Freeman RB. [“Planning for the “Expected Unexpected”: Work and Retirement in the US After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock,” NBER WP # 29653 (January 2022)](/publications/%E2%80%9Cplanning-%E2%80%9Cexpected-unexpected%E2%80%9D-work-and-retirement-us-after-covid-19-pandemic-0). 2022. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w29653) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_31jan22\_planning\_for...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_31jan22_planning_for_expected_unexpected_workretirement_after_covid_wp-version.pdf) This chapter analyzes the implications of the unexpected 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic for work and retirement in the U.S. The pandemic induced the greatest loss of jobs in the shortest period of time in U.S. history. A slow economic recovery would... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.nber.org/papers/w29653) - [ picture\_as\_pdfdash\_31jan22\_planning\_for...](/sites/g/files/omnuum5896/files/freeman/files/dash_31jan22_planning_for_expected_unexpected_workretirement_after_covid_wp-version.pdf) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 57 ](?page=56 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")