M E M O R A N D U M


TO:       Authors of Papers at NBER Conferences and Meetings
FROM:     Kirsten Foss Davis
DATE:     October 12, 2000
RE:       Abstracts

     I understand that you have agreed to present a paper at this upcoming Bureau
conference/meeting.

     Please be sure to send us a one paragraph abstract of your paper that we can
use in an article about the meeting in the NBER Reporter. The abstract should
emphasize your main findings and would be written in the non-technical style of an
executive summary.

     You should e-mail your abstract to Donna Zerwitz, NBER Director of Public
Information.  Her address is zerwitz@nber.org.  Please use either WordPerfect/PDF or
MsWord.

     Also, please let us know if you would like to have your paper made available on
the NBER's Conference Department web page.

     If you are unable to send your abstract or summary via e-mail, we can arrange
to have them electronically scanned and edited prior to publication.  So we ask that
you please double space and use a fairly large and regular type face (i.e. at least 10
point type and no italics).