NBER Working Papers Cited in the PressThis is a partial list of NBER Working Papers cited in the press. If you are aware of any omissions, please email us. Whenever possible, include the name of the publication, title of the article, name of the NBER authors, and NBER Working Paper number. This list includes citations posted in 2008 and 2007. See our archives for 1998, 1999, 2000 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 postings. | Authors | NBER Working Paper Title |
Akron Beacon Journal
| January 16, 2007 | Foreign investment driving bond rates | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
American Medical News
| March 26, 2007 | Younger baby boomers report poorer overall health | 12762 | Beth J. Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily, John F. McCabe | Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement |
Beyond Chron
| January 10, 2008 | School Beat: A new Look at Dropout and Graduation Rates | 13670 | James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine | The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels |
Bloomberg.com
| October 15, 2007 | Treasury Sales May Rise 50% as Deficit Suddenly Grows (Update2) | 11774 | Qiang Dai, Thomas Philippon | Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates |
| May 21, 2007 | Now may not be the Time to Pay Down the Mortgage:John F. Wasik | 12502 | Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm | The Tradeoff Between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings |
Boston Globe
| March 23, 2008 | Uncommon Knowledge - Surprising insights from the social sciences | 13264 | Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer | The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks |
| December 7, 2007 | Contract clauses called stifling | 11710 | Bruce Fallick, Charles A. Fleischmann, James B. Rebitzer | Job Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster |
| April 24, 2007 | Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle? | 12935 | David G. Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald | Why are these people smiling? They've reached middle age |
| January 28, 2007 | US Tax Dispaarity may be Flatter than it Seems | 12533 | Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David Rapson | Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving |
| January 24, 2007 | Foreign investment is helping keep long-term interest rates down | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
Business Week
| April 9, 2007 | More Aches and Pains for the Over-50s | 12762 | Beth J. Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily, John F. McCabe | Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement |
www.Business-standard.com
| April 7, 2008 | The Citations Game | 13891 | Joshua Aizenman, Kenneth Kletzer | The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax" |
| February 8, 2008 | History always repeats itself | 13761 | Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff | Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison |
CBS News
| December 6, 2007 | Laid-Off workers face increased premature death risk: study | 13626 | Daniel Sullivan, Till von Wachter | Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data |
| Put it On TV and They Will Vote Republican | 12169 | Stefano DellaVigna, Ethan Kaplan | The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting |
Centre Daily Times
| March 26, 2007 | Boomer health debated | 12762 | Beth J. Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily, John F. McCabe | Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement |
CFO.com
| February 13, 2007 | Study: Sarbox Curbs Fraud Whistleblowing | 12882 | Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales | Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? |
Chicago Tribune
| September 3, 2007 | Rethinking the boob tube | 13305 | Robert Jensen, Emily Oster | The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India |
January 2, 2007 |
The Myth of Job Insecurity | 11878 | Ann Huff Stevens | The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Trends in Long-term Employment in the United States, 1969-2002 |
China Post
| April 10, 2008 | Euro reserves may top dollar in next 7 years: economists | 13909 | Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffrey A. Frankel | The Euro May Over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency |
The Christian Science Monitor
| December 31, 2007 | Economists cover everything from fertility to football in 2007 | 13323 | Daniel M. Hungerman | Race and Charitable Church Activity |
| December 31, 2007 | Economists cover everything from fertility to football in 2007 | 13583 | David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Jocelyn E. Finlay | Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend |
| December 31, 2007 | Economists cover everything from fertility to football in 2007 | 13548 | Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer | Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending |
| December 31, 2007 | Economists cover everything from fertility to football in 2007 | 13355 | Stefano DellaVigna, Eliana La Ferrara | Detecting Illegal Arms Trade |
| December 31, 2007 | Economists cover everything from fertility to football in 2007 | 13477 | David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser | Social Interactions and Smoking |
Corvallis Gazette-Times
January 16, 2007 |
Why do long-term rates stay so low? | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
Dallas News
January 2, 2007 |
The Majic Words to a House Sale | 11053 | Steven D. Levitt, Chad Syverson | Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions |
DetNews.com
| May 07, 2007 | Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle? | 12935 | David G. Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald | Middle age first brings unhappiness, and then a sense of well-being |
| December 23, 2007 | Stagnant Graduation Rates Threaten State's Rebound | 13670 | James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine | The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels |
Economist - UK
| February 28, 2008 | Hope from a pill | 12906 | Jens Ludwig, Dave E. Marcotte, Karen Norberg | Anti-depressants and Suicide |
The Economic Times
| February 11, 2008 | Sink or swim together is new CDS mantra | 13658 | Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan, Lasse H. Pedersen, Kenneth J. Singleton | How Sovereign is Sovereign Credit Risk? |
| January 2, 2008 | Cable TV, a tool for Social Change | 13305 | Robert Jensen, Emily Oster | The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India |
| February 26, 2007 | Securing Budget for future FMs | 12876 | Frederic S. Mishkin, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel | Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference? |
The Epoch Times
| December 29, 2007 | Debunking the 'McJob' Stereotype | 13327 | Peter Cappelli, Monika Hamori | Are Franchises Bad Employers? |
Financial Week
January 14, 2008 |
Slowdown could alter debt | 13706 | Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, Michael Weisbach | What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues? |
Forbes.com
February 11, 2008 |
In the Middle Ages you couldn't be a baker unless you were admitted to the guild. In Louisiana you can't sell flowers. | 11510 | Morris M. Kleiner, Richard M. Todd | Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers |
Gulfnews.com
December 15, 2007 |
Battered on the floor, nearly wiped out, but not yet trashed | 11510 | Menzie Chinn, Jeffrey Frankel | Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency? |
Hawaii Reporter
| March 11, 2007 | A Higher Minimum Wage Equals Less Economic Freedom | 12915 | David Neumark, William Wascher | Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era |
Hartford Advocate
| April 17, 2008 | The Governor's Strikes, Back | 13784 | Radha Iyengar | I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws |
Herald Tribune
| June 10, 2007 | Quantifying the role of old-school ties in investing | 13121 | Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy | The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns |
| May 18, 2007 | Stategies: Pray for a Public Buyer | 13061 | Leonce Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, Rene M. Stulz, Chad Zutter | Why Do Private Acquirers Pay So Little Compared to Public Acquirers? |
The Hindu
| December 21, 2007 | Do Tax Cuts Impact Government Spending | 13548 | Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer | Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending |
Inside Higher Education
| August 28, 2007 | Don't Just Follow the Money | 13340 | Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner | The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study |
| March 2, 2007 | A U.S. News Effect on College Funding? | 12941 | Ginger Zhe Jin, Alex Whalley | The Power of Information: How Do U.S. News Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges? |
Investment News
| March 19, 2007 | Time to abolish quarterly earnings estimates | 10550 | John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, Shiva Rajgopal | The Economic Implications of Corporate Financial Reporting |
Investors.com
| February 22, 2007 | Government Vs. Economic Growth: Taking Account Of The Real Costs | 12201 | Martin Feldstein | The Effect of Taxes on Efficiency and Growth |
Livemint.com
| January 5, 2008 | In earning season, does analyst outlook work? | 13124 | Ulrike Malmendier, Devin Shanthikumar | Do Security Analysts Speak in Two Tongues? |
MSNBC
January 9, 2007 |
Lose Weight by Having Fun in the Bedroom | 10499 | David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald | Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study |
Napa Valley Register
January 16, 2007 |
Smoking Bans Becoming Business Opportunities | 11938 | Rosemary Avery, Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard, Alan Mathios | Private Profits and Public Health: Does Advertising Smoking Cessation Products Encourage Smokers to Quit? |
National Center for Policy Analysis
January 16, 2007 |
INCOME DISTRIBUTION -- OR LACK THEREOF | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
January 16, 2007 |
FLOWS AND RATES | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
The Observer
| February 25, 2007 | Economics of the suicide bomber | 12910 | Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi | Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers |
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 2007 |
On Personal Finance | What's keeping long term rates down, and why | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
Physorg.com
| June 10, 2007 | Early voters hold most Power in Primaries, say Brown Economists | 13637 | Brian Knight, Nathan Schiff | Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries |
Portfolio.Com
| February 14, 2008 | Odd Numbers | 13796 | B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer | How Much Value Do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study |
| November 14, 2007 | The real cost of Smoking | 13599 | W. Kip Viscusi, Joni Hersch | The Mortality Cost to Smokers |
| September 27, 2007 | Odd Numbers | 13443 | Julie Berry Cullen, Brian A. Jacob | Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries |
The Press of Atlantic City
| January 20, 2008 | Economic relief / Ok, go shopping | 10784 | David S. Johnson, Jonathan A. Parker, Nicholas S. Souleles | Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001 |
| November, 2007 | Let' em Roam | 13229 | Kristin F. Butcher, Anne Morrison Piehl | Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation |
| November, 2007 | Does 21 Save Lives? | 13257 | Jeffrey A. Miron, Elina Tetelbaum | Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives? |
Rutland Herald
| June 5, 2007 | More Advice that College Grads don't want to hear | 12981 | Jonathan Skinner | Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement? |
Salem-News.com
| May 21, 2007 | New Research Shows Parents of Students in High-Poverty Schools Value Teach Raise Achievement | 11494 | Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren | What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers |
Seattle Times
January 16, 2007 |
What keeps interest rates low? Foreign investment | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
Scoop, Independent News
| March 26, 2007 | Get It Straight: Repeal Section 59 And Help To Cut Crime | 12171 | Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin | Does Child Abuse Cause Crime? |
Sydney Morning Herald
| May 25, 2007 | Gunning for Democracy works, just don't miss | 13102 | Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken | Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War |
| December 24, 2007 | Marked for Life by the Great Leap Forward | 13384 | Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang | Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong |
Tallahassee.com
| April 24, 2007 | Cut Taxes, and spending will save the day | 11494 | Nada Wasi, Michelle J. White | Property Tax Limitations and Mobility: The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13 |
Telegraph.co.uk
| May 14, 2007 | US Miracle due to hi-tech skills | 13085 | Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen | Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle |
TimesOnline
| June 30, 2007 | Workers of the World Lose Out as Pay Gap Grows ever Wider | 11842 | Ian Dew-Becker, Robert J. Gordon | Where Did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income |
The New Nation, Bangladesh's Independent News Source
| November 2, 2007 | Measuring happiness and satisfaction | 12934 | David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald | Hypertension and Happiness across Nations |
The New York Post
February 5, 2008 |
Losing by Saving | 13358 | Baoping Shang, Dana P. Goldman | Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending |
February 5, 2008 |
Losing by Saving | 8996 | Frank Lichtenberg | Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: An Update |
The New York Times
| July 31, 2007 | In All Things Moderation, Icluding Market Timing | 13165 | Jessica A. Wachter, Missaka Warusawitharana | Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market? |
| May 31, 2007 | More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive | 11842 | Ian Dew-Becker, Robert J. Gordon | Where Did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income |
| May 29, 2007 | Baby Boomers are CAshing In. So What? | 13083 | James Poterba, Steven Venti, David A. Wise | New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(k) Assets |
| May 13, 2007 | Shareholders Benefit When Managers Have a Serious Stake | 13061 | Leonce Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, Rene M. Stulz, Chad Zutter | Why Do Private Acquirers Pay So Little Compared to Public Acquirers? |
| May 2, 2007 | Do Your Homework (or Buy an Index Fund) | 13042 | Jonathan B. Berk, Ian Tonks | Return Persistence and Fund Flows in the Worst Performing Mutual Funds |
| March 29, 2007 | Irresponsible’ Mortgages Have Opened Doors to Many of the Excluded | 12967 | Kristopher Gerardi, Harvey S. Rosen, Paul Willen | Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market |
| March 5, 2007 | The Ailing — or Wailing — Baby Boomers | 12762 | Beth J. Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily, John F. McCabe | Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement |
| January 24, 2007 | Foreign investment is helping keep long-term interest rates down | 12560 | Francis E. Warnock, Veronica Cacdac Warnock | International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates |
January 16, 2007 |
Investors without Borders | 12389 | Bong-Chan Kho, René M. Stulz, Francis E. Warnock | Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home Bias |
United Press International
| March 24, 2008 | Negative U.S. media linked to increased insurgent attacks | 13839 | Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten | Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq |
US News and World Report
January 15, 2007 |
Yes, Pay Really Does Matter | 12202 | Alexandre Mas | Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance |
The Wall Street Journal
| February 27, 2008 | Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says | 13678 | Matthew Kotchen and Michael Moore | Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium |
| December 12, 2007 | Drop in Smoking Is a Boom, But Impact of Obesity Grows | 13013 | David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Allison B. Rosen | Is the US Population Behaving Healthier? |
| November 5, 2007 | Marriage Undergoes Change, Causing Drop in Divorces | 12944 | Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers | Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces |
| October 18, 2007 | Economists Poses Another Way to Look at Age | 13476 | John B. Shoven | New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP |
| October 17, 2007 | A Central Banker's Dissent: Job Loss Worse Than Inflation | 13505 | David G. Blanchflower | Is Unemployment More Costly Than Inflation? |
| September 18, 2007 | Why Europeans Work Less than Most Americans | 12889 | Richard Rogerson | Structural Transformation and the Deterioration of European Labor Market Outcomes |
| February 5, 2007 | How to Value a Visa and Draw Tax Revenue | 12315 | Richard B. Freeman | People Flows in Globalization |
WebMD Medical News
| March 6, 2007 | Baby Boomers in Bad Shape: Study Shows Boomers in Poorer Health Than Pre-World War II Group at Same Age | 12762 | Beth J. Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell, Rania Tfaily, John F. McCabe | Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement |
Wilmington Morning Star
| March 19, 2007 | War costs soar, but experts say it's affordable | 12092 | Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel | War in Iraq versus Containment |
Wilson Quarterly
| Autumn, 2007 | The Myth of the Master's Degree | 12828 | Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor | How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? |
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