NBER Working Papers Cited in the Press

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This archive includes only citations posted in 2000. See the Working Paper citations page for other postings.

This 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.

WP Number

Press Title

Authors

NBER Working Paper Title

American Banker

Book In Progress

Study: Market a Weak Cop

Robert Bliss and Mark Flannery

Market Discipline in Governance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies: Monitoring vs. Influencing

Business Week

H124	Maybe The Euro Isn't A Stumblebum	Hugh Rockoff	How Long Did It Take the United States to Become an Optimal Currency Area?
7964	Solving a Global Growth Enigma	Eli Berman	Does Factor-Biased Technological Change Stifle International Covergence? Evidence from Manufacturing
7931	The Gender Gap in Top Brass Pay	Marianne Bertrand and Kevin F. Hallock	The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs
7841	Thinner Paychecks for Obese Women?	John Cawley	Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes
7853	E-Monetary Policy	Michael D. Woodford	Monetary Policy in a World Without Money
7838	How To Stop Kids' Smoking	Donna B. Gilleskie and Koleman S. Strumpf	The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking
7742	The Skinny On Downsizing	Peter Cappelli	Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance
7732	Closing The Pay Gap	Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn	Gender Differences in Pay
7703	Getting Higher in High School	R.L. Pacula, M.Grossman, F.J. Chaloupka, P.M. O'Malley, L. Johnston, M.C. Farrelly	Marijuana and Youth
7682	How People Decide To Save: Choices aren't always rational	Brigitte C. Madrian and Dennis F. Shea	The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior
7676	U.S. Justice: Not Entirely Blind	Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote	The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance
7662	The Smoothing Effect of Taxes	Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel R. Feenberg	The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers
7651	A Coming Social Security Battle? Limiting early retirees' earnings	Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber	Social Security Incentives for Retirement
7613	This Alchemy May Yield Real Gold	Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky, and Jiang Wang	Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation
7604	Did the CEO Deserve a Raise?	Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan	Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
7545	A Better Life for our Kids	Eli Berman and Zaur Rzakhanov	Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
7506	Teen Smoking: Price Matters	Jonathan Gruber	Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Prices and Policies
7487	Does Money Buy Happiness?	David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald	Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
7432	Will the Euro Fuel Trade?	Andrew K. Rose	One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
7200	A Coming Social Security Battle? Limiting early retirees' earnings	Leora Friedberg	The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test
7073	It's About Jobs, Stupid	Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers III	Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion
6846	The New Economy	Samuel Kortum, Josh Lerner	Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?

Canadian National Post

7423

Economic theory of waistline inflation

Tomas J. Philipson, Richard A. Posner

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Christian Science Monitor

7967

Academics, not candidates, exchange fire on guns

Mark Duggan

More Guns, More Crime

Chronicle of Higher Education

7322

Stacy Berg Dale and
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

CNN

7423

World News

Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

The Economist

8009	Going too far in support of trade	Mihir Desai and James Hines	The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax
7777	New Solutions, New Questions	Maurice Obstfeld, Kenneth Rogoff	The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics: Is There a Common Cause?
7765		Shang-Jin Wei	Natural Openness and Good Government
7602	A Century of Progress	J. Bradford DeLong	Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
7569	A Century of Progress	J. Bradford DeLong	The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History
6383	Gimme Shelter	Rosanne Altshuler, Harry Grubert, T. Scott Newlon	Has U.S. Investment Abroad Become More Sensitive to Tax Rates?

The Financial Times

7969	Investors see corruption as a barrier	Beata K. Smarzynska, Shang-Jin Wei	Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence
7798	Japan wrestles its conscience	Mark Duggan and Steven D. Levitt	Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling
7757	The Lure of the American Way	Richard B. Freeman	The US Economic Model at Y2K: Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?
7666	Survey Examines Working Mothers	Christopher Ruhm	Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development
7432	COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Europe's growth opportunity	Andrew K. Rose	One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
6255		Shang-Jin Wei	Why is Corruption So Much More Taxing Than Tax? Arbitrariness Kills
5978	Kicking Down Growth's Ladder	Sebastian Edwards	Openness, Productivity and Growth: What Do We Really Know?

Fortune Magazine

7527	Not So Fast. Sex, Drugs, and Career Choices	Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz	The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
7521	The Estate Tax Is One Death Penalty Too Many	Steven Venti and David Wise	Choice, Chance, And Wealth Dispersion At Retirement
7322	Is Harvard Worth It?	Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger	Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

FOX

7423

Fox News

Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Harvard Business Review

6966		Steven G. Allen, Robert L. Clark, Sylvester J. Schieber	Has Job Security Vanished in Large Corporations?
6863		Austan Goolsbee	In a World Without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

International Herald Tribune

NBER Reporter	It's Not Too Late, Economist Contends, to Catch the Technology Wave -- JAMES K. GLASSMAN'S WORLD OF INVESTING	Boyan Jovanovic	Technology and the Stock Market
7375	Looking Back at Unparalled Progress	Charles I. Jones	Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

7684

Perils of progress

Bart Hobijn, Boyan Jovanovic

The Information Technology Revolution and the Stock Market: Evidence

Italian Financial Daily

7517

Martin Feldstein

The European Central Bank and the Euro: The First Year

Korea Herald

7428	Current slump in blue-chip prices traced to past abuse of minority shareholders	Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-deSilanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny	Investor Protection: Origins, Consequences, and Reform
6951	Minority investors set to challenge chaebol at shareholders' meetings	Lucian Bebchuk, Reinier Kraakman, George Triantis	Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and the Dual Class Equity: The Creation and Agency Costs of Seperating Control from Cash Flow Rights

MSNBC

7129

For safety, raise the price of beer?

Michael Grossman, Sara Markowitz

Alcohol Regulation and Violence on College Campuses

The New York Times

7868	Reckonings; California Screaming	Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, Frank Wolak	Diagnosing Market Power in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market
7600	Economic Scene	Josh Lerner, Jean Triole	The Simple Economics of Open Source
7322	Economic Scene	Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger	Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables
7167	Economic Scene: Like It or Not, Appearance Counts in the Workplace	Daniel S. Hamermesh, Xin Meng, Junsen Zhang	Dress for Success -- Does Primping Pay?
6083		Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff Biddle	Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital
5366		Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff Biddle	Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre
4518		Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff Biddle	Beauty and the Labor Market
6856	Economic Scene	Nada Eissa and Hillary Williamson Hoynes	The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
5023	Economic Scene	Nada Eissa	Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a Natural Experiment

Staffing Industry Report

7557	" 'Unjust Dismissal' Fosters Temp Growth"	David H. Autor	Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
7557	New Research Says Employment-At-Will Erosion Benefits Temps	David H. Autor	Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
7427	Federal Reserve Study Says Temporary Help May Corrupt Productivity Data	Marcello M. Estevao, Saul Lach	The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States
7421	Foundation Report Dispels 'Permatemp' Myths	Marcello Estevao, Saul Lach	Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing

TheStandard.com

7878

Trading for Retirement

James J. Choi, David Laibson, Andrew Metrick

Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

Upside

6204

Net Patent Fights May Yield Surprises

Samuel Kortum, Josh Lerner

Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?

The Wall Street Journal

7521 and Digest	Rich or Poor	Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise	Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
7383	Work Week	Stephen L. Mehay and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula	The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?

The Washington Post

8031

Consensus Sought on Tax Cuts

David T. Ellwood and
Jeffrey B. Liebman

The Middle Class Parent Penalty: Child Benefits in the U.S. Tax Code

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