NBER Working Papers Cited in the Press

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This archive includes only citations posted in 2001. 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

AGB Trusteeship

8378

Keep Senior Faculty or Urge Them to Retire

Orley Ashenfelter, David Card

Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Atlantic Monthly Online

7322

The Early-Decision Racket

Stacy Berg Dale, Alan B. Krueger

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

Boston Globe

8182

Look out Below

Edward E. Leamer

The Life Cycle of US Economic Expansions

Business Week

8577	Economic Trends - Not So Fixated on Bequests	Charles Yuji Horioka	Are the Japanese Selfish, Altruistic, or Dynastic?
8578	Economic Trends - Lost Job, Lost Spouse	Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr.	Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce
8587	Economic Trends - Better Health Boosts GNP	David E. Bloom, David Canning, Jaypee Sevilla	The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence
8517	The Center Must Hold, For the city's economy, critical mass matters more than ever	Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein	Bones, Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity
8461	Nationalism Can Hurt Trade	Anna Maria Mayda, Dani Rodrik	Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?
8478	Will Investors Shun The U.S.?	Alberto Abadie, Javier Gardeazabal	The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country
8378	Old Professors Don't Fade Away	Orley Ashenfelter, David Card	Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?
8055	What Makes Sally Learn	David N. Figlio, Marianne E. Page	School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Equality?
7985	What Makes Sally Learn	David N. Figlio, Maurice E. Lucas	Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance?
8295	Economic Trends - Why Americans Grow Apart	Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn	Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998
8358	Economic Trends - Have Stocks, Will Babble	Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Jeremy C. Stein	Social Interaction and Stock-Market Participation
8271	Economic Trends - The Boom That Concealed A Bust	Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff	Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry
8051	Economic Trends - Why Americans Work So Hard	Linda A. Bell, Richard B. Freeman	The Incentive for Working Hard: Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
7980	Economic Trends	Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider, Harvey S. Rosen	Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms
8111	Flexibility is No Key to Stability	Peter Cappelli, David Neumark	External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility
8092	Stocks May Take another Hit	John H. Boyd, Ravi Jagannathan, Jian Hu	The Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment News: Why Bad News is Usually Good for Stocks
8052	Funny Money, or Real Incentive?	Brian J. Hall, Kevin J. Murphy	Stock Options for Undiversified Executives
8050	Is Breeding Contentment Worth the Investment?	Richard B. Freeman, Morris M. Kleiner, Cheri Ostroff	The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and Its Effects on Firms and Workers

The Digest

8760

Hard times, not hard liquor; A new study finds that economic slumps don't lead to heavier drinking

Eric Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik

Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam

eCompany Now

8143

Leading Questions: House for Sale. Owner Anxious

David Genesove, Christopher Mayer

Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market

The Economist

8097	Another look at Productivity	William D. Nordhaus	New Data and Output Concepts for Understanding Productivity Trends
8096	Another look at Productivity	William D. Nordhaus	Productivity Growth and the New Economy
8095	Another look at Productivity	William D. Nordhaus	Alternative Methods for Measuring Productivity Growth

The Financial Times

7717	Prizes for Saving Lives; Drug companies will not develop new vaccines unless they are rewarded for it	Michael Kremer	Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part II: Design Issues
7716	Prizes for Saving Lives; Drug companies will not develop new vaccines unless they are rewarded for it	Michael Kremer	Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale
8066	Lex: Venture Capital	John H. Cochrane	The Risk and Return of Venture Capital
8017	Businesses show net loss: The internet has reduced costs but consumers are the ones that are benefiting	Luis Garicano, Steven N. Kaplan	The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs
7996	Businesses show net loss: The internet has reduced costs but consumers are the ones that are benefiting	Jeffrey R. Brown, Austan Goolsbee	Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?
8045	When ignorance is the best policy	Amy Finkelstein, James Poterba	Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: Policyholder Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

Forbes Today

7892

Slow Starters

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio LopezdeSilanes, Andrei Shleifer

The Regulation of Entry

International Herald Tribune

7833

Checking New-Economy Claims

Robert Gordon

Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

Investors Chronicle

8092

Market Strategy: US Equities - Ending The Class War

John H. Boyd, Ravi Jagannathan, Jian Hu

The Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment News: Why Bad News is Usually Good for Stocks

Prospect Magazine

8299

Infantile Leftist

Robert E. Lipsey, Fredrik Sjoholm

Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing

The New York Times

7521	Economic Scene: For Too Many, Social Security Is Main Retirement Plan	Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise	Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
8517	Reckonings; An Injured City	Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein	Bones, Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity
7521	Economic Scene: Market Risks Could Hurt the Social Security Safety Net	Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise	Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
8092	Strategies: Beneath the Stock-Market Rebound, Hints of Trouble	John H. Boyd, Ravi Jagannathan, Jian Hu	The Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment News: Why Bad News is Usually Good for Stocks
7423	Economic Scene: Americans' waistlines have become the victims of economic progress.	Tomas J. Philipson, Richard A. Posner	The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

The Wall Street Journal

8478	Minor Memos	Alberto Abadie, Javier Gardeazabal	The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country
8478	Antiterror Struggle Won't Help Economy As Did Past Conflicts, Say Most Experts.	Alberto Abadie, Javier Gardeazabal	The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country
7537	Want To Sue HMOs? It'll Cost You.	Daniel P. Kessler, Mark B. McClellan	Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine
8166	Silver Lining: Amid Devastation, Many Still See Gains In Burst Tech Bubble --- Even Sufferers Cite the Value Of Innovation and Base For Longer-Term Growth --- Looking Again to the Fed	Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau	Vintage Organization Capital
7866	Mr. Bush's ABC's	Caroline Hoxby	Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?

The Washington Post

8639

Murderous Pardons

H. Naci Mocan and R. Kaj Gittings

Pardons, Executions and Homicide

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