NBER Working Papers Cited in the Press

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This archive includes only citations posted in 2002. 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

Australian Financial Review

8639

Death Penalty Doesn't Have the Numbers.

H. Naci Mocan and R. Kaj Gittings

Pardons, Executions and Homicide

Barron's Online

9237

Ya Gotta Believe: Religion and Free Markets May Go Hand-in-Hand

Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales

People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

Boston Globe

9024

Kicking Around New Math

David Romer

It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

Business Week

9120	Really Grand Openings	Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, C.J. Krizan	The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth: Evidence from Retail Trade
8963	A New Look At Exchange Rates	Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff	The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: A Reinterpretation
8933	Poverty: The News Brightens	Xavier Sala-i-Martin	The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)
8910	Empolyment's Altered State	David Neumark, Deborah Reed	Employment Relationships in the New Economy
8816	The "Dumb Investor" Effect	Malcolm Baker, Jeremy C. Stein	Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator

CNN/Money

8511

Study: Free trade cuts child labor

Christopher J. Ruhm, William E. Black

Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

The Digest

8873

Choice Helps Public Schools

Caroline M. Hoxby

School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)

Dow Jones Newswires

9404	Study Tracks Stock Market Gyrations And Retirement Rates	Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier	Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble
9361	CAPITAL VIEWS: War As 'The Ultimate Negative-Sum Game'	William D. Nordhaus	The Economic Consequences of a War in Iraq

The Economist

9068

Taken for a Ride

Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

Employee Benefit News Magazine

8147

Medical offset for Rx costs remains elusive

Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: Evidence from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

ERaider Online

8814

Tipper Gore, James K. Polk and the Holdup Problem

Howard Bodenhorn

Partnership and Hold-Up in Early America

The Financial Times

8946	Land of the Fat	Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson	The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination
9308	Bush should cut taxes for the right reason	Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel Slemrod	Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys
9068	Ill-judged incentives	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
9068	Curbs on Covetousness: Envy can make Capitalism more Efficient and Help to Restrain Executive Pay	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
8697	White House economists signal market bias	David Dranove, Daniel Kessler, Mark McClellan, Mark Satterthwaite	Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers
8661	Curbs on Covetousness: Envy Can Make Capitalism More Efficient and Help to Restrain Executive Pay THEORY AND PRACTICE	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

Forbes

9449

Do These Votes Violate a Federal Law?

Steven D. Levitt

Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"

Foreign Policy

9019

IN BOX - The Roaring 1890s

Michael D. Bordo, Antu Panini Murshid

Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets

The New York Times

9202	If the Rich are Becoming Richer, are They also Buying Relatively More Stuff?	Dirk Krueger, Fabrizio Perri	Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory
8946	Employment and Prosperity Affect Body Inflation	Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson	The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination
9024	Strategies on Fourth Down, From a Mathematical Point of View	David Romer	It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy
8661	The Outrage Constraint	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?
8467	Economic Scene:When it comes to income inequality, more than just market forces are at work.	Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez	Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
8835	Economic Scene:Where It's Easier to Buy a Home	Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko	The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability

U.S. News and World Report

9068

Masters of the Universe

Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

The Wall Street Journal

9216	Washington Wire: Minor Memos	Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner, Sara Markowitz	Get High and Get Stupid: The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior
9068	Business World: Outrageous CEO Pay Revisited	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
8974	Harvard Trio Says Staggered Terms for Boards Erode Shareholder Value	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV, Guhan Subramanian	The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence and Policy

The Washington Post

9197	Unconventional Wisdom. Less Wealth, More Health	Stephen E. Snyder, William N. Evans	The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch
9108	Unconventional Wisdom. The Spillover Effect	Enrico Moretti	Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence From Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Sectional Data
9068	Too Soft on Stock Options	Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker	Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
9033	Undepressing Findings About Retirement Article	Kerwin Kofi Charles	Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

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