NBER Working Papers Cited in the Press

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This archive includes only citations posted in 2003. 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

TheBostonChannel.com

9468

Healthy Living in Hard Times

Christopher J. Ruhm

Economist: Recessions May Boost Your Health, Study Says Rise In Unemployment Reduces Death Rate

Business Week

9545	Is Inflation Set to Surge? The Fed could be in for a nasty surprise.	Joshua D. Angrist, Jonathan Guryan	Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements
9873	What's in a Name For Black Job Seekers?	Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan	Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
9938	What's in a Name For Black Job Seekers?	Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Steven D. Levitt	The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
9091	Medicare: Forget the Drug Benefit, and Face Up to Real Reforms	Mark Duggan	Does Contracting Out Increase the Efficiency of Government Programs? Evidence from Medicaid HMOs

Chronicle of Higher Education

9482	Students Don't Always Respond Rationally to Financial-Aid Offers, Economists Find	Christopher Avery, Caroline M. Hoxby	Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?
9074	Seeking the Roots of Terrorism	Alan B. Krueger, Jitka Maleckova	Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?

Dow Jones Newswires

9636

Study: Mid-Sized Airports Most Hurt By Airline Bankruptcy

Severin Borenstein, Nancy L. Rose

Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

The Financial Times

9067

US states face long-term budget shortfalls

Bruce Baker, Daniel Besendorfer, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intertemporal State Budgeting

Staffing Industry Report

9530

What's Hot, What's Not: Productivity Pickup

Martin Feldstein

Why is Productivity Growing Faster?

The New York Times

9247	Belt-Loosening in the Work Force	Shin-Yi Chou,Michael Grossman,Henry Saffer	An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
7647	Big Federal Deficits, Bigger Risks	Benjamin M. Friedman	What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance?

The Wall Street Journal

10124	Study: Regulations,Neighbors To Blame For NYC Home Costs	Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Raven Saks	Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices
9848	Nobel Econometricians	Martin Lettau, Sydney Ludvigson	Understanding Trend and Cycle in Asset Values: Reevaluating the Wealth Effect on Consumption
9747	Money Spent of Latest Drugs Is Worth Cost, Economist Says	Frank R. Lichtenberg	The impact of new drug launches on longevity: evidence from longitudinal disease-level data from 52 countries, 1982-2001
9247	Americans Are Getting Fatter, And Technology Is to Blame	Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, Henry Saffer	An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
5155	Scoring a Tax Cut	Martin Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg	The Taxation of Two Earner Families
5000	Scoring a Tax Cut	Martin Feldstein	Behavioral Responses to Tax Rates: Evidence from TRA86
8467	Behind Debate Over Tax Plan, Issues of Ethics and Economics	Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez	Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998

WashingtonPost.com

9319

Sugar Surge

David N. Figlio, Joshua Winicki

Food for Thought: The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition

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