Archive of NBER Digest -- 2003
The following summaries of NBER Working Papers have appeared in previous issues of the NBER Digest. |
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Mutual Fund Portfolio Contagion
New Drugs and Increased Longevity
Private Insurance Replaces Medicaid Cutbacks for Immigrants
Coordinated Currency Interventions Temporarily Move Exchange Rates
State Education Subsidies Shift Students to Public Universities
Is Manual Labor Bad for your Health?
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Religion and Economic Growth
Auto Insurance and Traffic Fatalities
What Works in Securities Laws?
Increased Life Expectancies Imply Reduced Inter-country Inequality
Advertising and Price Effects on Adolescent Drinking
Incentives and Invention in Universities
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Teacher Incentives
The Misallocation Of Credit In Japan
Do Tax Subsidies Increase Health Insurance among the Uninsured?
The Flattening of Corporate Management
Multinationals, Wages, and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime
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Employer Replies to Racial Names
Tax Credits Don't Spur College Attendance
What Happened to Wages in Mexico Since NAFTA?
How Deregulation Spurs Growth
Trade Links Move Stock Markets
Does Inflation Targeting Matter?
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Labor Dispute Caused Poor Quality Products
Student Aid Packages and College Choices
Big Firms Lose Value in Acquisitions
Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases
Capital Account Liberalization, The Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth
Teacher Certification Raises Salaries but not Quality
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Social Security Causes Earlier Retirement
Do Incentives Cause Teachers to Cheat?
Union Membership and Wage Variation
Rules Change Entrepreneurial Activity
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How School Administrators Cheat the Accountability Rules
The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety
Why Economic Downturns have Favorable Effects on Mortality
Wage Compression Limits Quality of Public Sector Workers
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Is Health Insurance Affordable to the Uninsured?
Does the World Trade Organization Actually Promote World Trade?
What Causes House Price Fluctuations?
Does Alcohol and Marijuana Use Alter Teen Sexual Behavior
Information Technology Spillovers
Effects of Multinational Company Investments
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Eating Your Way to Higher Test Scores
The Information in Equity Analyst Reports
Lower Social Security Benefits Reduced Mortality
The Internet Changes the Labor Market
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Does Grant Aid Attract More Students than Loans?
Transparency Encourages Foreign Investment
Abortion Legalization Reduces Adolescent Substance Abuse
What Drives Cross-Border Equity Flows?
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An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity
The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos
Multinationals' Sensitivity to Tax Rules
Why Companies Pay for College
Pollution Abatement in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Government Internet Subsidies and Student Achievement