NBER Working Papers Cited in the Press
This is a partial list of NBER Working Papers cited in the press within the last year.
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ABC News
| July 8, 2011 |
Medicaid Makes Poor Healthier and States Poorer |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
ajc.com
| September 7, 2010 |
Economic recovery and the myth of small business |
16300
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John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda |
Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young |
Associated Press
| October 01, 2011 |
Patient death puts spotlight on replacement nurses |
15855 |
Jonathan Gruber, Samuel A. Kleiner |
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State |
The Atlantic
| December 23, 2011 |
The HIV Discovery of the Year; Women Aren't Better Politicians |
17671 |
Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko |
Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors |
| September 19, 2011 |
The No. 1 Reason Americans Are Getting Fatter: We're Not Smoking |
17423 |
Charles L. Baum, Shin-Yi Chou |
The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity |
| June 20, 2011 |
Corporations Say Special Tax Holiday Will Create Jobs. Don't Believe Them |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
| May 3, 2011 |
Was 9/11 the Most Expensive Act in History? |
10580 |
Hugh Rockoff |
Until it's Over, Over There: The U.S. Economy in World War I |
The Baltimore Sun
| January 8, 2012 |
Higher taxes save lives (sometimes) |
17709 |
Philip J. Cook, Christine Piette Durrance |
The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase |
BBC News
| July 24, 2010 |
US military curbs 'reduce' Afghan attacks in some areas |
16152 |
Luke N. Condra, Joseph H. Felter, Radha K. Iyengar, Jacob N. Shapiro |
The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq |
Bloomberg Business Week
| December 30, 2011 |
California Nurses Say Strike Champions Patients Over Profits |
15855 |
Jonathan Gruber, Samuel A. Kleiner |
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State |
| November 22, 2011 |
Births at 11-Year Low May Prolong Five-Year Housing Slump |
174852 |
Lisa J. Dettling, Melissa Schettini Kearney |
House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby |
Bloomberg.com
| February 2, 2012 |
You Can Cut Spending and Still Get Re-elected: Stephen L. Carter |
17655 |
Alberto F. Alesina, Dorian Carloni, Giampaolo Lecce |
The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments |
| August 4, 2011 |
Decade of Fiscal Stimulus Yields Nothing but Debt: Caroline Baum |
17239 |
Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications |
| July 27, 2011 |
Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think |
12344 |
Jerry Green, Laurence J. Kotlikoff |
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language |
| July 7, 2011 |
How to Be a Patriot: Hire an Illegal Immigrant |
15507 |
Giovanni Peri |
The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States |
| July 7, 2011 |
How to Be a Patriot: Hire an Illegal Immigrant |
16439 |
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, Greg C. Wright |
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs |
| July 7, 2011 |
How to Be a Patriot: Hire an Illegal Immigrant |
12497 |
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri |
Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages |
| July 7, 2011 |
How to Be a Patriot: Hire an Illegal Immigrant |
14490 |
Gordon H. Hanson |
The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor |
| March 21, 2011 |
Harvard Isn't Worth It Beyond Mom's Party Chatter: Amity Shlaes |
16869
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Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner |
Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major |
| March 21, 2011 |
Harvard Isn't Worth It Beyond Mom's Party Chatter: Amity Shlaes |
16730
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Kevin Lang, Erez Siniver |
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel |
| March 21, 2011 |
Harvard Isn't Worth It Beyond Mom's Party Chatter: Amity Shlaes |
12245
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E. Han Kim, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales |
Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge? |
bnet.com
| August 5, 2011 |
Anyone Can Get Uncle Sam's Small Business Advice. Maybe That's Not a Good Thing |
16521 |
James A. Brander, Qianqian Du, Thomas F. Hellmann |
The Effects of Government-Sponsored Venture Capital: International Evidence |
Bond Buyer
| September 1, 2010 |
Tax-Exempts Beat BABs In After-Tax Yields: Study |
16008 |
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali, Yuhang Xing |
Build America Bonds |
Boston Globe
| August 7, 2011 |
Do exam schools add value? |
17264 |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak |
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools |
| June 25, 2011 |
Honor can kill you |
17113 |
Nico Voigtlaender, Hans-Joachim Voth |
Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany |
| June 25, 2011 |
Let's not open the door to corporate tax-dodging |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
| June 12, 2011 |
Gifted programs may not help |
17089 |
Sa A. Bui, Steven G. Craig, Scott A. Imberman |
Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement |
| May 22, 2011 |
The couple that votes together |
17023 |
Steven D. Levitt, Thomas J. Miles |
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker |
| April 3, 2011 |
The breast-feeding penalty |
16882 |
Joel Waldfogel |
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster |
| March 20, 2011 |
Social engineering fail |
16865 |
Scott E. Carrell, Bruce I. Sacerdote, James E. West |
From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects |
CBS Money Watch
| June 13, 2011 |
Mid-Year Money Check-Up |
17103 |
Annamaria Lusardi |
Americans' Financial Capability |
CBS News
| September 4, 2011 |
Bachmann "open" to eliminating corporate taxes |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
| July 22, 2011 |
Do working moms put their kids at risk? What new study says |
17212 |
Pinka Chatterji, Sara Markowitz, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn |
Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing |
| July 11, 2011 |
Proposed health cuts may limit access further |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
CFO
| July 21, 2010 |
"Intoxicated Investors" Slammed Corporate Bonds |
16191 |
Alberto Manconi, Massimo Massa, Ayako Yasuda |
The Behavior of Intoxicated Investors: The role of institutional investors in propagating the crisis of 2007-2008 |
Chicago Tribune
| January 13, 2012 |
Banks start playing games with your money |
16433 |
Melissa Schettini Kearney, Peter Tufano, Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst |
Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Savings Products |
| June 15, 2011 |
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' wedding registry: More money, fewer problems? |
15161 |
Kasey S. Buckles, Melanie E. Guldi, Joseph Price |
Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements |
Christian Science Monitor
| October 15, 2010 |
Report calls obesity a threat to US national security
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15784 |
John Cawley, Johanna Catherine Maclean |
Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment |
Chron.com
| October, 2011 |
HISD reforms boosted math scores, reading stagnant |
17494 |
Roland G. Fryer, Jr |
Creating "No Excuses" (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston |
The Chronicle of Higher Education
| January 16, 2012 |
How the Recession Has Hit College Students Seeking Jobs on the Side |
17744 |
Judith Scott-Clayton |
What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009? |
| December 5, 2011 |
Inequality in Educational Attainment Has Grown, Especially Among Women, Report Says |
17633 |
Martha J. Bailey, Susan M. Dynarski |
Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion |
| October 31, 2011 |
School Suspensions Among Boys May Be Linked to Lower College Attendance |
17541 |
Marianne Bertrand, Jessica Pan |
The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior |
| January 14, 2011 |
Gaming the Admissions System - With Social Benefits |
16663 |
Julie Berry Cullen, Mark C. Long, Randall Reback |
Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan |
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
| November 17, 2011 |
Charitable Deduction Faces a Fresh Challenge as Lawmakers Attempt to Close Deficit |
16921 |
Martin Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg, Maya MacGuineas |
Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits |
cnet News
| August 5, 2011 |
Econ 101: Solar panels increase home values |
17200 |
Samuel Dastrup, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn |
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status |
CNN Money
| May 24, 2011 |
Many don't have $2,000 for a rainy day |
17072 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, Peter Tufano |
Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications |
The Economist
| August 16, 2011 |
Two eagles, one crooked arrow |
16948 |
Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique G. Mendoza, Carlos A. Vegh |
Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China |
| August 2, 2011 |
Tuesday morning quarterbacking |
16479 |
Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique G. Mendoza, Carlos A. Vegh |
How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers? |
| June 8, 2011 |
Business-school research: Where to go for an IPO |
16916 |
Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, Rene M. Stulz |
The U.S. Left Behind: The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World |
| April 7, 2011 |
Over to you |
12834 |
James Poterba, Steven Venti, David A. Wise |
The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows |
The Fiscal Times
| December 19, 2011 |
Why America's College Students Don't Graduate |
15892 |
John Bound, Michael F. Lovenheim, Sarah Turner |
Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States |
Financial Times
| December 28, 2011 |
What has the ECB done in the crisis? The role of TARGET balances/td>
| 17626 |
Hans-Werner Sinn, Timo Wollmershaeuser |
Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows: The ECB's Rescue Facilityh |
| April 18, 2011 |
IMF is turning from ideology to evidence |
16805 |
Nicolas E. Magud, Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Capital Controls: Myth and Reality - A Portfolio Balance Approach |
| February 4, 2011 |
Something for the weekend |
16328 |
Ron Kaniel, Cade Massey, David T. Robinson |
The Importance of Being an Optimist: Evidence from Labor Markets |
Forbes
| June 11, 2011 |
Three Simple Questions Reveal Your Retirement Wellbeing |
17078 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell |
Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing |
| February 18, 2011 |
Why It Pays To Be An Optimist |
16238 |
James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, Adam Yavitz |
Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
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| February 3, 2011 |
Growth - Dealing with Market Shifts |
16300
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John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda |
Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
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Foreign Policy
| March/April 2001 |
The Lesser Evil? |
16542 |
C. Simon Fan, Chen Lin, Daniel Treisman |
Embezzlement Versus Bribery |
Foxbusiness
| June 28, 2010 |
Stock Prices and Uncertainty Go Hand in Hand
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16128 |
Lubos Pastor, Pietro Veronesi |
Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices |
FoxNews.com
| April 27, 2011 |
'Peter' and 'Deborah' Are Top CEO Names |
9873 |
Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan |
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination |
globalpost.com
| December 15, 2011 |
6,000 New York nurses threaten to protest |
15855 |
Jonathan Gruber, Samuel A. Kleiner |
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State |
The Globe and Mail
| December 21, 2011 |
Its the shortest day of the year. Time to celebrate |
17677 |
Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, Glen R. Waddell |
Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement? |
| November 17, 2011 |
New U.S. retirees avoided big hit from recession |
17547 |
Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, Nahid Tabatabai |
How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study? |
| October 31, 2011 |
Want a better democracy? Build better primary schools |
16832 |
Jess Benhabib, Alejandro Corvalan, Mark M. Spiegel |
Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus |
| October 31, 2011 |
Want a better democracy? Build better primary schools |
17432 |
Fabrice Murtin, Romain Wacziarg |
The Democratic Transition |
| June 10, 2011 |
Men: money smart, or just more confident? |
17078 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell |
Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing |
| June 1, 2011 |
Why environmental red tape may be good for business |
17004 |
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Matthew J. Neidell |
The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity |
| January 26, 2011 |
Turning savers into buyers still a big challenge in China |
15093 |
Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang |
The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China |
Google
| August 3, 2010 |
Study ties civilian deaths to attacks on US forces
|
16152
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Luke N. Condra, Joseph H. Felter, Radha K. Iyengar, Jacob N. Shapiro |
The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq |
The Huffington Post
| October 24, 2011 |
Divorce Rates Of 1960s And 1970s Responsible For Rise In Educated, Working Women, Study Shows |
17508 |
Raquel Fernandez, Joyce Cheng Wong |
The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work |
| June 9, 2011 |
Americans Struggle With Financial Problems They Don't Understand: Study |
17103 |
Annamaria Lusardi |
Americans' Financial Capability |
The Hill
| October 24, 2011 |
EPA's proposed power-sector air rules will weaken American manufacturing |
8484 |
Michael Greenstone |
The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 & 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures |
Investors.com
| April 4, 2011 |
Austerity Helps Economic Recovery, Recent Data Show |
15438 |
Alberto F. Alesina, Silvia Ardagna |
Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending |
International Business Times
| July 7, 2011 |
Study: Medicaid Coverage Has Major Positives |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
Los Angeles Times
| October 19, 2010 |
A suggestion to the military to slim down its potential ranks: go vegetarian |
16408
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John Cawley, Johanna Catherine Maclean |
Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment |
Mail Online (Daily Mail)
| June 22, 2010 |
Why giving your child a computer can make their reading and maths skills WORSE
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16078
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Jacob L. Vigdor, Helen F. Ladd |
Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement |
Money.usnews.com
| September 15, 2011 |
There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Investing |
17345 |
John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Katherine L. Milkman |
The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions |
MSNBC
| May 24, 2011 |
Small rainy-day funds mean many could get drenched |
17072 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, Peter Tufano |
Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications |
myfoxny.com
| August 2, 2011 |
Report: Elite High Schools Not Better For Standardized Testing |
17264 |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak |
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools |
National Geographic
| March 10, 2011 |
Daylight Saving Time 2011: Why and When Does It Begin? |
14429 |
Matthew J. Kotchen, Laura E. Grant |
Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana |
National Review Online
| August 30, 2011 |
Krueger's Faulty Minimum-Wage Study |
4509 |
David Card, Alan B. Krueger |
Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania |
NYDailyNews.com
| January 8, 2012 |
A good teacher's lessons last a lifetime |
17699 |
Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff |
The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood |
| August 17, 2011 |
Women face difficulties staying, moving up in the workforce due to work-life balance and kids |
16582 |
Elizabeth Ty Wilde, Lily Batchelder, David T. Ellwood |
The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels |
New York nymag.com
| August 1, 2011 |
Study That Suggests Competition for Spots in Elite Public Schools Is Overblown Is Unlikely to Deter Anyone From Said Competition |
17264 |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak |
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools |
New York Post
| May 23, 2011 |
How high school fosters suicide |
9653 |
Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren |
Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime |
The New York Times
| December 21, 2011 |
Study Links Winning Football and Declining Grades |
17677 |
Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, Glen R. Waddell |
Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement? |
| December 15, 2011 |
Nurses Threaten Strike at 3 New York Hospitals |
15855 |
Jonathan Gruber, Samuel A. Kleiner |
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State |
| November 9, 2011 |
When Ozone Drops, Farm Workers Step Up the Pace |
17004 |
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Matthew J. Neidell |
The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity |
| November 6, 2011 |
The Next Fight Over Jobs |
17534 |
Jesse Rothstein |
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession |
| October 23, 2011 |
No Holiday |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
| October 9, 2011 |
Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling |
17040 |
Henry S. Farber |
Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010 |
| October 2, 2011 |
Foreclosures Are Killing Us |
17310 |
Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin |
Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? |
| September 28, 2011 |
The Toll of Politics on Well-Being |
17128 |
Angus S. Deaton |
The Financial Crisis and the Well-Being of Americans |
| July 7, 2011 |
First Study of Its Kind Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
| May 9, 2011 |
Poker as a Game of Skill |
17023 |
Steven D. Levitt, Thomas J. Miles |
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker |
| April 27, 2011 |
When Bigger Bodies Mean Progress |
16938 |
Robert W. Fogel, Nathaniel Grotte |
An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 |
| March 17, 2011 |
Social Science Palooza II |
16540 |
Susan Helper, Morris M. Kleiner, Yingchun Wang |
Analyzing Compensation Methods in Manufacturing: Piece Rates, Time Rates, or Gain-Sharing? |
| March 13, 2011 |
Radiation and Pregnancy |
13347 |
Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Marten Palme |
Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden |
| March 10, 2011 |
Danger at the Factory |
16803 |
Inas Rashad Kelly, Dhaval M. Dave, Jody L. Sindelar, William T. Gallo |
The Impact of Early Occupational Choice On Health Behaviors |
| February 14, 2011 |
The Plight of Generation Un
|
16659 |
Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Dhiman Das |
Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training |
Newsweek
| December 5, 2010 |
The Capital Reworks Its Jobs Data
|
16536 |
Greg Kaplan, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl |
Interstate Migration Has Fallen Less Than You Think: Consequences of Hot Deck Imputation in the Current Population Survey
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npr.org
| October 19, 2011 |
To Curb Abortions, Opponents Focus On The 'Supply-Side' |
15825 |
Silvie Colman, Theodore J. Joyce |
Regulating Abortion: Impact on Patients and Providers in Texas |
| September 4, 2011 |
Avoiding Last Place: Some Things We Don't Outgrow |
17234 |
Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich, Michael I. Norton |
"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications |
| July 7, 2011 |
Medicaid Makes 'Big Difference' In Lives, Study Finds |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
pbs.org
| July 8, 2011 |
As Cuts Loom, Study Finds Medicaid Works |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
reason.com
| January 13, 2012 |
The Pain of Bain Falls Mainly on Romneys Campaign? Not Quite |
14207 |
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Stromberg |
Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity |
Reuters.com
| September 6, 2011 |
History points to fiscal solution to euro crisis |
17380 |
Michael D. Bordo, Agnieszka Markiewicz, Lars Jonung |
A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History |
| July 15, 2011 |
Medicare Part D sees falling drug costs: study |
16431 |
Ernst R. Berndt, Murray L. Aitken |
Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century After the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation |
| May 26, 2011 |
Top lobbying banks got biggest bailouts: study |
17076 |
Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel |
A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis |
SFGate
the San Francisco Chronicle
| December 26, 2011 |
CanadaDrugs.com is an Affordable Prescription Drug Alternative to the Over 9 Million US Adults Who Lost Health Coverage During the Recession |
17600 |
John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya, Kosali I. Simon |
The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession |
| November 17, 2011 |
A GOP debt plan would hit some popular tax breaks |
16921 |
Martin Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg, Maya MacGuineas |
Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits |
| November 4, 2011 |
Dividend Swaps Signal No Slowdown as European Crisis Boils |
17416 |
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Wouter Hueskes, Ralph Koijen, Evert B. Vrugt |
Equity Yields |
| September 26, 2011 |
Patient's death heightens tensions after strike |
15855 |
Jonathan Gruber, Samuel A. Kleiner |
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State |
Slate
| February 1, 2012 |
Food for Naught |
17794 |
Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian |
Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War |
| October 10, 2010 |
Inside Job
A new study pinpoints just how valuable inside information is to traders. Could you mimic their trades and reap the same rewards? |
16454 |
Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, Lukasz Pomorski |
Decoding Inside Information |
smartmoney.com
| October 17, 2011 |
Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Care |
17451 |
Jeffrey Brown, Amy Finkelstein |
Insuring Long Term Care In the US |
TheStar.com
| June 10, 2010 |
Daw: MP aims to rally support for a zero inflation target |
16054 |
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Martin Uribe |
The Optimal Rate of Inflation |
stltoday.com
| August 30, 2010 |
U.S. health care: Most expensive, least frequent |
15843 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, Peter Tufano |
The economic crisis and medical care usage |
TheStreet.com
| April 18, 2011 |
Government Keeps Losing With TIPS |
16358 |
Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. Longstaff, Hanno Lustig |
Why Does the Treasury Issue Tips? The Tips-Treasury Bond Puzzle |
Time
| January 9, 2012 |
For-Profit Schools: "Agile Predators" or Just Business Savvy? |
17710 |
David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz |
The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators? |
| October 27, 2011 |
Get Schooled: Class Size, College Tuition and More Education News |
17533 |
Susan Dynarski, Joshua M. Hyman, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion |
| October 11, 2011 |
Latest Housing Bust Casualty: Babies |
17485 |
Lisa J. Dettling, Melissa Schettini Kearney |
House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby |
| September 5, 2011 |
Are Foreclosures Making Us Sick? |
17310 |
Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin |
Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? |
| July 27, 2011 |
Does the Debt Ceiling Make Deficits Worse? |
17239 |
Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications |
| July 21, 2011 |
Does Costco Cause Inflation? |
17220 |
Charles J. Courtemanche, Art Carden |
Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices |
| June 22, 2011 |
Study: ACT Test May Not Accurately Predict College Success |
17119 |
Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans, Devin G. Pope |
Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam |
| June 6, 2011 |
Is the Economy Hurting Your Kid's Report Card? |
17104 |
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania V. Francis, Christina M. Gibson-Davis |
Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement |
| June 1, 2011 |
Half of Americans Can't Raise $2K in 30 Days |
17072 |
Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, Peter Tufano |
Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications |
| May 26, 2011 |
id Lobbying Cause the Financial Crisis? |
17076 |
Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel |
A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis |
| February 1, 2011 |
59 Billion Reasons Not to Invest in the Airline Industry |
16744 |
Severin Borenstein |
On the Persistent Financial Losses of U.S. Airlines: A Preliminary Exploration |
| January 20, 2011 |
Will Rising Food Prices Kill the Recovery? |
16563
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Luis Catao, Roberto Chang |
World Food Prices and Monetary Policy |
| January 3, 2011 |
Wall Street Journal vs. Sarah Palin |
16467 |
John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer |
The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach |
UPI.com
| June 3, 2011 |
Lobbying spurred risk before credit crash, study says |
17076 |
Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel |
A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
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| April 6, 2011 |
Economist faults tying merit pay to tests |
16710 |
Derek Neal |
The Design of Performance Pay in Education
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USA Today
| April 2011 |
Larger debt debate looms on the Hill |
16827 |
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff |
A Decade of Debt
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U.S. News & World Report
| December 13, 2011 |
Loss of Health Insurance Much Likelier for Adults This Recession |
17600 |
John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya, Kosali I. Simon |
The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
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| February 2, 2011 |
Why We're Not Wired for Successful Retirements |
16740 |
Justine S. Hastings, Olivia S. Mitchell |
How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors
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| January 19, 2011 |
5 Ways to Make Your 401(k) Balance Last Longer |
16675 |
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise |
The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets
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The Wall Street Journal
| January 23, 2012 |
State Bank Regulators More Lenient Than Federal Counterparts |
17736 |
Sumit Agarwal, David Lucca, Amit Seru, Francesco Trebbi |
Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking |
| January 21, 2012 |
New Study Tallies Private Equity's Jobs Role |
17399 |
Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner, Javier Miranda |
Private Equity and Employment |
| December 19, 2011 |
Not So Golden Oldies |
17663 |
Dirk Jenter, Katharina Lewellen |
CEO Preferences and Acquisitions |
| November 7, 2011 |
How much must you save for a "secure" retirement? |
17536 |
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise |
The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement |
| October 24, 2011 |
The Tax Reform Evidence From 1986 |
17531 |
Martin S. Feldstein |
The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Comment on the 25th Anniversary |
| October 3, 2011 |
Heritage: Repatriation Tax Holiday Wouldn't Create Jobs |
15248 |
Michael Faulkender, Mitchell Petersen |
Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act |
| September 6, 2011 |
On jobs, better late than never |
16246 |
Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel Slemrod |
Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? |
| August 31, 2011 |
Tying Health Problems to Rise in Home Foreclosures |
17310 |
Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin |
Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? |
| August 3, 2011 |
Five investments for a falling dollar |
17260 |
Martin S. Feldstein |
What's Next for the Dollar? |
| July 28, 2011 |
The retirement-savings crisis is overblown |
17203 |
Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder |
Economic Preparation for Retirement |
| June 23, 2011 |
Tax-Repatriation Holiday Gathers Some Steam |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
| June 6, 2011 |
Most Americans Haven't Planned for Retirement and Other Areas of Concern |
17103 |
Annamaria Lusardi |
Americans' Financial Capability |
| May 26, 2011 |
Lobbying by Banks Before Financial Crisis Paid Off Big, Study Says |
17076 |
Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel |
A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis |
| April 27, 2011 |
Medicare As We've Known It Isn't an Option |
14296 |
Claudio Lucarelli, Jeffrey Prince, Kosali Simon |
Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans
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| April 25, 2011 |
10 Things Your Coworkers Won't Say |
16396 |
David Card, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, Emmanuel Saez |
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
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| April 25, 2011 |
How Health Reform Punishes Work |
16729 |
Raj Chetty, Adam Guren, Dayanand S. Manoli, Andrea Weber |
Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference Between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities
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| April 16, 2011 |
Corporate Tax Hurdles: A World of Difference |
16839 |
Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin, Naresh Kumar, Guang Shi |
The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
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| March 29, 2011 |
Most of Beijing's Olympic Pollution Cleanup Evaporated a Year Later |
16907 |
Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin, Naresh Kumar, Guang Shi |
The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
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| March 14, 2011 |
Saving Daylight, Wasting Electricity |
14429 |
Matthew J. Kotchen, Laura E. Grant |
Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana?
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| February 15, 2011 |
Chinese Savings Binge to End? |
16771 |
Dennis Tao Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou |
Why Are Saving Rates so High in China?
|
| February 7, 2011 |
Which Parts of Stimulus Worked Best? |
16759 |
James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote |
Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Real Time Estimates of the Effects of the American Readjustment and Recovery Act
|
| February 7, 2011 |
Savers' impatience hinders retirement goals |
16740 |
Justine S. Hastings, Olivia S. Mitchell |
How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors
|
| February 7, 2011 |
A License to Shampoo: Jobs Needing State Approval Rise |
14979 |
Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger |
Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
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| January 19, 2011 |
Revisiting Bush 2008 Stimulus: Maybe It Did Spur Spending After All |
16684 |
Jonathan A. Parker, Nicholas S. Souleles, David S. Johnson, Robert McClelland |
Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
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| January 19, 2011 |
Revisiting Bush 2008 Stimulus: Maybe It Did Spur Spending After All |
15421 |
Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel B. Slemrod |
Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
|
| January 8, 2011 |
Week in Ideas |
16606 |
Eric A. Hanushek |
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
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The Washington Post
| February 11, 2012 |
Study: Female mayors don't govern differently, but they're better at being reelected |
17671 |
Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko |
Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors |
| January 24, 2012 |
On banks, state regulators are more lax than federal ones |
17736 |
Sumit Agarwal, David Lucca, Amit Seru, Francesco Trebbi |
Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking |
| January 10, 2012 |
Bigger credit booms = bigger busts? |
17621 |
Oscar Jorda, Moritz HP. Schularick, Alan M. Taylor |
When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises |
| December 30, 2011 |
Presenting the first-annual Wonky awards |
17312 |
Michael D. Bordo, Angela Redish, Hugh Rockoff |
Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)? |
| December 17, 2011 |
The downside of unemployment benefits |
17570 |
Jesse Rothstein |
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession |
| December 14, 2011 |
Study: High-skilled immigrants decrease poverty |
17570 |
Giovanni Peri |
The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition |
| December 5, 2011 |
Are vocational degrees a better path to employment? In the short run |
17504 |
Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann, Lei Zhang |
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle |
| November 16, 2011 |
Housing boom = baby boom |
17485 |
Lisa J. Dettling, Melissa Schettini Kearney |
House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby |
| November 11, 2011 |
Corporate lobbying is a very exclusive club |
17577 |
William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln, Prachi Mishra |
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying |
| October 30, 2011 |
How Social Security redistributes money from men to women |
17439 |
Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, Nahid Tabatabai |
The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula |
| October 10, 2011 |
Minority students do better under minority teachers |
17381 |
Robert Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann, Philip Oreopoulos |
A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom |
| September 29, 2011 |
Highly-skilled immigrants drive U.S. business growth overseas |
17363 |
C. Fritz Foley, William R. Kerr |
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity |
| September 16, 2011 |
Why Americans stopped relocating, in one graph |
17307 |
Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail K. Wozniak |
Internal Migration in the United States |
| September 9, 2011 |
Has executive pay ever gone down? Yes - in the 1940s |
17303 |
Carola Frydman, Raven Molloy |
Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s |
| September 2, 2011 |
How we spend our time differently in a recession |
17270 |
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr. |
Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout |
| September 2, 2011 |
How we spend our time differently in a recession |
17259 |
Mark A. Aguiar, Erik Hurst, Loukas Karabarbounis |
Time Use During Recessions |
| August 28, 2011 |
Medicaid's cost conundrum |
17236 |
Mark Duggan, Tamara Hayford |
Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates |
| August 16, 2011 |
Health reform's $50 billion question: What's "affordable"? |
17279 |
Richard V. Burkhauser, Sean Lyons, Kosali I. Simon |
The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act |
| August 14, 2011 |
Exam schools: Who needs them? |
17264 |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak |
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools |
| July 19, 2011 |
Report finds 2 of 4 tests in ACT poor predictors of college success |
17119 |
Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans, Devin G. Pope |
Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam |
| July 7, 2011 |
Study: Medicaid coverage improves personal health and financial security for the uninsured |
17190 |
Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, The Oregon Health Study Group |
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year |
| June 20, 2011 |
Wonkbook: Is Obama secretly the greatest Republican ever? |
15023 |
Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, Kristin J. Forbes |
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act |
The Washington Times
| November 18, 2011 |
BACON: Link between poverty and obesity |
17483 |
Charles J. Courtemanche, Garth Heutel, Patrick McAlvanah |
Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity
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