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NBER Digest OnLine

The following summaries of NBER Working Papers have appeared in the NBER Digest.

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May 2003 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• 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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April 2003 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• 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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March 2003 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• 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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February 2003 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• 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
  

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January 2003 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• The Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans
  
• What Reduced Crime in New York City
  
• Public Disability Insurance and Private Health Insurance
  
• Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Cases
  
• School Spending Raises Property Values
  
• Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?
  

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December 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Effects of the Tax Cut on Saving
  
• Impact of Devaluations on Commodity Firms
  
• Whose Employment is Affected by Unions?
  
• The G.I. Bill, World War II, and the Education of Black Americans
  
• Credit Access Cuts Child Labor in Developing Countries
  
• Social Insurance Programs Have Large Labor Supply Effects
  

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November 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Has Inequality Really Increased?
  
• Is Trade Good for the Enviroment?
  
• Generous Bankruptcy Rules Limit Small Firm Credit
  
• Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity
  
• Women and Post-WWII Wages
  
• Government Size and Taxpayer Cheating
  

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October 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Mandatory Medigap Standards Reduce Insurance Protection
  
• The Powerful Anti-takeover Force of Staggered Boards
  
• Newer Drugs Cut Health Care Costs
  
• The Higher Education Labor Market
  
• Economic Growth is Reducing Global Poverty
  
• Is Art a Good Investment?
  

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September 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Poverty and Low Education Don't Cause Terrorism
  
• The Small Cost of Accountability
  
• Does In-Service Teacher Training Raise Student Achievement?
  
• Drug Treatment is a Crime Fighting Tool
  

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August 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• School Choice Raises Student Achievement
  
• Global Links Raise Asian Countries' Productivity
  
• Alcohol and Drug Use Increases Suicidal Behaviors
  
• The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequity
  

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July 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Income Declines after Divorce
  
• Globalization Reduces Child Labor in Vietnam
  
• Looting Mexican Banks
  
• Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?
  

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June 2002 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

• Who Underreacts to Cash Flow News?
  
• Higher Alcohol Prices and Student Drinking
  
• A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950s
  
• The Retirement Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs
  

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