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NBER Reporter OnLine Archive The following Research Summaries have appeared in previous issues of the NBER Reporter. NBER Program Reports are also available.

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2009 Number 2

• Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health
• The Supply Side of Housing Markets
• The Importance of Financial Literacy
• Taxes and Market Work: A Cross-Country Comparison

2009 Number 1

• Electricity Pricing that Reflects Its Real-Time Cost
• Re-evaluating Learning
• Teen and Non-Marital Childbearing
• Organizations in the Aggregate Economy

2008 Number 4

• Bossonomics? The Economics Of Management And Productivity
• Banking Crises
• Using Field Experiments in the Economics of Charity
• Prices, Productivity, and Innovation

2008 Number 3

• Who Pays for Obesity?
• Capital Flows, Taxation, and Institutional Variation
• Labor Markets and Business Cycles

2008 Number 2

• Happiness Economics
• Understanding Social Networks

2008 Number 1

• The Declining American High School Graduation Rate: Evidence, Sources, And Consequences

2007 Number 4

• Banks, Banking, and Crises

2007 Number 3

• The Market for Scientists and Engineers
• The Structure of Social Security and Medicare

2007 Number 2

• Households, Institutions, and Financial Markets

2007 Number 1

• The Economics of Student Aid
• The Market For Private Long-Term Care Insurance

Winter 2006/2007

• Exchange Rate Regimes, Globalization, Financial Crises, and Monetary Policy
• The Microeconomic Evidence on Contagion, Capital Controls, and Capital Flows
• Tax Policy Towards Energy and the Environment

Fall 2006

• Realized Return Volatility, Asset Pricing, and Risk Management
• Firms in International Trade
• Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Exchange-Rate Models

Summer 2006

• Europe
• Consumer Demand for Health Insurance
• International Organization of Production and Distribution
• Historical Aspects of U.S. Trade Policy

Spring 2006

• Consumption and Saving: Theory and Evidence
• Child Health and Human Capital
• Estate Taxation
• Rules for Monetary Policy

Winter 2005/2006

• The Contribution of Science and Technology to Production
• Foreign Direct Investment Behavior of Multinational Corporations
• Race and Twentieth-Century American Economic History
• Globalization and New Comparative Economic History

Fall 2005

• Impatience and Savings
• Bank Regulation and Supervision
• Corporate Governance and Financial Globalization

Summer 2005

• How Private Health Insurance Pools Risk
• Some Perspective on Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
• Prospects for Social Security Reform in the United States

Spring 2005

• Mental Health and Public Policy
• Social Returns to Human Capital
• Political and Economic Forces Sustaining Social Security
• Policy Evaluation in Macroeconomics

Winter 2004/2005

• Infant and Child Health
• Short Sale Constraints and Overpricing
• Historical Perspectives on Racial Economic Differences: A Summary of Recent Research
• Marijuana Use and Policy: What We Know and Have Yet To Learn

Fall 2004

• Labor Market Intermediation: What It Is, Why It Is Growing, and Where It Is Going
• New Perspectives on International Debt and Exchange Rates
• Macroeconomic Determinants of International Trade
• Capital Gains Taxes and Equity Prices

Summer 2004

• Explaining European Unemployment
• The Challenge of Turning Managers into Owners

Spring 2004

• Life Annuities and Uncertain Lifetimes
• Housing Supply
• Taxes, Competition, and the Information Economy
• Taxation and Household Portfolio Behavior

Winter 2003/2004

• Taxpayer Behavior and Government Policy
• Welfare Reform, Health Insurance and Health
• The Economics of Education
• The Effect of Advertising on Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption

Fall 2003

• Capital Account Opening, International Reserves, and Development: Evidence and Some Policy Controversies
• The Two Life Cycles of Human Creativity
• Capital Income Taxes

Summer 2003

• Randomized Trials and Quasi-Experiments in Education Research
• The New Economics of Smoking
• Inflation Dynamics: Combining Measurement with Theory
• Venture Capitalists As Economic Principals

Spring 2003

• Explaining Exchange Rate Behavior
• Health, Income, and Inequality
• Patents

Winter 2002/2003

• Technology and Inequality
• New Drugs: Health and Economic Impacts
• Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications
• Liquidity Traps, Policy Rules for Inflation Targeting, and Eurosystem Monetary-Policy Strategy

Fall 2002

• Raising Incomes by Mandating Higher Wages
  
• Monetary Policy
  
• The New Comparative Economics

Summer 2002

• Performance Evaluation in Financial Economics
• Tax Systems

Spring 2002

• Monetary Policy Analysis
  
• Saving and Spending Retirement Wealth
  
• The Market for Child Care
  
• FDI Flows: A Critical Look

Winter 2001/2002

• Integrating Multinational Firms into International Economics
  
• Monetary Policy
  
• Twin Crises

Fall 2001

• What Might School
  Accountability Do?
  
• Alcohol and Violence
  
• Taxes, Welfare, and Work by Single Mothers
  
• Medical Care and Economywide Price Indexes

Summer 2001

• The Gender Pay Gap
  
• Market-Based Environmental-Policy Instruments

Spring 2001

• Economic Growth and
  Financial Liberalization
  
• The Globalization of Production
  
• Efficiency and Equity
  in Education

Winter 2001

• Interpreting Changes in Mental Health Expenditures: Minding Our Ps and Qs
  
• International Trade and National Factor Markets
  
• Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Firms

Fall 2000

• Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
  
• Capital Flows and Crises in Emerging Markets
  
• Computers and the Internet
  
• Globalization and Macroeconomics

Summer 2000

• Stock Markets, Behavior, and the Limits of History
  
• Special Interest Groups and Economic Policy
  
• Research on Pensions and Social Security
  
• Technology and the Stock Market

Spring 2000

• Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
  
• International Taxation
  
• Local Corruption and the Global Economy

Winter 1999/2000

• Emerging Equity Markets and Market Integration, Geert Bekaert
  
• Forecasting and Empirical Methods in Finance and Macroeconomics, Francis X. Diebold
  
• The Effects of Liability Rules on Medical Practice, Daniel P. Kessler
  
• International Economic Organizations, Developing Country Reforms, and Trade, Anne O. Krueger
  

Fall 1999

• Monetary Policy Regimes, the Gold Standard, and the Great Depression, Michael D. Bordo
  
• Immigration, George J. Borjas
  
• Financial Crises in Emerging Markets, Andrés Velasco
  

Summer 1999

• Technological Change and the Labor Market, Ann P. Bartel and Nachum Sicherman
  
• Technology and the Global Economy, Jonathan Eaton
  
• Risk Management and Insurance, Kenneth A. Froot
  

Spring 1999

• Understanding Aggregate Fluctuations: The Importance of Building from Microeconomic Evidence, John C. Haltiwanger
  
• East Asian Mysteries: Past and Present, Dani Rodrik
  
• Economic Analysis of Law, Steven Shavell
  
• The Economics of GATT, Robert W. Staiger
  

Winter 1998/9

• Inflation Targeting, Ben S. Bernanke
  
• The Empirics of Currency and Banking Crises, Barry Eichengreen and Andrew K. Rose
  
• Exchange Rates and Prices, Charles M. Engel
  
• Historical Perspectives on U.S. Trade Policy, Douglas A. Irwin
  
• Equity Flows, Banks, and Asia, Rene M. Stulz
  

Fall 1998

• Entrepreneurs, Star Scientists, and Biotechnology, Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby
  
• New Products and Price Indexes, Jerry A. Hausman
  
• Do We Still Need Commercial Banks?, Raghuram G. Rajan
  
• The Economics of Crime and the Criminal Justice System, Steven D. Levitt
  

Summer 1998

• The Future of Investment in Emerging Markets, Campbell R. Harvey
  
• Patents, Patent Citations, and the Dynamics of Technological Change, Adam B. Jaffe
  
• The Economics of Mass Migrations, Jeffrey G. Williamson
  

Spring 1998

• The Economics of School Reform, Caroline M. Hoxby
  
• Developments in Pensions, Olivia S. Mitchell
  
• International Capital Flows: Sustainability, Sudden Reversals, and Market Failures, Assaf Razin
  
• Institutions for Managing Risks to Living Standards, Robert J. Shiller
  

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