Archive of NBER Digest -- 2004
| The following summaries of NBER Working Papers have appeared in previous issues of the NBER Digest. |
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Is the Current Account Deficit Sustainable?
Affirmative Action and Highly Qualified Minority Students
Effects of Taxes on Labor Income
Pension Assumptions and Earnings Manipulation
The Effect of Opening Equity Markets on Economic Volatility
Democracy, Dictators, and Growth
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Are Perks Really Managerial Excess?
The Changing Path to Corporate Leadership
Can Markets Predict the Future?
Do Hospital Report Cards Matter?
Did the ADA Reduce Employment of the Disabled?
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Increasing Retirement Account Participation
Who Gains from Innovation?
Do Fathers Prefer Sons?
Capital Taxes are Passed on to Workers and Consumers
Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets
Are Equity Investors Fooled by Inflation?
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The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Work
Mexico's Problems: Don't Blame NAFTA
How the 1960s' Riots Hurt African-Americans
Self-Employment: More May Not Be Better
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Lower Tax Rates Spurred Dividend Growth
Are Political Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices?
Work and Family Rise Among College Graduate Women
Serial Default and Capital Flows
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Asbestos and the Future of Mass Litigation
The Effect of Gasoline Taxes on Work Effort
The Net Benefit of Debt Relief
Dual-Class Companies
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Education Level Drives City Growth
Illiquidity Raises Investment Risk
Financial Reform Changed Stock Markets in Latin America
Taxation and Corporate Payout Policy
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Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure
The Economic Efficiency of Cancer Drugs
Motivating Employees with Stock and Involvement
The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews
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The Alternative Minimum Tax and Effective Marginal Tax Rates
Taxing Corporate Capital Gains
Good Versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era
How College Savings Can Reduce Wealth
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Why is Manhattan Housing So Expensive?
The Trouble with Stock Options
Long-Term Care Insurance and Nursing Home Use
Divorce Laws and Family Violence
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Local Revenue Hills: Evidence From Four U.S. Cities
Bank Concentration and Crises
The Regulation of Labor
Business Cycles No Longer Linked