NBER Reporter articles from January 2007

NBER Reporter archives from January 2007

Labor economics redux.(Program Report)
January 1, 2007... Labor economics has increased the number of tools it uses to analyze people's behavior in market settings by augmenting econometrics and models of rational behavior with increased analyses of field or laboratory experiments. This widening, and...

The economics of student aid.(Research Summaries)
January 1, 2007... My research focuses on the incentives and distributional effects created by government policy toward education. In a series of papers, I have examined the various methods that governments use to subsidize post-secondary education and how the...

The market for private long-term care insurance.(Research Summaries)
January 1, 2007... Long-Term Care Risk Long-term care expenditures represent one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. Expenditures on long-term care, such as home health care and nursing homes, accounted for 8.5...

NBER profile: Susan M. Dynarski.
January 1, 2007... Susan M. Dynarski has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999. She is a member of the NBER's Programs of Research on Children, Education, and Public Economics. She is also an Associate Professor of...

NBER profile: Amy Finkelstein.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief biography)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Amy Finkelstein is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Public Economics, Health Care, and the Economics of Aging, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. She received her AB in government from Harvard...

Eighth annual conference in India.(Conferences)
January 1, 2007... On January 20-23, 2007 the NBER and India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) again brought together a group of NBER economists and about thirty economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government...

Twenty-second Annual Conference on Macroeconomics.(Conferences)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's twenty-second Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, organized by NBER Research Associates Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University, and Michael Woodford, Columbia University, took place in Cambridge on March 30 and 31....

Athey receives John Bates Clark Medal.(National Bureau of Economic Research, Susan Athey)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... NBER Research Associate Susan Athey, a professor of economics at Harvard University, received the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal for 2007. The award is given every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who has...

Industrial Organization.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... NBER's Program on Industrial Organization, directed by Nancy Rose of MIT, met on February 2 and 3 at the NBER's California office. Catherine Wolfram and Florian Zettelmeyer, both of the University of California, Berkeley and NBER, organized the...

Economic fluctuations and growth.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 9. NBER Research Associates Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert King, Boston University, organized...

Working Group on National Security.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Working Group on National Security, directed by NBER President Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on February 22. These papers were discussed: Benjamin F. Jones, Northwestern University and NBER, and...

Law and Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Law and Economics met in Cambridge on March 2. Program Director Christine M. Jolls of Yale Law School organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School and NBER, "Optimal Policy with...

Development of the American Economy.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy met in Cambridge on March 3. Program Director Claudia Goldin of Harvard University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Richard C. Sutch, University of California,...

Entrepreneurship.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER'S Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on March 9. The Group's Director Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Revisionist Views of the Technology Bubble ...

Productivity Program meeting.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Productivity Program met in Cambridge on March 9. Program Director Ernst R. Bern& of MIT organized the meeting. The program was: Sinan Aral, MIT; Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and NBER; and Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University,...

International Finance and Macroeconomics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on March 23. Menzie D. Chinn, NBER and University of Wisconsin, and Lars E.O. Svensson, NBER and Princeton University, organized this program: Luis Catao, IMF;...

Asset Pricing.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met at the University of Chicago on March 30. Program Director John H. Cochrane, NBER and University of Chicago, and Nicolae B. Garleanu, NBER and the Wharton School, organized this program: Ravi Bansal,...

Corporate Finance.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met at the University of Chicago on March 30. Program Director Raghuram G. Rajah, NBER and University of Chicago, organized the meeting and chose these papers for discussion: Morten Bennedsen,...

Behavioral Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Economics met at the University of Chicago on March 31. The group's directors, NBER Research Associates Robert Shiller of Yale University and Richard H. Thaler of the University of Chicago, organized this...

Public Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 5-6. NBER Faculty Research Fellows Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, and Amy Finkelstein, MIT, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Raj Chetty, University...

Environmental Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Working Group on Environmental Economics met in Cambridge on April 6 and 7. Working Group Director Don Fullerton of the University of Texas, Austin organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Michael Greenstone, MIT and...

Labor Studies.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
January 1, 2007... NBER's Labor Studies Program met in Cambridge on April 6. Program Director Richard B. Freeman and NBER Research Associate Lawrence F. Katz organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Alberto Abadie, Harvard University and NBER; and...

Health Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
January 1, 2007... The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on April 13. Program Director Michael Grossman organized the meeting. These papers were discussed Javier A. Birchenall, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rodrigo R. Soares,...

Monetary Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
January 1, 2007... NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on April 13. NBER researchers Marc P. Giannoni of Columbia Business School and Kenneth D. West of the University of Wisconsin organized this program: Anil K...

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005.(Bureau Books)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... This annual conference volume, which was edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Christopher A. Pissarides, is available from The MIT Press. The paperback price is $30.00; the price of the clothbound volume is $60.00. The NBER's International...

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2006.(Bureau Books)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2006--edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, and Michael Woodford--will be available from the MIT Press this spring. The paperback price is $35.00 and the clothbound price is $70.00. This 21st edition of the...

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 21, edited by James M. Poterba, will be available from the MIT Press this spring. The paperback price is $25.00; the clothbound price is $58.00. This NBER series presents current academic research findings...

Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches, edited by Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. This volume is number 67 in the series, NBER Studies in...

Mexican Immigration to the United States.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... Mexican Immigration to the United States, edited by George J. Borjas, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. This NBER Conference Report costs $60.00. From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican...

G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment, edited by Richard H. Clarida, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. The price of this NBER Conference Report is $99.00. The current account deficit of...

Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies: Policies, Practices, and Consequences, edited by Sebastian Edwards, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. The price of this NBER Conference Report is $99.00. ...

The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crises.(Bureau Books)
January 1, 2007... The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crises, edited by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel, and Graciela Marquez, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. This NBER Conference Report is priced...