NBER Reporter articles from March 22 2009

NBER Reporter archives from March 22 2009

Financial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim.(Bureau Books)
March 22, 2009... Financial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim, Volume 18 in the NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (EASE) series, will be available this April from the University of Chicago Press. The editors, who serve as organizers of the EASE...

Developments in the Economics of Aging.(Bureau Books)
March 22, 2009... Developments in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this spring for $99.00. The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from 45...

International Trade and Investment.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
March 22, 2009... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at the University of California, San Diego on December 5 and 6. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of the University of California, Davis chose these papers to discuss: * Costas...

2008-9 awards and honors.(NBER News)
March 22, 2009... A number of NBER researchers received honors, awards, and other forms of professional recognition during 2008 and early 2009. A list of these honors, excluding those that were bestowed by the researcher's home university and listing researchers...

NBER researchers in public service.(NBER News)
March 22, 2009... Research Associate Christina D. Romer, the former co-director of NBER'S Program on Monetary Economics, a former member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, has been confirmed as...

Sticky prices and inflation dynamics.(Conferences)
March 22, 2009... The 22nd Annual NBER-TCER-CEPR Confercnce on "Sticky Prices and Inflation Dynamics" took place in Tokyo, Japan on December 17-18, 2008. The conference organizers were: Jordi Gall, the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and NBER; Takeo...

Micro and macroeconomic effects of financial globalization.(Conferences)
March 22, 2009... An NBER/Universities Research Conference on "Micro and Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Globalization" took place in Cambridge on December 5 and 6. The organizers were Ross Levine, NBER and Brown University, and Carlos Vegh, NBER and...

NBER profile: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg.
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and International Trade and Investment and a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton...

NBER profile: Esther Duflo.
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Esther Duflo is a Research Associate in the NBER'S Programs on Children, Education, and Aging and is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in MIT's Economics Department....

Teen and non-marital childbearing.(Research Summaries)
March 22, 2009... There is a widespread consensus among the American public that rates of teen pregnancy and unintended pregnancies to young, unmarried women are too high. Approximately 30 percent of teenage girls in the United States become pregnant, and 20...

Re-evaluating learning.(Research Summaries)
March 22, 2009... Developing countries have rapidly increased access to primary school, but the quality of education has remained low. Many children are now in school, but they are hardly learning. In India, for example, a 2007 nationwide survey by Pratham (1),...

Health economics.(Program Report)
March 22, 2009... The NBER's Program in Health Economics focuses on the determinants of health. Two areas of particular interest are the economics of obesity and the economics of substance use. The program members' research has been widely supported by federal...