NBER Reporter articles from May 2007

NBER Reporter archives from May 2007

Political economy.(Program Report)
May 1, 2007... The Political Economy Program is new at the NBER, and thus needs an introduction. What is political economics? And, why has the NBER chosen to have a program in it? The best way to answer is to set back the clock to the mid-1980s. This was...

The market for scientists and engineers.(Research Summaries)
May 1, 2007... The job market for scientists and engineers has moved to the forefront of national policy concerns for the first time since the launching of the Sputnik satellite in 1957. Diverse business, education, and science groups have issued...

The structure of Social Security and Medicare.
May 1, 2007... In the past three years, I have coauthored a series of papers on the structure of Social Security and Medicare with Sita Nataraj Slavov and Gopi Shah Goda. These studies were supported by the Social Security Administration in a series of grants...

NBER profile: Jean Paul Chavas.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jean Paul Chavas was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in September to represent the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied...

NBER profile: Richard B. Freeman.
May 1, 2007... Richard B. Freeman directs the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, serves as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the...

NBER profile: Mark Grinblatt.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mark Grinblatt was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors at its fall 2007 meeting. Grinblatt, who holds the J. Clayburn LaForce Endowed Chair in Management at UCLA, represents that university on the NBER'S Board....

NBER profile: John B. Shoven.
May 1, 2007... John B. Shoven is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Aging, Public Economics, and Economic Fluctuations and Growth. He is also the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Wallace R. Hawley Director of...

Conferences.
May 1, 2007... China's Growing Role in World Trade An NBER conference on "Chinas Growing Role in World Trade" took place in Chatham, MA on August 3 and 4. NBER Research Associates Robert C. Feenstra, who directs the Bureau's Program of Research on...

Twenty-eighth NBER Summer Institute held in 2007.(NBER News)(Conference news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... In the summer of 2007, the NBER held its twenty-eighth annual Summer Institute. More than 1600 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. The papers presented at dozens of different sessions during the...

Program and working group meetings.(Conference news)
May 1, 2007... The Economics of Crime The NBER's Working Group on the Economics of Crime held its fall workshop in Cambridge on September 14. The group's Directors, who also organized the meeting program, are: Philip J. Cook, Duke University; Jens...

Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia.(Bureau Books)
May 1, 2007... Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, is now available from the University of Chicago Press for $99.00. This is Volume 16 in the NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (EASE) series. Managing...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World.(Bureau Books)
May 1, 2007... Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform, edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $85.00. Social security systems, both in the United...