NBER Reporter articles from September 2001

NBER Reporter archives from September 2001

The business cycle peak of March 2001: Business cycle dating committee, national bureau of economic research (*). (Program Report).(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee has determined that a peak in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in March 2001. A peak marks the end of an expansion and the beginning of a recession. The determination of a peak date in...

What might school accountability do? (Research Summaries).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... David N. Figlio (*) Education is currently at the forefront of the nation's political agenda: everyone, regardless of political persuasion, wants to see an improvement in the performance of U.S. schools. This consensus ends abruptly,...

Alcohol and violence.
September 22, 2001... Sara Markowitz (*) Since the early 1980s, a number of economists have examined the impact of the price of alcoholic beverages on alcohol consumption. Recently their research has turned to the role of alcohol prices on negative outcomes,...

Taxes, welfare, and work by single mothers.
September 22, 2001... Bruce D. Meyer (*) Between 1984 and 1996, changes in tax and transfer programs sharply increased the incentives for single mothers to work. Two aspects of these policy changes are often overlooked. First, many important policy changes...

Medical care and economywide price indexes.
September 22, 2001... Joseph P. Newhouse (*) It is well known that price indexes for service industries are subject to considerable error. However, errors in medical care price indexes are particularly significant because of that sector's share of the economy....

NBER Profile: David N. Figlio.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... David N. Figlio is the Walter J. Matherly Professor of Economics at the University of Florida and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.S. in Business Economics and Public Policy from the...

NBER Profile: Sara J. Markowitz.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Sara J. Markowitz has been an NBER Faculty Research Fellow since 1998, but has worked in NBER's New York office since 1994, when she was hired as a research assistant. She received her B.A. from Rutgers College and her Ph. D. from the Graduate...

NBER Profile: Josepb P. Newhouse.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Joseph P. Newhouse, an NBER Research Associate in the Programs on Health Care, Health Economics, Children, and Productivity, is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. He is a member of the...

Twelfth Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics: Privatization, corporate governance, and transition economies. (Conferences).
September 22, 2001... The NBER's Twelfth Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE) sponsored jointly with Hong Kong university of Science and Technology (HKU), Korea Development Institute(KDI), Korea for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Tokyo Center for...

NBER researchers share nobel prize in economics. (Bureau News).(Joseph E. Stiglitz)
September 22, 2001... NBER Research Associate Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University, NBER Director George A. Akerlof of the University of California, Berkeley, and former NBER researcher A. Michael Spence of Stanford University will share the 2001 Nobel Prize in...

More NBER researchers Head to service in Washington. (Bureau News).(Richard H. Clarida)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Richard H. Clarida, an NBER Research Associate in the Programs in "International Finance and Macroeconomics" and "International Trade and Investment," has been nominated to become assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. His...

Twenty-second NBER summer institute held in 2001. (Bureau News).
September 22, 2001... In the summer of 2001, the NBER held its twenty-second annual Summer Institute. More than 1100 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. As in prior years, this year's program was funded primarily by a grant...

Economic fluctuations and growth. (Bureau News).
September 22, 2001... Roughly one hundred academic macroeconomists from all over the world gathered in Cambridge on July 21 to attend the summer research meeting of NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth. The meeting was organized by Mark Bils, NBER and...

Japan group meets in Tokyo. (Bureau News).
September 22, 2001... Members of the NBER's Working Group on Japan and their guests met in Tokyo on September 14-15. Theft two-day session was organized by Magnus Blomstrom, NBER and Stockholm School of Economics; Jennifer Corbett, Oxford University; Fumio Hayashi,...

Economic fluctuations and growth. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth held its fall research meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on October 19. Charles Jones and David H. Romer, both of the NBER and University of California at Berkeley, organized...

International finance and macroeconomics. (Bureau News).(National Bureau of Economic Research's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics meeting)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on October 26 Charles M. Engel, NBER and University of Wisconsin, and Linda Tesar, NBER and University of Michigan, organized this program:...

Economics of education. (Bureau News).(National Bureau of Economic Research meeting)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on the Economics of Education, directed by Caroline M. Hoxby, NBER and Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 1. The following papers were discussed. Raquel Fernandez, NBER and New York University, "Education,...

Behavioral finance. (Bureau News).(National Bureau of Economic Research meeting)
September 22, 2001... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Finance, directed by Robert J. Shiller, NBER and Yale University, and Richard H. Thaler, NBER and University of Chicago, met in Cambridge on November 10. They discussed the following papers: Andrei...

"Straining at the Anchor". (Bureau Books).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Straining at the Anchor. The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935 is available from the University of Chicago Press this fall for $35.00. This NBER monograph was written by Gerardo della Paolera and...

Themes in the Economics of Aging. (Bureau Books).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Themes in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $75.00. This eighth in a series of NBER Project Reports on the economics of aging looks at the implications of private and public...

Aging Issues in the United States and Japan. (Bureau Books).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Aging Issues in the United States and Japan, edited by Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $75.00. This NBER Conference Volume, the third in a joint series offered by...