Archive of NBER Digest -- 2012
The following summaries of NBER Working Papers have appeared in previous issues of the NBER Digest. |
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The 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives
Letter Grading Government Efficiency
Mental Accounting and Gasoline Consumption
The Value of Bosses
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth
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The Benefits of College Athletic Success
Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Competition and Ideological Diversity among Newspapers
Projection Bias in the Car and Housing Markets
A New Look at Second Liens
Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance
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Plan Selection in Medicare Part D
Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance
The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Who Benefits from Cheap Crude Oil in the Midwest?
Multinationals and the High Cash Holdings Puzzle
The End of Rent Control in Cambridge
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice
Protectionism Isn't Counter-Cyclic (Anymore)
The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
The 2009 Federal Tobacco Excise Tax Increase and Youth Tobacco Use
Trade Credit and Taxes
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Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce
Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant
Debt Overhangs: Past and Present
Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers
The Challenge of Macro-Prudential Regulation
Comparing Real Wages
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Which Groups Suffer Most in the Labor Market During Recessions?
Education and Labor Market Effects of College-Prep Incentive Programs
Private Equity Performance
The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates
The Decision to Delay Social Security Benefits
Hiring Decisions for High-Value Employees: Evidence from March Madness Performance
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Explaining the Rise of Unemployment
Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy
Valuing the Vote
Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
Time as a Trade Barrier
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
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Providing Retiree Health Insurance Encourages Early Retirement
Changing Inequality in College Entry and Completion
New Estimates of the Housing Wealth Effect
The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009
Measuring the Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol Tax Increase
Airports, Air Pollution, and Health
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Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss
For-Profit Postsecondary Schools
Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debt-holder Conflicts
Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment
CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
Saving Rates in Developing Asia
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Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises
What Makes a Charter School Effective?
White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing
Economic Conditions Have an Effect on CEOs
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The Impact of the Real Estate Market on Fertility
Corporate Acquisitions, Diversification, and the Firm's Lifecycle
What Do Boards Really Do?
Culture and Norms Affect Immigrant Women's Work
Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
Copyright Protection and the Quality of Recorded Music Since Napster
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Private Equity and Employment
Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle
Who Makes Financial Decisions within Private Companies?
Race and Ethnicity in the College Classroom
Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics