Archive of NBER Digest -- 2014

The following summaries of NBER Working Papers have appeared in previous issues of the NBER Digest.

December 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Large, Modern Retailers Pay Comparatively High Wages
Oil Prices and Production: A Remodeling
Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag
Higher Unemployment Insurance Boosts Consumer Credit
Effects of Mortality on Fertility after 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Who Benefits When States Cut Corporate Taxes?

November 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Corporate Board Quotas and Labor Market Outcomes for Women
Insurer Competition and Premiums on Health Exchanges
Informed Shoppers and Brand Premiums
Agglomeration of Bankruptcy
Long-Term Damage from the Great Recession in OECD Countries
Student Absences, Instructional Time, and Academic Achievement

October 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

House Price Gains and U.S. Household Spending from 2002 to 2006
Consequences of Legalizing Marijuana
Longer-Term Consequences of the Financial Crisis
Discount Rates for the Very Long Run
Wage and Employment Effects of Foreign STEM Workers
How Do Health Care Providers Respond to Public Health Insurance Expansions?

September 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy
Do ETFs Increase Stock Volatility?
Patent Expiration and Pharmaceutical Prices
Transfer Taxes and the Real Estate Market
Spatial Mismatch and the Duration of Joblessness
Measuring Credit Risk in the Euro Area

August 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Corporate Governance and Cross-Listed Firms
Ethnic Patterns in Scientific Collaboration
German-Jewish Émigrés and Innovation in the United States
Innovative Ways to Increase Tax Compliance
Recessions are Risky for the Top 1 Percent
Social Media and the Measurement of Labor Market Flows

July 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Evasive Shareholder Meetings
Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
Learning by Doing in Wind Power
Federal Reserve "Tapering" News and Emerging Markets
Crime Reduction from Cashless Welfare Payments
Does Successful Patenting Relax Financial Constraints?

June 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

What Determines the "Reservation Wage" of Unemployed Workers?
Scale and Skill among Active Portfolio Managers
Long-Term Effects of a Student's High School Experience
Earnings Consequences of the Clean Air Act
In-Work Tax Credits and the Safety Net
How Durable are Social Norms?

May 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession
Charter Schools, Test Outcomes, and Behavioral Change
CEO Behavior: Are Family CEOs Different?
Local Knowledge Matters for Real Estate Investors
Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Medical Malpractice Laws and Health Care Quality

April 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Effective Tax Rates of Multinational Firms
Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance
Who Pays for Public Employee Health Care Costs?
Income Changes over the Business Cycle: Was the Great Recession Different?
Comparing Managerial Control and Performance Pay
Is Voting Habit-Forming?

March 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Recalls from Unemployment
The Effects of Expanded Medicaid Coverage
Pass-Through of Emissions Charges in Electricity Markets
Prizes and Productivity
Use-It-or-Lose-It Budget Rules
Birth Order and Student Performance

February 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

New Evidence on the Effects of Credit Card Regulations
Retiree Health Insurance and Early Retirement in the Public Sector
Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation?
Price Sensitivity of College Application Decisions
How "Sticky" are Investments in Defined Contribution Pension Plans?
How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

January 2014 Issue     Full issue available as PDF

Capital Market Integration and Branch Banking
Measuring the Long-Term Impacts of Teachers
Point of Collection and the Pass-Through of Excise Taxes
Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth?
The Impact of Greater Transparency in Financial Markets
Can Higher Prices Increase Market Share? Average Wholesale Prices and Medicaid Drug Procurement