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May 2004, Vol. 127, No. 5

Publications received

Heckman, James J., Lance J. Lochner, and Petra E. Todd, Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 71 pp. (Working Paper 9732) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Heckman, James J., Rosa Matzkin, and Lars Nesheim, Simulation and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 80 pp. (Working Paper 9895) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Kaplow, Louis, The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 15 pp. (Working Paper 9852) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. and William A. Sundstrom, The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850–1990. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 50 pp. (Working Paper 9857) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Zucker, Lynne G. and Michael R. Darby, Measuring Success of Advanced Technology Program Participation Using Archival Data. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 49 pp. (Working Paper 9780) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Baumol, William J., The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002, 318 pp., $37.50/hardcover.

Blejer, Mario I. and Marko Skreb, eds., Transition: The First Decade. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002, 516 pp., $62/cloth.

Montenegro, Claudio E. and Carmen Pagés, Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations?: Chile 1960–1998. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 31 pp. (Working Paper 9850) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa, The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 30 pp. (Working Paper 9716) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Boyd, Donald, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 48 pp. (Working Paper 9878) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Collins, William J. and Robert A. Margo, Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 51 pp. (Working Paper 9770) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Cox, Alejandra and Manuelita Ureta, International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9766) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Heckman, James J. and Xuesong Li, Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 29 pp. (Working Paper 9877) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Industry and government organization

Acemoglu, Daron, Michael Kremer, and Atif Mian, Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 45 pp. (Working Paper 9802) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Attanasio, Orazio, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, and Nina Pavcnik, Trade Reforms and Wage Inequality in Colombia. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 51 pp. (Working Paper 9830) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hasan, Rana, Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 53 pp. (Working Paper 9879) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lim, Youngjae and Chin Hee Hahn, Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea: Evidence from Macro Data. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 50 pp. (Working Paper 9810) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Findlay, Ronald, Lars Jonung, and Mats Lundahl, Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration (1899–1999). Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002, 546 pp., $63/cloth.

Galenson, David W., Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of Modern American Poets. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 60 pp. (Working Paper 9856) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mokyr, Joel, The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002, 359 pp., $35/hardcover.

Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan, Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 39 pp. (Working Paper 9873) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lang, Kevin and Sumon Majumdar, The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 33 pp. (Working Paper 9911) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Fonow, Mary Margaret, Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, 250 pp., $59.95/cloth; $19.95/paperback.

Gibbons, Robert, Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 39 pp. (Working Paper 9849) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Thomas, David C., Readings and Cases in International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2003, 392 pp., $57.95/paperback.

Bolton, Patrick, Jose Scheinkman, and Wei Xiong, Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behavior in Speculative Markets. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 34 pp. (Working Paper 9722) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Boone, Jan and Lans Bovenberg, The Optimal Taxation of Unskilled Labor with Job Search and Social Assistance. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 37 pp. (Working Paper 9785) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Brian J. and Kevin J. Murphy, The Trouble with Stock Options. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 39 pp. (Working Paper 9784) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Caballero, Ricardo J. and Eduardo Engel, Adjustment Is Much Slower Than You Think. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 29 pp. (Working Paper 9898) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Christiano, Lawrence J., Martin Eichenbaum, and Robert Vigfusson, What Happens After a Technology Shock? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9819) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Darby, Michael R. and Lynne G. Zucker, Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 62 pp. (Working Paper 9825) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Dechenaux, Emmanuel, Brent Goldfarb, Scott A. Shane, and Marie C. Thursby, Appropriability and the Timing of Innovation: Evidence from MIT Inventions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9735) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Bronwyn H., Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 28 pp. (Working Paper 9717) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Bronwyn H. and Beethika Khan, Adoption of New Technology. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 19 pp. (Working Paper 9730) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hamermesh, Daniel S. and Amy M. Parker, Beauty in the Classroom: Professors’ Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 19 pp. (Working Paper 9853) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Jensen, Richard, Jerry G. Thursby, and Marie C. Thursby, The Disclosure and Licensing of University Inventions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 34 pp. (Working Paper 9734) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Maurer, Stephen M. and Suzanne Scotchmer, Procuring Knowledge. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 39 pp. (Working Paper 9903) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Popp, David, Entice: Endogenous Technological Change in the Dice Model of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 54 pp. (Working Paper 9762) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Freeman, Richard B., What, Me Vote? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 49 pp. (Working Paper 9896) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye and Jesse M. Fried, Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 25 pp. (Working Paper 9813) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Brian J., Six Challenges in Designing Equity-Based Pay. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 27 pp. (Working Paper 9887) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Maloney, William F. and Jairo Nunez Mendez, Measuring the Impact of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Latin America. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 27 pp. (Working Paper 9800) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Allen, Steven G., Robert L. Clark, and Linda S. Ghent, Phasing Into Retirement. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 30 pp. (Working Paper 9779) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Baker, Michael, Emily Hanna, and Jasmin Kantarevic, The Married Widow: Marriage Penalties Matter! Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 51 pp. (Working Paper 9782) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Borjas, George J., Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 42 pp. (Working Paper 9781) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Case, Anne, Angela Fertig, and Christina Paxson, From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 41 pp. (Working Paper 9788) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan, Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 57 pp. (Working Paper 9760) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Moriguchi, Chiaki, Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach Their Implicit Contracts? Preliminary Findings from Company-Level Data, 1920–1940. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 40 pp. (Working Paper 9868) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neumark, David and Elizabeth T. Powers, The Effects of Changes in State SSI Supplements on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 33 pp. (Working Paper 9851) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Witte, Ann Dryden and Magaly Queralt, Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9693) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Worker training and development

Heckman, James J. and Jeffrey A. Smith, The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 75 pp. (Working Paper 9818) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lazear, Edward P., Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 28 pp. (Working Paper 9679) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Northouse, Peter G., Leadership Theory and Practice Third Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2004, 41 pp., $42.95/softcover.

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