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February 2004, Vol. 127, No. 2

Publications received

Access to Money Income in the United States: 2002 Annual Demographic Supplement to the Current Population Survey on the Characteristics and Incomes of Americans. Ithaca, NY, New Strategist Publications, 2003, 400 pp., $89.95/softcover.

Access to Poverty in the United States: 2002 Annual Demographic Supplement to the Current Population Survey on the Poverty Status, Health Insurance Coverage, and Pension Plan Participation of Americans. Ithaca, NY, New Strategist Publications, 2003, 400 pp., $89.95/softcover.

Angrist, Joshua D., Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 39 pp. (Working Paper 9708) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hunt, Jennifer, Teen Births Keep American Crime High. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 42 pp. (Working Paper 9632) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lichtenberg, Frank R., The Impact of New Drug Launches on Longevity: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data from 52 Countries, 1982–2001. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 37 pp. (Working Paper 9754) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Auer, Peter and Sandrine Cazes, eds., Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility: Evidence from Industrialized Countries. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2003, 300 pp., $22.95/paperback.

Berry, Steven and Joel Waldfogel, Product Quality and Market Size. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 36 pp. (Working Paper 9675) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Block, Richard N., Karen Roberts, and R. Oliver Clarke, Labor Standards in the United States and Canada. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2003, 176 pp., $18/paperback.

Blyth, Mark, Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 284 pp., $22/paperback.

Gittleman, Maury, Thijs ten Raa, and Edward N. Wolff, The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 27 pp. (Working Paper 9768) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Guthrie, Doug, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002, 302 pp., $22.95/paperback.

Ogawa, Kazuo, Financial Distress and Employment: The Japanese Case in the 90s. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 28 pp. (Working Paper 9646) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Dowrick, Steve, Ideas and Education: Level or Growth Effects?. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 30 pp. (Working Paper 9709) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lach, Saul and Mark Schankerman, Incentives and Invention in Universities. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 42 pp. (Working Paper 9727) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Pollak, Robert A. and Donna K. Ginther, Does Family Structure Affect Children’s Educational Outcomes? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 48 pp. (Working Paper 9628) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Block, Richard N., ed., Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, 186 pp., $40/cloth; $15/paperback.

Linder, Marc, Void Where Prohibited Revisited: The Trickle-Down Effect of OSHA’s At-Will Bathroom-Break Regulation. Iowa City, Fanpihua Press, 2003, 382 pp., paperback.

Weil, David, Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 47 pp. (Working Paper 9565) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Witwer, David, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union. Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2003, 298 pp., $39.95/cloth.

Industry and government organization

Botero, Juan, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio López-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shliefer, The Regulation of Labor. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 60 pp. (Working Paper 9756) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Greenstein, Shane and Michael Mazzeo, Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation: Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 32 pp. (Working Paper 9761) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Trajtenberg, Manuel, Defense R&D Policy in the Anti-Terrorist Era. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9725) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Brown, Drusilla K., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern, The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 58 pp. (Working Paper 9669) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ryan, Christopher K., Harry Gunnison Brown: An Orthodox Economist and His Contributions. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, 270 pp., $34.95/paperback.

Kim, Sukkoo and Robert A. Margo, Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Growth. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 61 pp. (Working Paper 9594) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bernstein, Jared and Dean Baker, The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People. Washington, DC, Economic Policy Institute, 2003, 112 pp., paperback.

Borjas, George J., The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 54 pp. (Working Paper 9755) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Farber, Henry S., Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York Cab Drivers. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 41 pp. (Working Paper 9706) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Farber, Henry S., Job Loss in the United States, 1981–2001. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 41 pp. (Working Paper 9707) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Wheeler, Hoyt N., The Future of the American Labor Movement. New York, Cam-bridge University Press, 2002, 257 pp., $23/paperback.

Alkhafaji, Abbass F., Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment. New York, The Haworth Press, 2003, 317 pp., paperback.

Black, Sandra E., Lisa M. Lynch, and Anya Krivelyova, How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 38 pp. (Working Paper 9569) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Rajan, Raghuram G. and Julie Wulf, The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 53 pp. (Working Paper 9633) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Adams, Scott and David Neumark, Living Wage Effects: New and Improved Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9702) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Wolfers, Justin, Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Well-being. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 26 pp. (Working Paper 9619) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bai, Chong-En and Chi-Wa Yuen, eds., Technology and the New Economy. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2003, 312 pp., $32.95/cloth.

Gronau, Reuben and Daniel S. Hamermesh, Time vs. Goods: The Value of Measuring Household Production Technologies. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 24 pp. (Working Paper 9650) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Bronwyn H., Stuart J. H. Graham, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery, Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality Via Post-Grant Opposition. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 24 pp. (Working Paper 9731) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Wang, Jiann-Chyuan and Kuen-Hung Tsai, Productivity Growth and R&D Expenditure in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Firms. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 23 pp. (Working Paper 9724) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Darboe, Kebba, An Empirical Study of the Social Correlates of Job Satisfaction among Plant Science Graduates of a Midwestern University: A Test of Victor H. Vroom’s (1964) Expectancy Theory. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 2003, 140 pp., $27/paperback.

Ermisch, John F., An Economic Analysis of the Family. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003, 271 pp., $35/hardcover.

Moe, Karine S., ed., Women, Family, and Work. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 239 pp., $34.95/paperback.

Bright, Elise M., Reviving America’s Forgotten Neighborhoods: An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts. New York, Routledge, 2003, 203 pp., $21.95/softcover.

Farber, Henry S., Nonunion Wage Rates and the Threat of Unionization. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 31 pp. (Working Paper 9705) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gerhart, Barry and Sara L. Rynes, Compensation: Theory, Evidence, and Strategic Implications. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2003, 310 pp., $56/hardcover; $39.95/softcover.

Goldman, Dana P., Neeraj Sood, and Arleen A. Leibowitz, The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 17 pp. (Working Paper 9540) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma and Robert Kaestner, Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-Wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 34 pp. (Working Paper 9688) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

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