- Taxation and economic growth.
INTRODUCTION By now, a presidential campaign is incomplete without at least one proposal for tax reform. Recent proposals suggested that by reducing marginal tax rates, ......
- Output variability and economic growth: The case of Australia
HEADNOTE Abstract HEADNOTE This paper looks at the relationship between output variability and economic growth in Australia using the ARCH-M model. Quarterly data for growth ......
- Savings, investment, productivity and economic growth of Australia 1861-1990: Some...
HEADNOTE Policy makers' concerns over sub-optimal savings rates in Australia mistakenly concentrate on symptoms rather than causes of low rates of growth in investment and ......
- Computer-aided instruction
A witticism attributed to Robert Solow holds that, "We can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." There is widespread agreement that ......
- Building organizational capital
In their NBER Working Paper (Number 8722), Andrew Atkeson and Patrick J. Kehoe report that nearly 9 percent of the output of the manufacturing sector ......
- Pollution and discrimination
Although less so than in the past, occupations are still segregated by sex. In a recent paper, Claudia Goldin of Harvard University develops a "pollution" ......
- NBER Profile: Eric A. Hanushek.
Eric A. Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a Research Associate of the National ......
- Dispersion of commercial Internet use
Basic access to the Internet is now part of the basic investment needed to do business, according to a NBER working paper by Chris Forman, ......
- Retirement and well-being
The raw correlation between retirement status and subjective well-being is generally negative. Correlation is not causation, however, as a recent NBER Working Paper, "Is Retirement ......
- Explaining economic growth
Economic growth occurs due to increases in the inputs of production-- such as labor, capital, and materials-and increases in efficiency of input use (which is ......
- Analyzing skill content
Many examinations of the demand for skills in the labor market depend on measores of the educational attainment of job incumbents to measure the level ......
- Health measures
In the June issue of this Review, Thomas W. Hale described the difficulties researchers would encounter attempting to use the type of subjective selfreport of ......
- "Local Revenue Hills: A General Equilibrium
Specification with Evidence from Four U.S.
Haughwout, Andrew; Inman, Robert; Craig, Steven; and Luce, Thomas National Bureau of Economic Research's NBER Working Paper Series, March 2000. Though the idea that increasing ......
- Concrete productivity statistics
Persistent and substantial variations in productivity among individual factories have been observed, even in industries that are narrowly defined. Attempts to explain this variation have ......
- Attitude and altitude
Studies of individuals' work attitudes and individual performance have generally shown, at best, weak relationships between the two, according to a NBER working paper by ......