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August 2004, Vol. 127, No. 8

Publications received

Agriculture and natural resources

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Farm Household Income: Issues and Policy Responses. Paris, OECD Publications, 2003, 83 pp., softcover.

Cooper, Russell and Jonathan Willis, The Cost of Labor Adjustment: Inferences from the Gap. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 22 pp. (Working Paper 10006) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Cummins, Jason C., A New Approach to the Valuation of Intangible Capital. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 40 pp. (Working Paper 9924) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ekeland, Ivar, James J. Heckman, and Lars P. Nesheim, Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 72 pp. (Working Paper 9910) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Archibugi, Danielle and Bengt-Åke Lundvall, eds., The Globalizing Learning Economy. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002, 307 pp., softcover.

Krueger, Dirk and Krishna Kumar, US-Europe Differences in Technology-Driven Growth: Quantifying the Role of Education. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 31 pp. (Working Paper 10001) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Education Policy Analysis 2002. Paris, OECD Publications, 2002, 133 pp., softcover.

Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz, The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 56 pp. (Working Paper 9958) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Miguel Urquiola, When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile’s Nationwide School Voucher Program. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 43 pp. (Working Paper 10008) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen, The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 60 pp. (Working Paper 9964) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Thursby, Jerry G. and Marie C. Thursby, Are Faculty Critical? Their Role in University-Industry Licensing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 32 pp. (Working Paper 9991) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Blanchflower, David and Alex Bryson, What Effect Do Unions Have on Wages Now And Would ‘What Do Unions Do?’ Be Surprised? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 56 pp. (Working Paper 9973) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Brock, Jonathan and David B. Lipsky, eds., Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2003, 320 pp., $29.95/paperback.

Martin, Philip L., Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2003, 240 pp., $49.95/cloth; $21.95/paperback.

Industry and government organization

Acemoglu, Daron and Simon Johnson, Unbundling Institutions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 63 pp. (Working Paper 9934) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van, Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 42 pp. (Working Paper 10020) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Caselli, Francesco and Daniel Wilson, Importing Technology. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 40 pp. (Working Paper 9928) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Elliott, Kimberly Ann and Richard B. Freeman, Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? Washington, DC, Institute for International Economics, 2003, 179 pp., $25/paperback.

Erdem, Erkan and James Tybout, Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses: Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 35 pp. (Working Paper 9947) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Freeman, Richard B., Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 33 pp. (Working Paper 10000) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Alexander, Robert J., A History of Organized Labor in Brazil. Westport, CT, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003, 231 pp., $63.95/hardcover.

Galenson, David W., The Reappearing Masterpiece: Ranking American Artists and Art Works of the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 35 pp. (Working Paper 9935) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lichtenstein, Nelson, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003, 352 pp., $18.95/paperback.

Zaniello, Tom, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2003, 434 pp., $52.50/cloth; $24.95/paperback.

Zieger, Robert H. and Gilbert J. Gall, American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century Third Edition. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 292 pp., $17.95/paperback.

Baumol, William J., Alan S. Blinder, and Edward N. Wolff, Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003, 264 pp., $29.95/cloth.

Gornick, Janet C. and Marcia Meyers, Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003, 535 pp., $39.95/cloth.

Stapleton, David C. and Richard V. Burkhauser, The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, 448 pp., $45/cloth; $22/paperback.

Adler, Niclas, A.B. (Rami) Shani, and Alexander Styhre, Collaborative Research in Organizations: Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical Development. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc., 2004, 383 pp., $44.95/softcover.

Bartel, Ann, Richard Freeman, Casey Ichniowski, and Morris M. Kleiner, Can A Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 43 pp. (Working Paper 9987) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Edwards, Jack E., John C. Scott, and Nambury S. Raju, eds., The Human Resources Program-Evaluation Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc., 2003, 571 pp., $89.95/softcover.

Fineman, Stephen, Understanding Emotion at Work. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc., 2003, 203 pp., $32.95/softcover.

Barberis, Nicholas, Ming Huang, and Richard Thaler, Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 48 pp. (Working Paper 9997) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Taxing Wages Special Feature: Taxing Families 2001–2002. Paris, OECD Publications, 2003, 418 pp., softcover.

Abel, Jaison R., Ernst R. Berndt, and Alan G. White, Price Indexes for Microsoft’s Personal Computer Software Products. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 29 pp. (Working Paper 9966) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Benkard, C. Lanier and Patrick Bajari, Hedonic Price Indexes with Unobserved Product Characteristics, and Application to PC’s. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9980) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Agrawal, Ajay K., Iain M. Cockburn, and John McHale, Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 34 pp. (Working Paper 9950) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein, How Did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village, Urban Density, and Industry Composition. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 46 pp. (Working Paper 9979) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Popp, David, Lessons from Patents: Using Patents to Measure Technological Change in Environmental Models. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 31 pp. (Working Paper 9978) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Rohlfs, Jeffrey H., Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology Industries. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2003, 256 pp., $16.95/paperback.

Social institutions and social change

Austen-Smith, David and Roland G. Fryer, Jr., The Economics of ‘Acting White.’ Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 38 pp. (Working Paper 9904) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Berman, Eli, Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist’s View of Radical Religious Militias. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 38 pp. (Working Paper 10004) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Fryer Jr., Roland G. and Steven D. Levitt, The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 51 pp. (Working Paper 9938) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Helburn, Suzanne W. and Barbara R. Bergmann, America’s Child Care Problem: The Way Out. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 262 pp., $19.95/paperback.

Kapstein, Ethan B. and Branko Milanovic, Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economics. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, 120 pp., $40/cloth; $14/paperback.

Wolfers, Justin, Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 26 pp. (Working Paper 10014) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Robert E., Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 28 pp. (Working Paper 9967) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Buzzi, Frank J., Twenty-Second Actuarial Valuation of the Assets and Liabilities Under the Railroad Retirement Acts as of December 31, 2001 with Technical Supplement. Chicago, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Bureau of the Actuary, 2003, 92 pp.

Corman, Hope, Nancy E. Reichman, and Kelly Noonan, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Labor Supply in Fragile Families: The Role of Child Health. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 46 pp. (Working Paper 9918) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Friedberg, Leora and Anthony Webb, Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 43 pp. (Working Paper 9999) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gustman, Alan L. and Thomas L. Steinmeier, Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 47 pp. (Working Paper 10030) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Worker training and development

Ahlstrand, Amanda L., Laurie J. Bassi, and Daniel P. McMurrer, Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, 184 pp., $40/cloth; $18/paperback.

Moore, Richard W., Daniel R. Blake, G. Michael Phillips, and Daniel McConaughy, Training That Works: Lessons from California’s Employment Training Panel Program. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, 219 pp., softcover.

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