The NBER Digest: June 2005 Issue


 

Publication Date: June 2005

Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Research Area: Economics

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The following articles appear in this issue:

* The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births * Fighting Deflation in the U.S. and Japan * The Effect of Newer Drugs on Survival * The Productivity Slowdown of the 1970s * The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality

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