The NBER Digest: April 2005 Issue

Publication Date: April 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:

* Bulls, Bears, and Retirement Behavior * Effects of Co-payment on Prescription Drug Demand * How Households Responded to Tax Rebates of 2001 * The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13 * New Drugs and HIV Mortality * Globalization and Poverty in Mexico

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