The NBER Digest: December 2003 Issue


 

Publication Date: December 2003

Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Research Area: Economics

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The following articles appear in this issue:

* Mutual Fund Portfolio Contagion * New Drugs and Increased Longevity * Private Insurance Replaces Medicaid Cutbacks for Immigrants * Coordinated Currency Interventions Temporarily Move Exchange Rates * State Education Subsidies Shift Students to Public Universities * Is Manual Labor Bad for your Health?

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