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For each author, articles are listed in reverse chronological order. Back issues are available electronically from Fall 1996 onward. Prior issues may be ordered in hard copy from the Research Library.

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Andreas, Peter

Border Security in the Age of Globalization: How Can We Protect Ourselves without Losing the Benefits of Openness?
Full text pdf | Quarter 3, 2003

Autor, David H.

Upstairs, Downstairs
with Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002

Banisar, David

Manufacturers Should Be Liable When Computer Bugs Leave Consumers in the Lurch
Full text pdf | Quarter 3, 2002

Barber, William J.

FDR's Big Government Legacy
Full text | Summer 1997

Baxandall, Phineas

Taxing Habits
Full text | Quarter 1, 2003

Blau, Francine D.

Does Affirmative Action Work?
with Anne E. Winkler
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Bleakley, Hoyt

In a Booming Economy, Unemployment Has Remained Surprisingly High
with Ann Ferris and Jeff Fuhrer
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Boucher, Norman

Righting the Scales
Reform of health care has already begun
with Jane Little
Fall 1994

A Well-Trodden Wilderness
The trees aren't what they used to be
Spring 1994

Bends in the River
A natural history of the Connecticut Valley industrial district
Winter 1994

Bradbury, Katharine

Women’s Rise- A Work in Progress: Are Professional Women Opting Out? Recent Evidence on College-Educated Women's Labor Force Participation
with Jane Katz
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Are Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal? Looking at New Evidence on Family Income Mobility
with Jane Katz
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2002

How Much do Expansions Reduce the Black-White Unemployment Gap?
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000

Chasing Good Schools in Massachusetts
with Karl Case and Christopher Mayer
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

Brown, Laura

All Aboard
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999

Browne, Lynn E.

What's in a Number? The Investment Boom Isn't Quite What it Seems
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000

Are We Saving and Investing Too Little?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

Brunetta, Leslie

Economic Forecasting
How theories were put to practical business use
Fall 1993

New England's Take on Biotech
The biotech biz is no clone of the minicomputer
Summer 1992

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Campbell, John

The Market for Hotels
If they come, will you build it?
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998

The Boom in Busts
Insurance against calamity
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998

Before the Next Cataclysm
The search for protection against natural disasters
Full text | Summer 1997

Inside the Market for Private Businesses
Buying and selling private firms
Full text | Spring 1997

Playing the Pieces of New England's Airport System
Full text | Winter 1997

Perpetual Uncertainty
The process of invention
Full text | Fall 1996

Time to Shop
The geography of retailing
Full text | Summer 1996

Behind the Classroom Door
Better teaching matters
Spring 1996

Embracing the Enemy
Former adversaries ally to restructure electricity generation
Winter 1996

When You Can't Go See Somebody
Advertising to business
Fall 1995

Mid-Life Crisis on Route 128
Time to shed a confining culture
Summer 1995

Products of Good Schooling
Business is demanding better academics for all students
Spring 1995

Goodbye Central
The blast of revolution in telecommunications
Winter 1995

Statecraft
Economic ambitions in Connecticut
Fall 1994

The Richest Crop
What moves the price of a house
Summer 1994

Policing Crime
Weighing the costs and benefits
Spring 1994

The Ecology Alchemists
Regulation shapes the envirotech industry
Winter 1994

Did the Credit Crunch Cause a Rash of Business Failures?
Winter 1994

After the Credit Crunch
Implications for credit and monetary policy
Fall 1993

Sheepskin Blues
Academe reacts to economic change
Summer 1993

Setting Environmental Priorities
Getting right with the Earth
Spring 1993

Where Opportunity Rings
Movement along the social scale remains fluid
Winter 1993

Defense Conversion
What it Means for Companies, Workers, and Communities
Fall 1992

Measured Approach to Tort Reform
Liability law works better than its reputation
Summer 1992

Investing in the Front Line or the New Era of Cutting Metal
Smart production is replacing mass production
Spring 1992

New New Englanders
The ties that propel immigrant communities
Winter 1992

Downtown New England
Center cities thrive when connected to their regions

Fall 1991

Striking a Better Bargain
The electricity industry proves reform is possible
Summer 1991

Proceed With Caution
Spring 1991

How Long Will It Last?
Winter 1991

Case, Karl

Chasing Good Schools in Massachusetts
with Katharine Bradbury and Christopher Mayer
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

Caves, Richard E.

From our Bookshelf
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001

Conaway, Carrie

Paying the Price: How Family Choices Affect Career Outcomes
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Where Does the Time Go? The Division of Household Labor
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

A Psychological Effect of Stereotypes
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Objects of Desire
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Accidents Will Happen
Full text | Quarter 3, 2003

Like Father, Like Son
Full text | Quarter 2, 2003

Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Bad
Full text | Quarter 1, 2003

Doing Well by Doing Time?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2002

Chances Aren't
Full text | Quarter 3, 2002

Preserving Our Past
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002

Virtual University
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002

Diagnosis: Shortage
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001

Cooper, Richard N.

Competition & Opportunity
with Jane Little
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001

Cutler, David M.

Tobacco Manufacturers are Now Compensating States for Smoking-Related Costs. How Will This Affect the Economy?
with Jonathan Gruber, Raymond S. Hartman, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Meredith B. Rosenthal
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2002

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De Long, J. Bradford

Slouching Toward Utopia
What is the history of the 20th century?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

The Misfortunes of Prosperity
Full text | Winter 1997

England, Richard W.

A New England Approach to Preserving Open Space
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2002

Ferris, Ann

In a Booming Economy, Unemployment Has Remained Surprisingly High
with Hoyt Bleakley and Jeff Fuhrer
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Folbre, Nancy

Spinning the Top: Gender, Competition, and the Long-Run Optimum
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Foote, Chris

An Economist Reports from Baghdad
Full text | Quarter 3, 2003

Fortune, Peter

Is Margin Lending Marginal?
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001

Motoring Toward a Better Future
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000

Mutual Fund Myths
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998

Against the Gods
Full text | Spring 1997

Beam Me Up, Scotty. My Portfolio's in Warp Drive
Full text | Summer 1996

Fuhrer, Jeff

Issues in Economics: What Is the Cost of Deflation?
with Geoffrey M.B. Tootell
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

In a Booming Economy, Unemployment Has Remained Surprisingly High
with Hoyt Bleakley and Ann Ferris
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Teaching Economics
Full text | Summer 1996

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Glaeser, Edward

Ghettos
The Changing Consequences of Ethnic Isolation
Full text | Spring 1997

Goldin, Claudia

From the Valley to the Summit: A Brief History of the Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women’s Work
A brief history of the quiet revolution that transformed women's work
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

The Shaping of Higher Education in the United States and New England
with Lawrence F. Katz
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001

Gruber, Jonathan

Tobacco Manufacturers are Now Compensating States for Smoking-Related Costs. How Will This Affect the Economy?
with David M. Cutler, Raymond S. Hartman, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Meredith B. Rosenthal
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2002

Hartman, Raymond S.

Tobacco Manufacturers are Now Compensating States for Smoking-Related Costs. How Will This Affect the Economy?
with David M. Cutler, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Meredith B. Rosenthal
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2002

Hellerstein, Rebecca

The Impact of Inflation
A tale of money and morals
Full text | Winter 1997

Hershbein, Brad

Milestones in Working Women's Legal History
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Hertz, Rosanna

Work and Leadership: Tests of Manhood
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

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Jacobsen, Joyce P.

Choices and Changes: Critical Moments in Careers and Families
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Jabaily, Robert

Can Pro Sports Survive Prosperity?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999

Consumer Confidence
More a reflection than a cause of economic conditions
with Joel Werkema
Summer 1993

Jordan, John

Banking in the Age of Information Technology
with Jane Katz
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

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Katz, Jane

Women’s Rise- A Work in Progress: Are Professional Women Opting Out? Recent Evidence on College-Educated Women's Labor Force Participation
with Katharine Bradbury
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Running in Cycles
Full text pdf | Quarter 2/Quarter 3, 2004

Issues in Economics
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2003

Get Me Headquarters!
Full text | Quarter 4, 2002

Are Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal?
Looking at New Evidence on Family Income Mobility
with Katharine Bradbury
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2002

What a Waste
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002

'Til Death Do U$ Part
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001

Business to Business on the Internet
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000

Making the Numbers
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000

Banking in the Age of Information Technology
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

When the Economy Goes South
What happens in a recession?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999

It's a Revolution, but Who is Winning?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999

It's Not Quite Business As Usual
New England's rural firms
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

Working at Odd Hours
Scheduling in the 'round-the-clock economy
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998

Corporate Governance
Who should be in charge?
Full text | Fall 1997

Getting Secure
Transforming assets into financing
Full text | Summer 1997

Farming in the Shadow of Suburbia
Full text | Spring 1997

Joy of Consumption
We are what we buy
Full text | Winter 1997

To Market, To Market
Strategy in high-tech firms
Full text | Fall 1996

The Kindness of Neighbors
How much can we depend on charity?
Full text | Summer 1996

Occupational Divide
Why segregation by sex is so persistent
Spring 1996

Franchise Nation
Aligning goals to sell pastry and coffee
Winter 1996

Cashing Out
The Treasurer's Evolving Role
Fall 1995

Who's on Welfare?
What do we know?
Summer 1995

High Bid
Auctions yield competition and information
Spring 1995

Going Public
IPO markets blow hot and cold
Winter 1995

Katz, Lawrence F.

The Shaping of Higher Education in the United States and New England
with Claudia Goldin
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001

Kimball, Ralph C.

Perils and Pitfalls in Risk Management
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000

Kodrzycki, Yolanda K.

Defense Windfall for New England?
with Pingkang David Yu
Full text pdf | Quarter 3, 2003

Retaining College Graduates in the Workforce: How Well is New England Doing?
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001

New England continues to grow, but more slowly than the nation
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

Kolko, Jed David

At Your Service
The new geography of service industries
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

Cities and Communications Technology
Full text | Spring 1997

Kropf, Marcia Brumit

Inspiring Girls to Be Strong, Smart, and Bold: Girls’ Organizations Change with the Times
Girls' organizations change with the times
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

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Lane, Julia

Too Many Cooks?
with Philip Moss, Harold Salzman, and Chris Tilly
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Larson, Pamela

Art Museums Go to Market
Where they try to serve many masters
with Susan Schacht
Summer 1994

Lasch, Kathryn

Job Security
Full text | Summer 1997

Lee, Julie

A Requiem for Classical Music?
Full text | Quarter 2, 2003

Lederer, Richard

Money Where Your Mouth Is
Full text | Fall 1997

Lesher, Molly

Seeds of Change
Full text pdf | Quarter 2/Quarter 3, 2004

Levy, Frank

Upstairs, Downstairs
with David H. Autor and Richard J. Murnane
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002

Levy, Paul F.

Teamwork on the Field and at Work
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Little, Jane

Perspective: Outsourcing Jobs Overseas: A Cause for Concern?
Full text pdf | Quarter 2/Quarter 3, 2004

Competition & Opportunity
with Richard N. Cooper
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001

A World of Difficult Currency Choices
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000

E Pluribus EMU?
How will Europe cope with a single currency?
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

The IMF Under Fire
It must be doing something right
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998

Anatomy of a Currency Crisis
What we can learn from Southeast Asia
Full text | Fall 1997

NAFTA: Fast Forward?
Full text | Summer 1997

Righting the Scales
Reform of health care has already begun
with Norman Boucher
Fall 1994

Necessity and Invention
The region is bound to foreign economies
Winter 1993

Lovejoy, Kristin

Putting Out the Welcome Mat
Full text | Quarter 2, 2003

Lynch, Lisa M.

Comments on "Spinning the Top"
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

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Mayer, Christopher

Chasing Good Schools in Massachusetts
with Katharine Bradbury and Karl Case
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

McIntyre, Lee

Building a Home of Your Own
Full text | Quarter 4, 2000 / Quarter 1, 2001

Childcare on Board
The growth of work-site daycare
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000

Making Money Keeps Getting Easier
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000

The Murder Mystery
Explaining the recent drop in homicide
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000

The Good, the Bad, and the Legally Permissible
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Miaoulis, Ioannis

Encouraging Women in Engineering, Math, and Science
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Molina, V. Sue

Changing the Face of Consulting: The Women's Initiative at Deloitte & Touche
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Morantz, Alison

Teens in the Workforce
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001

Moss, Philip

Too Many Cooks?
with Julia Lane Harold Salzman, and Chris Tilly
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Big City Labor Markets, Inner-City Workers
An employer's eye view
with Chris Tilly
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Murnane, Richard J.

Upstairs, Downstairs
with David H. Autor and Frank Levy
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002

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Newhouse, Joseph P.

Tobacco Manufacturers are Now Compensating States for Smoking-Related Costs. How Will This Affect the Economy?
with David M. Cutler, Jonathan Gruber, Raymond S. Hartman, and Meredith B. Rosenthal
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2002

Pain, Lynn Sharp

Bad People Do Not Have a Monopoly on Bad Deeds:
Taking an Organizational Approach to Ethics
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2002

Peters, Helen Frame

Improving Opportunities for Women: Five Suggestions for Encouraging Change
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Pinard, Mary

The Beginnings of Creativity
Full text | Fall 1996

Quigley, E. Matthew

Issues in Economics
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2003

Reskin, Barbara

Unconsciousness Raising: The Pernicious Effects of Unconscious Bias
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Rivlin, Alice M.

Challenges of Modern Capitalism
Full text | Quarter 3, 2002

Rodgers, Francene

The Hard Work Left to Do: Tackling Unfinished Business at Work and at Home
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Rosenthal, Meredith B.

Tobacco Manufacturers are Now Compensating States for Smoking-Related Costs. How Will This Affect the Economy?
with David M. Cutler, Jonathan Gruber, Raymond S. Hartman, and Joseph P. Newhouse
Full text pdf | Quarter 2, 2002

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Salzman, Harold

Too Many Cooks?
with Julia Lane, Philip Moss, and Chris Tilly
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Sass, Steven

Leapfrog and Catch-up
The convergence of regional incomes
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998

How Will We Support Ourselves When We Grow Old?
Social Security?
Full text | Fall 1997

Techno-Babel
Absorbing information technology
Full text | Fall 1996

Across the Dialectic
Employee representation as unions recede
Full text | Summer 1996

Risk at the PBGC
Managing federal pension guarantees
Spring 1996

Crosscurrents
Through the New England labor market
Winter 1996

Passing the Buck
The Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Summer 1995

Endgames
Planning for the End of One's Career
Spring 1995

Just Compensation
Performance-Based Pay for Non-Supervisory Employees
Winter 1995

Who's Going to Pay for College?
Who will bear the heavier burden?
Fall 1994

See Dick Earn. Earn Dick, Earn
More, and more pragmatic education pays off
Summer 1994

What's So Special About Manufacturing?
Factories generate growth and equality
Spring 1994

New Concept of the Corporation
Dynamic enterprise
Winter 1994

Brunelleschi's Bargain
Intellectual property in digital space
Fall 1993

How Much is That Building in the Window?
How the values came and went
Summer 1993

Crisis in Pensions
Cracks in our retirement savings system
Spring 1993

Public Pension Do's and Dont's
The claims for targeted investments fall short
Spring 1992

Explaining the Bust
A rotted base or a toppled tower
Winter 1992

Getting the Banks Into Balance
Implications for borrowers
Fall 1991

Workers at the Gate
The labor market defies conventional supply and demand wisdom
Summer 1991

New Firms on the Block
Spring 1991

Credit Crunch
Winter 1991

Sasser, Alicia

On State Tax Policy
with Robert Tannenwald
Full text | Winter 1997

Schacht, Susan

Art Museums Go to Market
Where they try to serve many masters
with Pamela Larson
Summer 1994

Family Values
Child care dilemmas reflect serious economic stress
Spring 1993

Desperately Seeking Savings
Better health care hinges on learning to get more
Winter 1993

Roxbury Merchants
Doing business in inner-city Boston
Fall 1992

Stuck on Productivity
A new look at a baffling problem
Summer 1992

Experiments in School Choice
Market mechanisms prove tough to implement
Spring 1992

The Trouble with Managed Care
Health insurance at an impasse
Winter 1992

The Cost of Doing Business
New England is pricey. But so are many rival states
Fall 1991

Fiscal Shock
New England wrestles with recession and the new federalism
Summer 1991

Scherer, F.M.

Raising Productivity on the Technological Frontier
Full text | Fall 1996

Schuh, Scott

Untangling the Causes of Recession
with Robert Triest
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

Shaw, Kathryn

Women's Contribution to Productivity: Women Have Been Key in Raising the Nation’s Growth Rate
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Shell, Marc

Money and Art
The issue of representation in commerce and culture
Fall 1992

Simons, Katerina

Should U.S. Investors Invest Overseas?
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000

Stavins, Joanna

Perspective on Payments
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2003

While More People Are Paying Electronically, Many of Us Still Cling to Checks
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001

Has Widespread Use of Credit Cards Contributed to the Increase in Personal Bankruptcy?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2000 / Quarter 1, 2001

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Tannenwald, Robert

Heat, Light, and Taxes in the Granite State
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001

Devolution: How will New England fare?
Full text | Fall 1997

Perspective on State Tax Policy
with Alicia Sasser
Full text | Winter 1997

Tilly, Chris

Too Many Cooks?
with Julia Lane, Philip Moss, and Harold Salzman
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Big City Labor Markets, Inner-City Workers
An employer's eye view
with Philip Moss
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Tootell, Geoffrey M.B.

Issues in Economics: What Is the Cost of Deflation?
with Jeffrey Fuhrer
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Triest, Robert

Should We Be Concerned About Slow Growth in New England's Labor Force?
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000

Untangling the Causes of Recession
with Scott Schuh
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

Twitchell, James B.

A (Mild) Defense of Luxury
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001

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Wasserman, Miriam

Trouble in Coffee Lands
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002

Dirty Money
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002

The Geography of Life's Chances
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001

The Last Hunting Economy
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001

EllisIsland.com?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2000 / Quarter 1, 2001

Mining Data
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000

Eliminating Child Labor
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000

Urban Sprawl
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000

Redefining Main St.
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999

Beating the Clock
So much to do, so little time
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999

Hope on Credit
Microlending comes to the U.S.
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998

Snapshot of the Future
The children of immigrant America
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998

Appreciating the House
Housing as an investment
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998

The Man to Beat
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998

Werkema, Joel

Consumer Confidence
More a reflection than a cause of economic conditions
with Bob Jabaily
Summer 1993

Werkema, Rachel Deyette

A Calculated Risk
Full text | Quarter 3, 2002

Winkler, Anne E.

Does Affirmative Action Work?
with Francine D. Blau
Full text pdf | Quarter 1, 2005

Woolf, Art

The Package Tour
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998

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Yu, Pingkang David

Focus on High-Tech
Full text pdf | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004

Defense Windfall for New England?
with Yolanda Kodrzycki
Full text pdf | Quarter 3, 2003

 
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