Articles by Author
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.
Border Security in the Age of Globalization: How Can We Protect Ourselves without Losing the Benefits of Openness?
Full text| Quarter 3, 2003
Autor, David H.
Upstairs, Downstairs
with Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002
Manufacturers Should Be Liable When Computer Bugs Leave Consumers in the Lurch
Full text
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
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 1994A Well-Trodden Wilderness
The trees aren't what they used to be
Spring 1994Bends 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 textAre Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal? Looking at New Evidence on Family Income Mobility
with Jane Katz
Full textHow Much do Expansions Reduce the Black-White Unemployment Gap?
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000Chasing 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, 2000Are We Saving and Investing Too Little?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998
Brunetta, Leslie
↑ topEconomic Forecasting
How theories were put to practical business use
Fall 1993New England's Take on Biotech
The biotech biz is no clone of the minicomputer
Summer 1992
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 textWhere Does the Time Go? The Division of Household Labor
Full textA Psychological Effect of Stereotypes
Full textObjects of Desire
Full text | Quarter 4, 2003/Quarter 1, 2004Accidents Will Happen
Full text | Quarter 3, 2003Like Father, Like Son
Full text | Quarter 2, 2003Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Bad
Full text | Quarter 1, 2003Doing Well by Doing Time?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2002Chances Aren't
Full text | Quarter 3, 2002Preserving Our Past
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002Virtual University
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002Diagnosis: Shortage
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001
Cooper, Richard N.
Competition & Opportunity
with Jane Little
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001
Cutler, David M.
↑ topTobacco 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
Slouching Toward Utopia
What is the history of the 20th century?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998The Misfortunes of Prosperity
Full text | Winter 1997
A New England Approach to Preserving Open Space
Full text
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
An Economist Reports from Baghdad
Full text | Quarter 3, 2003
Fortune, Peter
Is Margin Lending Marginal?
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001Motoring Toward a Better Future
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000Mutual Fund Myths
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998Against the Gods
Full text | Spring 1997Beam Me Up, Scotty. My Portfolio's in Warp Drive
Full text | Summer 1996
Fuhrer, Jeff
↑ topIssues in Economics: What Is the Cost of Deflation?
with Geoffrey M.B. Tootell
Full textIn a Booming Economy, Unemployment Has Remained Surprisingly High
with Hoyt Bleakley and Ann Ferris
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999Teaching Economics
Full text | Summer 1996
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 textThe 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
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
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
Hertz, Rosanna
↑ topWork and Leadership: Tests of Manhood
Full text
Choices and Changes: Critical Moments in Careers and Families
Full text
Can Pro Sports Survive Prosperity?
Full text | Quarter 3, 1999Consumer Confidence
More a reflection than a cause of economic conditions
with Joel Werkema
Summer 1993
Jordan, John
↑ topBanking in the Age of Information Technology
with Jane Katz
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999
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 textRunning in Cycles
Full text| Quarter 2/Quarter 3, 2004
Issues in Economics
Full textGet Me Headquarters!
Full text | Quarter 4, 2002Are Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal?
Looking at New Evidence on Family Income Mobility
with Katharine Bradbury
Full textWhat a Waste
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002'Til Death Do U$ Part
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001Business to Business on the Internet
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000Making the Numbers
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000Banking 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, 1999It's Not Quite Business As Usual
New England's rural firms
Full text | Quarter 3, 1998Working 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 textRetaining College Graduates in the Workforce: How Well is New England Doing?
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001New 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, 1998Cities and Communications Technology
Full text | Spring 1997
Kropf, Marcia Brumit
↑ topInspiring Girls to Be Strong, Smart, and Bold: Girls’ Organizations Change with the Times
Girls' organizations change with the times
Full text
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
Lesher, Molly
Seeds of Change
Full text
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
Little, Jane
Perspective: Outsourcing Jobs Overseas: A Cause for Concern?
Full textCompetition & Opportunity
with Richard N. Cooper
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001A World of Difficult Currency Choices
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000E Pluribus EMU?
How will Europe cope with a single currency?
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998The IMF Under Fire
It must be doing something right
Full text | Quarter 2, 1998Anatomy of a Currency Crisis
What we can learn from Southeast Asia
Full text | Fall 1997NAFTA: Fast Forward?
Full text | Summer 1997Righting the Scales
Reform of health care has already begun
with Norman Boucher
Fall 1994Necessity 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.
↑ topComments on "Spinning the Top"
Full text
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, 2001Childcare on Board
The growth of work-site daycare
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000Making Money Keeps Getting Easier
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000The Murder Mystery
Explaining the recent drop in homicide
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000The Good, the Bad, and the Legally Permissible
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999
Miaoulis, Ioannis
Encouraging Women in Engineering, Math, and Science
Full text
Molina, V. Sue
Changing the Face of Consulting: The Women's Initiative at Deloitte & Touche
Full text
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, 2004Big City Labor Markets, Inner-City Workers
An employer's eye view
with Chris Tilly
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999
Murnane, Richard J.
↑ topUpstairs, Downstairs
with David H. Autor and Frank Levy
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002
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
Bad People Do Not Have a Monopoly on Bad Deeds:
Taking an Organizational Approach to Ethics
Full text
Peters, Helen Frame
Improving Opportunities for Women: Five Suggestions for Encouraging Change
Full text
Pinard, Mary
Issues in Economics
Full text
Unconsciousness Raising: The Pernicious Effects of Unconscious Bias
Full text
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
Rosenthal, Meredith B.
↑ topTobacco 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
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 1994Family Values
Child care dilemmas reflect serious economic stress
Spring 1993Desperately Seeking Savings
Better health care hinges on learning to get more
Winter 1993Roxbury Merchants
Doing business in inner-city Boston
Fall 1992Stuck on Productivity
A new look at a baffling problem
Summer 1992Experiments in School Choice
Market mechanisms prove tough to implement
Spring 1992The Trouble with Managed Care
Health insurance at an impasse
Winter 1992The Cost of Doing Business
New England is pricey. But so are many rival states
Fall 1991Fiscal 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
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
↑ topPerspective on Payments
Full textWhile More People Are Paying Electronically, Many of Us Still Cling to Checks
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001Has Widespread Use of Credit Cards Contributed to the Increase in Personal Bankruptcy?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2000 / Quarter 1, 2001
Heat, Light, and Taxes in the Granite State
Full text | Quarter 3, 2001Devolution: How will New England fare?
Full text | Fall 1997Perspective 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, 2004Big City Labor Markets, Inner-City Workers
An employer's eye view
with Philip Moss
Full text | Quarter 4, 1999
Issues in Economics: What Is the Cost of Deflation?
with Jeffrey Fuhrer
Full text
Triest, Robert
Should We Be Concerned About Slow Growth in New England's Labor Force?
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000Untangling the Causes of Recession
with Scott Schuh
Full text | Quarter 4, 1998
Twitchell, James B.
↑ topA (Mild) Defense of Luxury
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001
Trouble in Coffee Lands
Full text | Quarter 2, 2002Dirty Money
Full text | Quarter 1, 2002The Geography of Life's Chances
Full text | Quarter 4, 2001The Last Hunting Economy
Full text | Quarter 2, 2001EllisIsland.com?
Full text | Quarter 4, 2000 / Quarter 1, 2001Mining Data
Full text | Quarter 3, 2000Eliminating Child Labor
Full text | Quarter 2, 2000Urban Sprawl
Full text | Quarter 1, 2000Redefining 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, 1998The 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
Woolf, Art
↑ topThe Package Tour
Full text | Quarter 1, 1998
Focus on High-Tech
Full textDefense Windfall for New England?
with Yolanda Kodrzycki
Full text
