NBER Working Papers

Full-text, online version of the print publication: Working paper series National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with abstracts and/or bibliographic information for earlier papers. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.