National Bureau of Economic Research Publications

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets Leah Platt Boustan

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects...

Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the United States, Volume 1 Raymond William Goldsmith, Robert E. Lipsey, and M. Mendelson

Volume I of this study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach.

Originally published in 1963.

Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the United States, Volume 2 Raymond William Goldsmith, Robert E. Lipsey, and M. Mendelson

Volume II contains basic data underlying the study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach.

Originally published in 1963.

Role of Direct and Indirect Taxes in the Federal Reserve System: A Conference Report of the NBER and the Brookings Institution National Bureau of Economic Research

This conference volume deals with the question of what the economic impact of a shift in federal taxation toward greater use of indirect taxes would be with respect to the rate of saving and investment, personal effort, the balance of...

An Appraisal of the 1950 Census Income Data, Volume 23: Studies in Income and Wealth National Bureau of Economic Research

This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources—field surveys, and...

Business and Professional Income Under the Personal Income Tax Charles Harry Kahn

The author is concerned here with the tax treatment of individuals' income from the sole proprietorships and partnerships in manufacturing, finance, trade, agriculture, and professional practice. Attention is paid to the changing...

Freight Transportation in the Soviet Union Ernest William Williams

A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the Soviet Union and in the United States.

Originally published in 1962.

Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education Charles T. Clotfelter

Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the...

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz

“Magisterial. . . . The direct and indirect influence of the Monetary History would be difficult to overstate.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve

From Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and his...