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...number of Feldstein's colleagues point to his work at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) as evidence that he would be successful at running a large educational institution like Harvard. Feldstein has been president of the Cambridge-based NBER since...
Their findings fly in the face of most of the current arguments against unions and against the attitudes of industry management. In the course of their research, which took nearly eight years, Freeman and Medoff, both of whom are affiliated with the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), ported over countless government records on industry and personal histories of union members. Finally, they came up with the overwhelming verdict that unions are worth rescuing...
...book has moved the discussion about unions beyond where it's been for years, beyond anecdotes and on to facts," says Bernard E. Ichniowski '77, deputy director of NBER's labor studies program. "No longer will it be possible to use off-the-cuff anecdotes in the face of scientific facts," he adds...
That the book, which was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to NBER and published by Basic Books, took eight years to produce colleagues call a testimony to the duo's thoroughness as researchers. "The book was four years overdue but we wanted to be careful and cautious," says Freeman, adding. "Research isn't a bunch of quickies...
Coddington cited studies conducted by Thurow and Martin S. Feldstein, professor of Economics at Harvard and director of the NBER, that predict that the government could eventually eliminate those taxes on profits and thereby end any incentive for corporations to contribute to universities...