Two Annual NBER Volumes now available from the MIT Press.

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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4, edited by Alan M. Garber, and Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by James M. Poterba, are now available from the MIT Press. Both volumes present papers delivered at annual NBER conferences in Washington, D.C. The topics are timely and newsworthy, and the papers are written in a style that is accessible to policymakers and the interested public, as well as academic economists.

This volume of Frontiers in Health Policy Research includes papers on the costs and consequences of smoking, the market for long-term care, medical procedures at the end of life, and price indexes for the treatment of depression. Garber, the volume's editor, directs the NBER's Program of Research on Health Care and is a professor of economics at Stanford University.

This volume of Tax Policy and the Economy includes such...