Summarizing Publications in Medical Journals in the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health

From: James Poterba <poterba_at_nber.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:03:01 -0400

Dear Researchers in the Aging, Health Care, and Health Economics Programs:

     Many NBER-affiliated researchers publish some of their research
findings in medical journals that preclude pre-publication
distribution. This makes it impossible to include these papers in the
NBER working paper series. To help in disseminating these studies to
researchers who may not regularly follow medical journals, but who are
interested in the results, beginning with its next issue, the NBER
Bulletin on Aging and Health will include a list recent papers that NBER
researchers have published in medical journals, along with short project
summaries. This will also facilitate bringing the work economists
publish in these outlets to the attention of potential research
supporters. We will try this on an experimental basis for several
issues, and then evaluate whether readers find this useful. This new
initiative, which will begin with the Fall 2016 issue, will coincide
with our shift to primarily electronic distribution of the Bulletin.
All members of the Aging, Health Care, and Health Economics program, as
well as our other subscribers, will receive the electronic Bulletin.

     To help with the launch of this new "literature review" section, I
am writing to ask for your help. If you have published any papers in
medical journals during 2016, and would like to include them in the
upcoming Bulletin, please send information about your paper, including
publication details and an abstract or short summary, to Morgan Foy in
the NBER Communications Department (foym_at_nber.org
<mailto:foym_at_nber.org>) by Thursday, September 8. In the future, when
you publish a paper in one of these outlets, please alert Morgan. He
will also circulate a call for information before each issue of the
Bulletin.

     I hope that this initiative will prove useful to the NBER research
community and to the many other readers of the Bulletin on Aging and
Health. I appreciate your support, and would welcome your feedback and
suggestions. All best wishes.

Jim Poterba
Received on Mon Aug 29 2016 - 10:24:08 EDT