[message sent on behalf of Anne Case and David Cutler]
Dear NBER Colleagues:
We co-direct a grant for the NBER Center for Aging and Health Research, funded by the National Institute on Aging. Among its activities, the Center funds up to four pilot studies annually. Projects must relate to health outcomes at older ages, and typically fit within one of the high-priority network themes of the Center:
• The Economics of COVID-19
• Health Trends and Inequalities
• Data Analytics, Information Technology and Health Care Decision-Making
• The Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
• The Dynamics of the Health Care Ecosystem
• Medical Innovation and the Value of Health Care
• Behavior Change in Health
The ideal pilot projects are innovative, bold, timely, and important to public health. A working paper of some form is expected by the end of the funding period, and a more comprehensive follow-up grant application to NIA is a strongly encouraged additional outcome of the pilot exploration.
Projects generally provide one or two months of investigator salary, research assistance, or other expenses such as experimental interventions or data acquisitions. We consider projects with direct costs up to $50,000.
We are soliciting ideas for pilot projects for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2021-June 2022), and we welcome your submissions. If you have a project idea, please upload a title and a 1-2 page summary by Tuesday, February 23. Submissions may be uploaded at:
https://conference.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfprop?id=HRPPs21
You can find additional information on the Center, including summaries of current and recent pilot projects, on the NBER Center website <
https://www.nber.org/programs-projects/projects-and-centers/center-aging-and-health-research?page=1&perPage=50>. Please contact Dick Woodbury (dickwoodbury1_at_gmail.com) with any questions.
We look forward to reading your project ideas.
Sincerely,
Anne Case and David Cutler
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Janet Stein
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National Bureau of Economic Research
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Received on Tue Jan 26 2021 - 14:14:17 EST
