Dear NBER Researchers -
The NBER, with the generous support of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation,
is pleased to offer up to two one-year post-doctoral fellowships that
will enable outstanding early-career economists to visit our Cambridge
office for intensive research on economic aspects of long-term fiscal
policy. I hope that you will share this call for applications with
early-career scholars who might be interested in this opportunity.
The subject matter may be any aspect of long-term fiscal policy,
including but not limited to:
* Analysis of how the level of government debt affects economic growth
and of the feedback loops between the debt-to-GDP ratio and the growth
rate of spending and taxes.
* Investigation of the role of entitlement, spending, and tax reform in
addressing long-run structural deficits in the U.S or other nations.
* Exploration of the links between tax policy and economic growth, with
particular emphasis on the way different tax instruments impact an
economy’s long-term growth.
* Research on the fiscal consequences of an aging population, including
the effect of changing age mix on the level and composition of
government spending, on the domestic demand for government debt, and on
labor markets.
* Study of fiscal institutions and fiscal rules to learn whether
certain institutional structures, such as balanced-budget rules, are
associated with lower structural deficits.
* Consideration of the interplay between federal and state fiscal
policy in the United States and the role of intergovernmental transfers
of revenue authority and program responsibility in affecting measured
federal or state fiscal positions.
Up to two fellowships will be awarded for academic year 2017-2018. Each
fellowship provides a stipend of $75,000, a reimbursement for health
insurance, a travel and research allowance, and an office at the NBER.
Fellows will be expected to spend the academic year at the NBER, and to
make fellowship-related research their primary activity during the
year. By June 15, 2018, fellows must deliver at least one research
paper on long-term fiscal policy that is the result of research during
the fellowship year.
The selection committee will consist of Alan Auerbach (University of
California – Berkeley), N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard), Valerie Ramey
(University of California – San Diego), and Kent Smetters (University of
Pennsylvania). I will serve as chair. Fellows will be selected based
on the panel’s assessment of their potential to make an important
contribution to our understanding of long-term fiscal policy and
announced in February 2017.
Applicants should be recent or prospective graduates who anticipate
completing their Ph.D. in Economics by June, 2017. NBER encourages
applications from candidates from under-represented racial and ethnic
groups, candidates with disabilities and/or individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds. The NBER may be able to sponsor the
fellowship recipients for a J-1 visa under its research scholars program.
Applicants should submit a c.v. as well as a research proposal
consisting of no more than three pages of text and two pages of
supplemental tables or graphs by midnight (EST) on December 1, 2016. To
apply, potential fellows should visit
http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=appLFPf16
Thank you for disseminating news of this fellowship opportunity. All
best wishes.
Jim Poterba
Received on Tue Oct 25 2016 - 17:08:55 EDT
