To Members of NBER’s programs on Aging, Health Care, Children, and
Public Economics
As you may know, last year the Social Security Administration awarded
funding for NBER’s Retirement and Disability Research Center. We are
now preparing to submit project proposals for next year.
As a preliminary step, we are seeking ideas for one-year projects that
can be proposed for the next period (October 1, 2019-September 15,
2020). The proposed project needs to be policy relevant and well
thought out, but not hugely elaborate. Funds are awarded one year at a
time with a paper due in September, but a longer-term project can be
made up of a sequence of one-year proposals. It is best not to promise
more than you can reasonably deliver in the course of a one-year
project, as SSA compares funded proposals with final papers to ensure
all study aims were met. These project proposals are much less
time-consuming than an NSF or NIH proposal.
To help make the strongest possible case for your proposal, please refer
to the attached research priorities from SSA and consider ways that one
or more Focal Areas might be addressed by your research. SSA will also
consider great ideas that are not on the list, but a strong proposal
will still spell out clearly its relevance to SSA policy.
At this point, we are asking for a title, brief project abstract (1-2
paragraphs), and the Focal and/or Program areas you propose to address.
Please submit this information by March 15th by entering the title and
lead authors, and then pasting the abstract, including focal/program
areas and additional authors, at the link here:
http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=RDRCs19.
We will let you know by March 29th if we are able to include your
project. In that case we will ask for a 5-page proposal (double-spaced)
by April 12th as well as information for your budget.
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss possible topic
ideas, please let us know.
Nicole Maestas, RDRC Director
Jeff Brown and Courtney Coile, Associate Directors
James Choi, Scientific Advisor
{Sent by Janet Stein}
Janet Stein
Program Administrator
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 588-0366
fax: (617) 868-2742
http://www.nber.org/sendthisfile/jbstein
Received on Thu Mar 14 2019 - 10:14:02 EDT
