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To: Members of EEE program of NBER
We had a great meeting at the NBER last week, thanks to John List and Charlie Kolstad for organizing, to all the authors and discussants for their presentations, and to all of you for attending. This email provides several important bits of information, so please SAVE THIS EMAIL FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. Also attached is a short set of questions for you to print right now, respond, and mail back to me.
1. Jim Poterba, President of NBER, uses the SI opportunity to sit with each program director to discuss issues related to the program and the progress and participation of each member. We look at a spreadsheet that shows various metrics on "participation" for each person for each of the past three years, including the number of working papers submitted, the number of NBER conferences attended, and the number and status of grant applications through NBER. This information is used to discuss which FRFs could be promoted to Research Associate, for example, or which FRF's or RA's could be encouraged to participate in particular projects or funding opportunities. A member who goes several years with little or no participation could eventually be dropped from the program. Nobody is on that bubble right now; I just point this out to remind ALL of you that the EEE program depends on private provision of a public good. We are all better off when each of you participates in various ways -- filling out the attached survey form, attending meetings, and doing joint research. Any serious research paper can be submitted as an NBER working paper (after being cleaned of policy recommendations). And the NBER can help you apply to the NSF or other funding sources, especially for research that is joint with other NBER members.
2. At the suggestion of Jim Poterba, we on the EEE steering committee want to help provide more information and guidance, especially to junior members, about how and where to apply for research funding. We all have good information on standard sources such as the Economics Program of the NSF, but each of us knows different amounts about other NSF programs or about other foundations or agencies (DOE, EPA, NIH, etc.). See below for an email from Wolfram Schlenker about the DOE, along with an attachment. See also an email below that, from Kerry Smith, also with attachments.
3. The next EEE meeting is joint with the Public Economics Program, April 8-9 at Stanford, California, organized by Larry Goulder (with submission deadline in January). The April 2011 meeting will include an hour devoted to information and discussion of possible funding sources. I have asked Wolfram and Kerry each to prepare some additional information to present at that meeting. If you have other similar information about any such funding sources, please let me know now so that we can organize the information for that hour in April.
4. Please note, the next Summer Institute (SI) will be July 29-30, 2011, a FRIDAY-SATURDAY. The logic of this choice is two-part; first we want to avoid conflict with the Monday-Tuesday meetings of the AEAA-AERE sessions. Second, however, we want closer connection with the NBER-IO meeting. For summer of 2011, the NBER-IO meeting is moving to the week AFTER us (Monday-Tuesday August 1-2). Our meeting on the Friday-Saturday will allow our many members who are joint with IO to stay through the weekend (Friday through Tuesday).
The following year we switch back permanently to Monday-Tuesday (July 23-24, 2012).
Thanks! Don
-----Original Message-----
Dear Don,
It was good seeing you in Cambridge. The call for proposals Max
Auffhammer, Michael Roberts, and I responded to was the following (We
got a forwarded email from another professor, but I don't even recall
who it was. Unfortunately, I have no inside knowledge how many
economists they usually fund):
http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/pdf/DE-PS02-08ER08-18.pdf
In general, the DOE grants are listed here:
http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/
Hope that helps,
Wolfram
-----Original Message-----
Don
good seeing you at NBER --here is RFP for NIH
kerry
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Please find attached a funding opportunity being offered by the National Institutes of Health that is ideal for trans-disciplinary research.
Release/Posted Date: July 21, 2010
Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with participation from the following NIH components: FIC, NCI, NCMHD NHLBI, NIA, NIBIB, NICHD, NLM and OBSSR. This FOA encourages research applications to examine the differential risk factors of populations that lead to or are associated with increased vulnerability to exposures, diseases and other adverse health outcomes related to climate change. Applications may involve either applied research studies that address specific hypotheses about risk factors or population characteristics associated with increased vulnerability, or research projects to develop general models or methods for identifying and characterizing population vulnerability to climate change. The ultimate goal of this research program is to help inform climate change adaptation and public health interventions to reduce current and future vulnerability of various populations to the health effects of climate change. Applications are anticipated to involve a multidisciplinary research team, including experts in health sciences and climatology as well as geography, modeling, statistics, demography, and social and behavioral sciences as appropriate. In addition, partnerships with community-based or advocacy organizations, public health officials, urban planners and others are encouraged.
Budget and Project Period. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 2 years. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 2-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.
From: Kerry Smith [mailto:Kerry.Smith_at_asu.edu]
Here is another one
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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:36 AM
Please find attached the funding opportunity announcement from NOAA for 2011 Climate Program funding. Several of you have begun preparing for this announcement, so here is the pertinent information you will need:
DEADLINE - Full proposals for all competitions must be received and validated by Grants.gov on or before 5 p.m. EDT on September 10, 2010.
REGISTRATION - You do not need to register with NOAA. However, each applicant must also be registered with Grants.gov. This is a one-time application, but can takes 3 - 5 business days. If you are not already registered, please do so as soon as possible at http://www.grants.gov/applicants/get_registered.jspn. I have also attached the Individual User registration guide.
Below are the NOAA Program priorities and the open competitions:
Program Priorities
The CPO grants competitions will also inform the emerging NOAA Climate Service. Therefore, proposals will be reviewed in the context of relevant components of available strategic documents outlining goals and objectives of the proposed NOAA Climate Service. Please refer to the following documents for more information about the proposed NOAA Climate Service: 1) Draft Strategic Plan for a National Climate Service
The 16 competitions are as follows:
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