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Dear EEE members:
This email has five separate points, so please read through to the end.
1. The Summer Institute is Friday and Saturday this year, July 29-30, 2011. The NBER will be sending out official invitations with more information, but you can now start making plans, and you can see the program at: https://www.nber.org/~confer/2011/SI2011/EEE/EEEprg.html
2. The next spring meeting is now officially planned for Friday and Saturday, March 9-10, 2012 in Cambridge, MA. We will have a joint meeting with NBER's research program in Health Care (HC). I will be co-organizing that meeting with Jon Gruber (MIT, Director of the HC program) and Nolan Miller (U. Illinois, a member of both EEE and HC). Like previous joint meetings, HC will hear Health Care papers Thursday plus Friday morning, followed by three joint papers Friday afternoon and four more EEE papers Saturday morning. Members of both groups will be invited to all presentations. Mark your calendars and plan to come.
3. Those interested in funding may want to see the following website, especially those interested in organizing a set of research papers on a climate-related topic, a conference meeting to discuss those papers, and an NBER book to be published by U. Chicago Press (or, instead, possibly a special issue of a journal): http://www.ef.org/programs.cfm?program=climate
4. See the "NBER Reporter", https://www.nber.org/reporter/2011number1/2011no1.pdf . Besides an interesting article by Matt Kahn, you might want to read about awards to members of the EEE program. Charlie Kolstad and Rob Stavins were elected "Fellows" of the AERE, and Spencer Banzhaf has won an award for the "best paper in the history of economics", for a paper published in Land Economics in 2009. That is very impressive, to have written the very best paper ever in the history of all of economics! (But I'm not sure why that award is given by the "History of Economic Society"). Martin L. Weitzman won the FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize for the "Most Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Economics in Last Twenty Years". Doug Arnold of EEE has won a five-year NSF award from the CAREER Program, an NSF-wide activity that supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education ...".
5. Actually, I mention those awards to point out that you too could apply for NSF awards through the NBER. We would particularly encourage other ASSISTANT PROFESSORS in EEE to apply for an NSF CAREER award. These are five-year awards with a July 27 deadline, where the application form asks for a "department head nomination." As the director of your NBER program, *I* can write the "department head letter." It can be an advantage to have a recommendation letter that comes from a senior scholar in the candidate's field of specialization. The returns to submitting these applications are quite high, both for the researchers and for the NBER.
Thanks, Don
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