Dear NBER Researchers -
I wrote to you a month ago to announce a new NBER post-doctoral program
on long-term fiscal policy. The closing date for applications is next
Wednesday. Since circulating the announcement, which indicated that the
program was limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, I have
learned that the NBER may be able to sponsor fellowship recipients for
J-1 visas under its Research Scholar program. I am therefore writing in
the hope that if you know of candidates who might not have been eligible
under the more restrictive guidelines, you will encourage them to
apply. The announcement is below. Thank you and Happy Holidays.
Jim Poterba
To encourage research on the economics of long-term fiscal policy, the
NBER, with the generous support of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, is
launching a program of post-doctoral fellowships in economics. I hope
that you will share this call for applications with early-career
scholars who might be interested in this opportunity.
The subject matter for fellowship research can 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.
Two fellowships will be awarded for the academic year 2016-2017.Each
fellowship will provide a stipend of $75,000, a reimbursement for health
insurance, and a travel and research allowance. The selection panel
will consist of Alan Auerbach (University of California – Berkeley), N.
Gregory Mankiw (Harvard), Valerie Ramey (University of California – San
Diego), Kent Smetters (University of Pennsylvania), and me.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 2016. Fellows will be expected to work
at the NBER's offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the fellowship
year.
To be eligible for fellowship support, an applicant must have completed
a Ph.D. in Economics. The NBER may be able to sponsor fellowship
recipients for J-1 visas under its research scholar program. Applicants
should submit a c.v. as well as a research proposal consisting of no
more than three pages of text and one page of supplemental tables or
graphs to Ms. Raquel Greene (greener_at_nber.org) by midnight (EST) on
Wednesday, December 16, 2015.Applications from candidates from
under-represented ethnic and racial groups, from candidates with
disabilities, and from candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds are
encouraged.Applicants should also secure a letter of recommendation and
verify that it has been sent to Ms. Greene by the deadline.In fairness
to all applicants, the submission deadline is strictly
enforced.Applications that are not complete, including the letter of
recommendation, on December 16 will not be considered for support.
Thank you for disseminating the news of this post-doctoral fellowship
opportunity. An announcement of this fellowship opportunity is posted at
http://nber.org/callforproposals/PostDoctoralFellowshipProgram_LongTermFiscalPolicy.html
Received on Thu Dec 10 2015 - 17:34:53 EST
