Can I make the simplifying assumption that family members will only have
NSF grants that we care about through a small number of NSF
"organizations" or "directorates"?
mysql> select nsfdirectorate,count(*) from grants_nsf where organization
like 'National Bureau%' group by nsfdirectorate;
+----------------+----------+
| nsfdirectorate | count(*) |
+----------------+----------+
| MPS | 1 |
| SBE | 167 |
+----------------+----------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The advantage of filtering like this is we eliminate at one stroke the
large number of false positives - people with similar names as our
family members working at a different institution in an entirely
different field.
However, the danger is that we miss non-NBER-administered grants that
they actually have. The question is, do we care?
Back in 1996 or so it so happens that I spent a year working as
part-time IT support for the Brain & Behavior Initiative, a joint thing
cutting across departments at Harvard. Michael Jensen, our family
member, was one of the lead faculty. So it is entirely possible that
Michael Jensen has, or had, an NSF grant having to do with Brain &
Behavior, not economics, through a different NSF directorate. The
question is, is that a grant that we care a lot about seeing in the
program review as a non-NBER-administered grant?
Received on Fri Jun 22 2012 - 09:46:27 EDT
