On 6/22/2012 10:17 AM, Wayne Gray wrote:
> It seems reasonable to me to restrict the search to the SBE directorate - the danger of adding lots of false positives from including other directorates seems to outweigh the negatives of missing one or two non-Bureau grants in our listing.
>
Well, I found a counterexample.
Andrew W. Lo, RA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
has an NSF grant through the ENG (Engineering Directorate) called "A new
paradigm for understanding and controlling systemic risks in financial
markets".
It is administered through MIT.
- Alex
> Wayne
> ________________________________________
> From: Alex Aminoff, NBER [aminoff_at_nber.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 9:47 AM
> To: grantadmins_at_nber.org
> Subject: Tracking NSF grants by family members not in economics
>
> 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 - 11:12:06 EDT
