Dear HC Program
Members -
The NIA suffered a tremendous loss recently when John Phillips decided
to leave. John did a terrific job as an Administrator in charge of
many of the grants submitted by NBER personnel.
The NIA is looking for a replacement and Dan
Newlon from the NSF has agreed to help lead the search. I attach below
the job description. If you or anyone you know might be a good fit for
the position, please contact Dan directly at dnewlon@nsf.gov
thanks
Jon Gruber
The text of the announcement
is below, and it can be seen at this URL:
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/current/joe_full_adv.php?adnum=20090602401&position=3788&employer=3020&issue=200906
(One
thing it doesn’t mention
that may be relevant to many applicants is the possibility of time to
do one’s
own research, perhaps up to 20%
time, which is
the agreement John Phillips had)
Department
of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
Health Scientist Administrator - Economist
The Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) sponsors
extramural and
collaborative research and research training on aging at the
individual,
institutional and societal levels. A large fraction of BSR's research
budget is
devoted to studying the implications for individuals, labor markets,
government
social insurance programs (e.g., Social Security and Medicare),
employer-provided retirement health insurance programs, and the overall
economy, of population aging and of the determinants of work and
retirement
decisions in later life. NIA/BSR is one of the largest funders of
economics
research in the U.S. - $39 million in Fiscal Year 2008 - supporting
domestic
and international research on retirement, health, and data
infrastructure
development (most notably, the Health and Retirement Study).
BSR is recruiting for a Health Scientist Administrator (HSA) to develop
and
manage this large, policy relevant portfolio of research grants,
training
grants, career awards, fellowships, cooperative agreements, and
contracts.
Recent BSR-sponsored funding initiatives include:
--Retirement Economics, incl. labor force participation and the
determinants of
the retirement decision; comprehensive models of retirement integrating
health
and disability, wealth, and family structure; savings behavior;
intergenerational transfers; cross-country comparisons of public and
private
transfers; and neuroeconomics, incl. the role of anticipatory affect on
financial
decision making over the lifespan.
--Behavioral Economics, incl. approaches (such as collaborations
between the
fields of psychology and economics) to increase retirement savings and
financial literacy.
--Health Economics, incl. the economic impact of disease and the value
of good
health; satellite national health accounts to improve the measurement
of
medical spending and to explicitly measure health status; health care
cost
growth; the relationship between insurance (i.e., Medicare, Medigap,
Advantage,
Medicare Part D) coverage and health/health expenditures; the impact of
benefit
design on expenditures, adherence and health outcomes; and expenditure
forecasting, health disparities and regional variation in expenditures
and
health.
--Data Infrastructure Development, incl. harmonization of longitudinal
cross-national surveys of aging with the US Health and Retirement Study.
--Long-term Care, incl. the long-term care insurance market and the
explanations for the size of the market for these products (Medicaid
crowd-out,
pricing, plan coverage, etc.).
--Socioeconomic Status and Health, incl. the effect of early life
health and
socioeconomic status on outcomes later in life; and the relationship
between
income, consumption, education, race and health.
--Macroeconomic-Demographic Aspects of Population Aging, incl. the
impact of
aging on aggregate saving and capital formation, the effect of baby
boomer
retirements on asset markets, the role of international capital flows,
the
impact of the aging workforce, and even a declining workforce, on
productivity
and economic growth.
NIA is recruiting at both the junior and senior levels. Candidates
should have
a PhD and research training in labor economics, health economics,
econometrics,
macroeconomics, public finance, behavioral economics, and/or economic
demography. Candidates should also have very strong writing and
communication
skills, and an entrepreneurial personality. The ads (at the junior and
senior
levels) will be posted in the upcoming weeks and you will be able to
access
them at http://www.nia.nih.gov/AboutNIA/Jobs.htm
once they post.
For qualifications required, evaluation criteria, and application
instructions,
please contact Ms. Lauren Carroll Tedesco at 301-594-2288. For
specifics about
the position, please contact Dr. John Haaga, BSR Deputy Director, at
301-496-3131 or HaagaJ@mail.nih.gov
.
DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers
Application Instructions:
The
position vacancy will be posted in a few weeks and you can access it at
http://www.nia.nih.gov/aboutNIA/jobs.htm
once it is posted.
Informational
URL: http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ExtramuralPrograms/BehavioralAndSocialResearch/
--
Jonathan Gruber
Professor of Economics
MIT Department of Economics
50 Memorial Drive, E52-355
Cambridge, MA 02142
phone: 617-253-8892
fax: 617-253-1330
e-mail: gruberj@mit.edu
web: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj/
Received on Thu Aug 13 2009 - 20:58:28 EDT
