Hi!
I'm retiring from NSF at the end of August and I'll be on travel for a
month after that. I'm going to resurface at the beginning of October
working part time for the American Economic Association's Committee on
Government Relations. My AEA e-mail address is dan.newlon_at_aeapubs.org.
After August 27th please send any suggestions directly to Richard Suzman
or John Haaga or you can e-mail them to me at my AEA address but my NSF
address won't work. Please help us find a strong replacement for John
Phillips.
Dan
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From: Jon Gruber [mailto:gruberj_at_economics.mit.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:58 PM
To: hc_at_nber.org; Newlon, Dan
Subject: Administrator position at NIA
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_at_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&pos
ition=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_at_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/Behavioral
AndSocialResearch/
________________________________
--
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_at_mit.edu
web: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj/
Received on Mon Aug 17 2009 - 12:59:54 EDT
