Dear NBER Health Care FRFs and RAs,
You should have received the e-mail copy-pasted
below from Jim Poterba (sent via Denis Healy)
notifying you that the time window for nominating
new individuals for NBER membership is now
open. As we did last year, we wanted to write to
clarify a few points for the group.
First: nominations will be reviewed by an
advisory committee with rotating membership
(currently Amitabh Chandra, Ben Handel, and Neale
Mahoney together with the two of us).
Second: we want to try to avoid individuals
feeling a need to be "strategic" about the
nominating process. We are aiming to appoint
individuals who are outstanding health
economists, and we will use people's CVs as the
primary way of assessing this. There is no need
to write detailed nomination statements, nor is
it advantageous to be nominated by more than one
person. Our review will focus on the CVs of
nominated candidates without regard to nomination
statements, who nominated a given individual, or
how many nominations a given individual
received. Put differently, the goal of the
nomination process is just to get a set of
names/CVs in front of the committee for consideration.
Third: in terms of who can be nominated, there is
no rule other than that they must have a tenure
track position at a North American university
(which is an NBER requirement). The selection
process is very competitive, given that in a
typical year the program is only able to add
about three new affiliates. As articulated in
Jim's e-mail, the NBER is also looking to ensure
diversity in each of its programs along many
dimensions, so please keep that in mind as you compile your nominations.
Nominations can be submitted here:
http://back.nber.org/nominate//backend/form?id=N_F22
All best wishes, Amy and Heidi
Received on Wed Jan 19 2022 - 08:58:02 EST
