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NBER: Two Issues
To: NBER Health Economics Program Members
From: Mike Grossman
Subject: Two Issues
I am writing to call your attention to two issues. The first involves Summer Institute. In response to a growing concern about overcrowding at the Summer Institute, Jim Poterba has asked Summer Institute organizers to target a modest reduction in total attendance this summer, relative to last summer -- on the order of five percent. Please keep this in mind when you nominate PhD candidates to attend the SI and when you ask me to invite your colleagues who are not affiliated with the NBER to attend the SI. The bar will be higher this summer than in the past, and we may not be able to invite all previous participants.
The second issue concerns new appointments to the Health Economics program, both Faculty Research Fellows and Research Associates. The window for new nominations to the program has just closed, and the HE Program Steering Committee (Henry Saffer, Ted Joyce, and I) face difficult trade-offs in evaluating the nominations. There is a long-standing limit of three new appointments per year for most NBER programs. This constraint binds every year. I know that some current program members have made multiple nominations, and I want to remind everyone that the appointment process is very competitive. Going forward, except in unusual circumstances, I hope that each program member will limit themselves to submitting a single nomination.
Received on Sat Feb 06 2016 - 14:34:04 EST
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