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Dear ITI group:
Thanks once again to Marc and Eric for organizing the summer institute: it was great to see so many people there.
There are several decisions to made about future meetings times and places, so I am sending around this e-mail so that you can vote on the choices. Please send me your responses, to rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu<mailto:rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>, by Thursday (August 2) of next week.
1) First, it turns out that it *may* be possible to shift the ITI summer meeting more permanently to the first week of the summer institute, as it was this year, which would then overlap with IFM and also with the International Trade and Macroeconomics (ITM) working group. So, I would like to get an idea of your preferences on this. Please vote for one of the following:
a) Hold the ITI summer meeting in 2013 (and perhaps future years) during the first week of the summer institute;
b) Hold the ITI summer meeting in 2013 (and perhaps future years) during the last week of the summer institute, as we have done in the past;
c) Hold the ITI summer meeting in 2013 during another week of the summer institute (please specify which one).
2) The winter meeting in 2012 will be held on Friday-Saturday morning, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, at SIEPR, Stanford University. Note that Thanksgiving is early this year, on Nov. 22. For 2013, Thanksgiving is later, on Nov. 28, so we would also hold the winter meeting later, on Dec. 6-7. The question is what the preferred location is. Please vote for one of the following:
a) Hold the winter meeting in 2013 at SIEPR, Stanford (if it is available);
b) Hold the winter meeting in 2013 at the San Francisco Fed (by reserving now, it *is* available);
c) Hold the winter meeting in 2013 at some other west-coast location (please specify where).
3) Finally, while I typically do not distribute e-mails about funding, I did receive one listed below that offers significant funding for research on "trade liberalization and wages in low income countries." That sounded like a topic that would be interest to many, so I pass along this announcement. As always, Alterra Milone in the research and grants office at the NBER stands ready to assist you with grant applications, either entirely through that office or in tandem with your own university. Please do not hesitate to contact Alterra for advice.
Sincerely,
Rob Feenstra
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Dear Prof. Feenstra,
At the suggestion of my colleagues Alan Deardorff and Andrei Levchenko, I am writing you in your capacity as director of the NBER trade group.
I am director of a program on "Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries," a joint program of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). This program will give out about 10 million euros in research grants over the five years of the program. We recently released our second call for proposals, as described below.
One area of research that was highlighted in our first call for proposals was research related to trade liberalization and labor markets in low-income countries (or links between trade and labor markets in general, as long as the work has something to do with labor markets in low-income countries). We did not get any submissions for the first round that focused on trade issues. We are continuing to mention this is as an area of interest in the second call.
We're worried that the first call did not get distributed to economists working on trade. Perhaps you could forward this to members of the NBER trade group and/or post it on some relevant web site. We would love to have some applications this round that look at links between trade and low-income country labor markets.
Thanks very much,
Professor, Department of Economics
From: glm-info_at_iza.org [mailto:glm-info_at_iza.org]
Call for Proposals
After a highly competitive round of funding in Phase I, we look forward to receiving many high-quality research proposals again in this second round. GLM | LIC Phase II invites applications for research projects in the following areas:
The deadline for applications is November 28, 2012. Click here <http://glm-lic.iza.org/?page=97> for more information about the call for proposals, the research areas, and the full Phase II Call specifications. A list of projects funded under GLM | LIC Phase I will be published on the program website in August 2012.
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Please forward this announcement to persons or institutions that may be interested in applying for funding or participation in the workshop.
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