Dear NBER Researchers -
As a result of a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
the NBER will be able to provide two dissertation support grants for the
next academic year (2015-16) for Ph.D. students in economics whose
research focuses on "The Economics of High Skill Immigration." This
topic area encompasses research on, but is not limited to, issues such
as the role of high skill immigration in the post-secondary education
system, the impact of such immigration on labor market outcomes, and the
impact of immigrants on innovation in science, engineering, and other
fields. Further details are provided in the attached fellowship
announcement, and on the NBER home page at http://nber.org/jobs/ .
Each dissertation grant will provide a stipend of $25,000, as well as up
to $12,000 in tuition support. To be eligible for fellowship support,
a student must be working toward a Ph.D. at a North American university
during the 2015-16 academic year. I hope that you will forward this
message to students who might be interested in applying for fellowship
support. Please note that a nomination process requires a letter of
recommendation, and that the closing date for fellowship applications is
*Wednesday, December 17, 2014.* I am writing early in the academic year
so that students who may be interested in applying for support will have
time to plan their applications, and so that we can announce decisions
before students need to make commitments for teaching or other support
in the next academic year. Please note that student applications as
well as short nominating letters from their advisers must be received by
this data. We will not be able to consider applications that are not
complete by that date.
Fellowship applications, as well as questions about the fellowship
program, may be sent to Ms. Raquel Greene at greener_at_nber.org. Thank
you for helping to call attention to this important program of research
support. All best wishes.
Jim Poterba
Received on Wed Oct 08 2014 - 10:15:02 EDT
