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Graduate Student “Boot Camp” on Behavioral Public EconomicsOctober
12-14, 2023 -- Cambridge, MACall for Applications
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the generous
support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will host a graduate student
workshop on Behavioral Public Economics on October 12-14, 2023 in
Cambridge, MA. This workshop is designed to help graduate students in
economics become experts on cutting-edge research and techniques at the
intersection of Behavioral and Public Economics, as well as their
connections to related fields such as Health, Labor, Household Finance,
Development, and Energy Economics. Two recent surveys, one from 2015
<
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151108>and another
from 2018
<
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bstyzauvx2b7jgv/Behavioral%20public%20economics.pdf?dl=0>,
provide overviews of this field.
The workshop will be organized by NBER affiliates Hunt Allcott
<
http://allcott.stanford.edu>and Doug Bernheim
<
https://bernheim.people.stanford.edu/>of Stanford University and Dmitry
Taubinsky <
https://www.dmitrytaubinsky.com/>of the University of
California – Berkeley. The program will include lectures by the
organizers as well Stephanie DeLuca
<
https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/stefanie-a-deluca/>, Manasi Deshpande
<
https://economics.uchicago.edu/directory/manasi-deshpande>, Ben Handel
<
https://www.benjaminhandel.com/>, Joanna Naritomi
<
https://joananaritomi.com/>, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
<
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pereztruglia/>. It will include
opportunities for networking and meeting with other students and
faculty. Twenty-five students will be invited to participate. The NBER
will cover travel and lodging expenses, subject to the NBER’s
reimbursement guidelines, as well as all meals during the workshop.
This year’s program will be similar to the program from 2022
<
https://www.nber.org/conferences/behavioral-public-economics-bootcamp-spring-2022>.
The participants in the inaugural workshop were very enthusiastic about
the experience.
Prospective applicants should assemble the following materials in a
single PDF file:
• A cover letter, limited to two pages, that includes an explanation of
why you are interested in behavioral public economics and a description
of at least one research project that you are thinking about or working on.
• A current c.v.
• A complete graduate school transcript.
Please upload <
https://forms.gle/1bJMjDsqsPrx82Ft9>these materials,
along with complete contact information, the name of the applicant’s
current Ph.D. program and year in that program, and the names and email
addresses of two faculty members who could provide recommendations on
behalf of the applicant, no later than 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on
Thursday, June 29, 2023. Applications that are not submitted by the
deadline will not be considered. Applications from students who are
members of groups that have historically been under-represented in the
economics profession are welcome. Applications will be evaluated by the
organizers, and acceptance decisions will be announced in late July.
Please direct questions about workshop content to one of the three
organizers, and questions about logistics and the application process to
Elisa Pepe (epepe_at_nber.org <mailto:epepe_at_nber.org>). *
Received on Tue May 23 2023 - 07:49:16 EDT
