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Summer Institute

The NBER Summer Institute is an annual three-week conference held in Cambridge, MA.

The 49th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, MA from July 12 to July 30, 2026, one week later than in 2025 on account of the FIFA World Cup. The meetings will be held in person with many streamed live on YouTube. All meetings are by invitation only.

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 2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
  • Feldstein Lecture
N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...
 2025 Methods Lecture, Raj Chetty, "Uncovering Causal Mechanisms: Mediation Analysis and Surrogate Indices"
  • Methods Lectures
SlidesBackground materials on mediationImai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs...
2025 International Trade and Macroeconomics, "Panel on The Future of the Global Economy"
  • Panel Discussion
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19633, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20251294...

Summer Institute Schedules

Feldstein Lectures

 2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
  • Feldstein Lecture
N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...
2024, 16th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Cecilia E. Rouse," Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic" cover slide
  • Feldstein Lecture
Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council...
15th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Mario Draghi, "The Next Flight of the Bumblebee: The Path to Common Fiscal Policy in the Eurozone cover slide
  • Feldstein Lecture
Dr. Mario Draghi, who served as President of the European Central Bank and Prime Minister of Italy, presented the 2023...

Methods Lectures

 2025 Methods Lecture, Raj Chetty, "Uncovering Causal Mechanisms: Mediation Analysis and Surrogate Indices"
  • Methods Lectures
SlidesBackground materials on mediationImai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs...
 2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
  • Methods Lectures
Background Materials:backgroundAthey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung...
2023 Methods Lectures, Jesse Shapiro and Liyang (Sophie) Sun, "Linear Panel Event Studies" Primary tabs
  • Methods Lectures
Overview: Linear panel event studies are increasingly used to estimate and plot causal effects of changes in policies...
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