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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N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...

SlidesBackground materials on mediationImai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs...

Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19633, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20251294...
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Feldstein Lectures

N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...

Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council...

Dr. Mario Draghi, who served as President of the European Central Bank and Prime Minister of Italy, presented the 2023...
Methods Lectures

SlidesBackground materials on mediationImai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs...

Background Materials:backgroundAthey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung...

Overview: Linear panel event studies are increasingly used to estimate and plot causal effects of changes in policies...
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