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The NBER Board of Directors appointed 54 research associates, all of whom were promoted from faculty research fellow status, at the board’s September 2023 meeting. Research associates must be tenured faculty members at North American colleges or universities; their appointments are recommended to the board by directors of the NBER’s 20 research programs, typically after consultation with a steering committee of leading scholars. The new research associates are affiliated...
Esther George, William M. Lewis, Jr., and Laurence C. Morse were elected as at-large members of the NBER Board of Directors at the board’s meeting on September 11 2023.
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Esther George, William M. Lewis Jr., and Laurence C. Morse were elected members at large of the NBER Board of Directors at the board’s September 11 meeting.  George is the past president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. For nearly 12 years she led the bank's staff of more than 2,000 employees, overseeing supervision of financial institutions and provision of payment and financial services to depository institutions. She played a key...
Peter Blair Henry Elected Chair of NBER Board Directors; Karen Mills Elected Vice Chair
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Peter Blair Henry was elected chair of the NBER’s Board of Directors and Karen Mills was elected vice chair at the board’s September 11 meeting. Henry's research in international macroeconomics overturned conventional wisdom on debt relief, international capital flows, and the role of institutions in economic growth. He is the Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International...
 Jessica Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, and Claudia Olivetti Gender in the Economy CoDirectors
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The NBER has launched a Working Group on Gender in the Economy to provide a venue for research on the role of women in the economies of both developed and developing nations. The Working Group will take a broad approach to analyzing gender-related disparities in economic outcomes, and in studying how limited access to education, labor market opportuities, formal financial services, along with disempowering social norms and gender-biased laws and institutions, can create...
Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
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Pol Antràs and David Zilberman, editors Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains. There is a growing awareness of the importance of interactions within and between these supply chains for understanding the performance of agricultural markets.  Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains presents a collection of research studies that develop conceptual models and empirical...

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