Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Behavioral Macroeconomics, 2019-2022

This project supports NBER’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Behavioral Macroeconomics, which provides dissertation fellowships for doctoral students in economics who are studying topics that include i) aggregate implications of limited capacity of household, firms, and policymakers to collect and process information; ii) decision making when agents have potentially mis-specified models or incomplete information sets; iii) formation of expectations; iv) optimal policy design (fiscal policy, monetary policy, communication policy); and v) interaction of economic agents with different levels of knowledge or sophistication. Fellowship recipients may also study other topics emphasizing aggregate implications of behavioral economics. Each fellowship will offer an academic year stipend, a research allowance, and tuition support.