Lectures

What Are NBER Lectures?

Among featured events at the NBER Summer Institute are the Martin Feldstein Lecture, which examines a current issue involving economic policy, and the Methods Lectures, which describe an emerging set of tools and techniques in econometrics. In addition, some keynote addresses and panel discussions at NBER conferences are preserved in lecture format. Affiliated researchers also record research spotlights describing their findings. 

Featured Lectures

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The 2021 Martin Feldstein Lecture: The Taxation of Business Income in the Global Economy
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Alan J. Auerbach, the Robert D. Birch Professor of Economics and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and...
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Summer Institute 2021 Methods Lectures: Causal Inference Using Synthetic Controls and Regression Discontinuity Designs
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The credible estimation of causal effects is a central task of applied econometrics. Two tools for this purpose that...
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NBER and the Evolution of Economic Research, 1920-2020
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In observance of the 100th birthday of the National Bureau of Economic Research, present-day researchers wrote papers...

More from NBER

In addition to working papers, the NBER disseminates affiliates’ latest findings through a range of free periodicals — the NBER Reporter, the NBER Digest, the Bulletin on Retirement and Disability, and the Bulletin on Health — as well as online conference reports, video lectures, and interviews.

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The Economics of Digitization
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The NBER Economics of Digitization Project, established in 2010 with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides a forum for disseminating research...
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The 2020 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Journey Across a Century of Women
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Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a past president of the American...
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Summer Institute 2020 Methods Lectures: Differential Privacy for Economists
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The extent to which individual responses to household surveys are protected from discovery by outside parties depends...