National Bureau of Economic Research

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NBER’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Behavioral Macroeconomics, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is offering one dissertation fellowship for doctoral students in economics. Topics may 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. Other topics emphasizing aggregate implications of behavioral economics are also acceptable.

The fellowship offers a $36,000 stipend for academic year 2021-2022, $5,000 for research support such as travel expenses, and tuition up to $13,000 for the academic year. The Fellow is invited to attend the NBER Summer Institute workshop on Behavioral Macroeconomics.

To be eligible for fellowship support, an applicant must be enrolled as a full-time PhD student at a US or Canadian college or university. Fellows will be selected based on the panel’s assessment of their potential to make an important contribution to key questions in behavioral macroeconomics.

NBER strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.