To promote research on wealth and income inequality, including on the factors that contribute to disparities, the effect of public policies on disparities, and the persistence of disparities across generations, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is accepting applications for two post-doctoral fellowships that will support early-career economists during the 2025-26 academic year. Fellows will be able to conduct intensive research in the economics of wealth and income inequality while visiting the NBER’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Applications from researchers who are just completing their PhDs, as well as from junior faculty members who may be able to combine this fellowship with an early career leave, are welcome.
The fellowship provides a stipend of $95,000, reimbursement for health insurance, office space, IT support, and a research fund for conference travel and research expenses. Fellows will be expected to advance their self-directed research agenda, while also participating in research meetings such as the Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Disparities or the Inequality and Macroeconomics meeting at the NBER Summer Institute.
Applicants must have completed their PhD in Economics by June, 2025. The NBER welcomes applications from women, members of groups that have been under-represented in the economics profession, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. The NBER may be able to sponsor fellowship recipients for a J-1 visa under its research scholars program.
Fellows will be selected on the quality of their research plan and on their research experience and promise. Fellowships will be awarded conditional on funding with notifications in February 2025.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a recommendation letter (preferably from a dissertation supervisor), and a research proposal of no more than five pages of text and two pages of supplemental tables and graphs, outlining a research project that could be conducted during the fellowship year, by 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, December 5, 2024.
Apply through the American Economic Association website.