Six Summers Fellowships Awarded

The NBER awarded six Summers fellowships to enable economic statisticians from government agencies and international organizations to attend the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW) meeting on July 15-16, 2024, in Cambridge, MA. The fellows participated in the meeting and had an opportunity to interact with leading scholars and practitioners in the field of economic measurement. Founded in 1936 by Simon Kuznets, the CRIW provides a forum for academics, government representatives, and business economists to present and discuss the latest research in this area.

The fellowship program honors Robert Summers, a distinguished CRIW member and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who made substantial contributions to the study of international price and output comparisons. Summers, together with Alan Heston and Irving Kravis, developed the Penn World Table (PWT), a comprehensive dataset that provides consistent national income and economic data across a wide range of countries and years. Today, the PWT includes information from 190 countries and serves as a critical resource for cross-country economic analysis.

The 2024 fellowship recipients are: Flavio Calvino from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Mahsa Gholizadeh from the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis; Josh Martin from the Bank of England; Doron Sayag of Bar-Ilan University, previously the director of price measurement at the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics; Jakob Schneebacher from the UK Competition and Markets Authority; and Klaas de Vries from Statistics Netherlands. The fellows work on a range of issues, including international comparisons and price measurement.

The fellowship program, which promotes research on economic measurement and strengthens ties between the academics and practitioners, is ongoing. A call for applications for 2025 Summers fellows is posted on the NBER website.