National Bureau of Economic Research

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NBER’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program on the Economics of an Aging Workforce, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is sponsoring four dissertation fellowships for doctoral students in economics. Topics may include any labor market issue that affects older workers, such as the determinant of work and retirement behavior of this group, the role of public policies or workplace attributes in facilitating or discouraging work, age discrimination, or the economic impact of older workers on workplace productivity or broader economic aggregates.

Each fellowship offers a $34,000 stipend for academic year 2019-2020, $3,500 for research support such as travel expenses, and tuition up to $12,000 for the academic year. Fellows will have an opportunity to attend the NBER Summer Institute workshops on Aging and Labor Studies. Renewal for 2020-2021 is possible.

To be eligible for fellowship support, an applicant must be enrolled as a full-time Ph.D. student at a U.S. or Canadian college or university. Fellows will be selected based on the panel’s assessment of their potential to make an important contribution to our understanding of work behavior at older ages.

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