Investigator
Janet Currie, Principal Investigator
The NBER Summer Institute, which takes place in Cambridge, MA over a three week span each July, brings together economists from colleges, universities, governments, and international organizations for interaction including lectures, workshops, and cooperative research. The program is designed to encourage participants to interact with one another, and to include newly minted Ph.Ds. and advanced graduate students. The research presentations span most of the sub-fields of economics. The NBER Summer Institute meetings raise the quality of economic research by enabling scholars to collect comments from expert audiences and to develop new topics for study by interacting with their peers. The meeting also advances cross-field collaboration within economics, by bringing together scholars with related interests who might not otherwise interact.
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, the Bulletin on Health, and the Bulletin on Entrepreneurship — as well as online conference reports, video lectures, and interviews.