NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program on Energy Economics

To encourage research on energy economics, the NBER, with the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is sponsoring three dissertation fellowships for doctoral students in economics. Each fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, with renewal for a second year conditional upon satisfactory research progress. Fellowships will be awarded based on the recommendations of a selection panel, chaired by Meredith Fowlie (University of California – Berkeley) and Ryan Kellogg (University of Chicago). The panel will assess each applicant‘s potential to make an important contribution to important questions in energy economics.

Fellowship recipients are expected to pursue academic research that is primarily related to energy economics, with an emphasis on issues that are relevant to energy markets and policy in the United States. Areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to, energy market design, innovation and productivity in energy markets, the economics of the fracking boom, energy transmission and distribution, infrastructure investment, the effects of environmental and other regulatory policies on both the supply of and demand for energy, energy efficiency, and the economics of renewable energy. Students working in a range of fields including industrial economics, international trade, public economics, and innovation economics are encouraged to apply.