The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College sponsors the annual Dissertation Fellowship Program in the field of retirement income and policy research. The program is funded by the US Social Security Administration to provide opportunities for doctoral candidates from all academic disciplines to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement income issues, with priorities in the areas of Social Security, macroeconomic analyses of Social Security, wealth and retirement income, program interactions, international research, and demographic research.
The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) seeks applications for research projects that deepen our understanding of the mechanisms explaining geographic variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the United States, by using recently released statistics from the Health Inequality Project. In this call, with funding support from the Social Security Administration through the NBER Retirement Research Center, we encourage proposals that leverage the the newly released data to better understand the reasons for the strong relationship between income and life expectancy, its geographic variability, and its implications for interventions and policy.
These fellowships of $20,000 are intended for doctoral candidates who can complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year. Applicants can be citizens of any country, but must be doing a PhD in the US on a topic related to human violence and aggression.
Summer programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide an opportunity to spend a summer working at the NIH side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. Internships cover a minimum of eight weeks.
