Funder: National Bureau of Economic Research
Due Dates: December 7, 2026, at 5 p.m. EST (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $105,000 stipend for one year, plus health insurance reimbursement and a travel and research allowance
Summary: Supports early-career economists conducting intensive research on any aspect of long-term fiscal policy at NBER.
Key Information: Fellows must spend the year at NBER in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with fellowship activities as their primary responsibility.
Description
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with support from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, offers a one-year post-doctoral fellowship for early-career economists studying the economic aspects of long-term fiscal policy. The program supports researchers completing their PhDs and junior faculty able to combine the fellowship with early-career leave.
Research may address any aspect of long-term fiscal policy, including government debt and growth, feedback between debt-to-GDP ratios and spending and tax growth, and reforms addressing structural deficits in the United States or other nations. Other areas include tax instruments and long-term growth, population aging and its fiscal and labor-market consequences, fiscal institutions and balanced-budget rules, and federal-state transfers of revenue authority and program responsibility. Selection emphasizes potential to contribute meaningfully to understanding long-term fiscal policy.
