RDRC — Fellows

Training Fellowships

To encourage research that will deepen our understanding of the health, labor supply, behavioral, and other economic or policy implications of retirement and/or disability, the NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center (RDRC) seeks applications for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships.

Post-Doctoral Fellowships enable outstanding early-career economists to visit NBER’s Cambridge office for a year of intensive research on health, labor supply, behavioral and other economic or policy aspects of retirement and/or disability.

Pre-Doctoral Fellowships  provide support to doctoral students for independent research at their home university, with supervision from their dissertation advisor, to deepen our understanding of health, labor supply, behavioral, and other economic or policy aspects of retirement and/or disability.

2021-22 Training Fellows in Disability Policy Research

Post-Doctoral Fellows

  • Kuan-Ming Chen  (PhD University of Chicago) is interested in a wide variety of topics in labor and health economics. He studies field experiments or reforms that serve as quasi-experiments, and then combines these estimates with microdata to build empirical models to study policy-relevant questions. His current research focuses on long-term care and its implications for families.

  • Maxwell Kellogg (PhD University of Chicago) studies how links between employment, health insurance coverage, and the household affect who uses and benefits from public disability insurance programs. Max will be joining the economics faculty at the University of Oslo after completing his fellowship.

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

  • Jonathan Cohen, MIT (Economics) studies unemployment insurance, including a historical German firm-side policy intended to decrease the usage of unemployment insurance as a bridge to retirement.

  • Ari Ne’eman, Harvard University (Health Policy and Political Analysis), uses administrative data to study the impact of the Department of Justice’s Olmstead litigation on employment and earnings outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

  • Martina Uccioli, MIT (Economics) studies how employment protection legislation affects workers' and firms' behavior.

 

2020-21 Training Fellows in Disability Policy Research

Post-Doctoral Fellows

  • Adrienne Sabety, PhD, Harvard University, 2020
  • Mingli Zhong, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2020

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

  • Jonathan Leganza, University of California, San Diego, Economics
  • Ellen Stuart, University of Michigan, Economics
  • Martina Uccioli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics

 

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