19 Graduate Students Win Support for Dissertation Research.

The NBER annually supports a number of graduate students who are conducting dissertation research. Nineteen students will receive support for the 2021-22 academic year.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provides support for five graduate students studying energy economics and three studying behavioral macroeconomics. The energy economics fellows are Sarah Armitage of Harvard University, who is studying technology transitions and the timing of environmental policy; Lauren Beatty of the University of Maryland, who is analyzing public policies that affect methane emissions from oil and gas production; Elise Breshears of Michigan State University, who is studying how redlining in mortgage markets affects the energy efficiency of the housing stock; Nafisa Lohawala of the University of Michigan, who is studying the effects of electric vehicle subsidies on vehicle demand; and Aspen Fryberger Underwood of Clemson University, who is analyzing the factors that affect the adoption and usage of electric vehicles.

The graduate fellows in behavioral macroeconomics are Miguel Acosta of Columbia University, whose dissertation examines the aggregate demand effects of monetary policy; Luisa Cefala of the University of California, Berkeley, who is studying the role of memory in the formation of beliefs and...