Investments in Early Career Scientists.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Investments in Early Career Scientists took place April 29 in Washington, DC and online. Research Associates Donna K. Ginther of the University of Kansas, Bruce A. Weinberg of The Ohio State University, and Kaye Husbands Fealing of the Georgia Institute of Technology organized the meeting, which was supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2020-14066. Keynote addresses were delivered by Michael Lauer, deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health, and by Nikolay Ogryzko of UK Research and Innovation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER, "What Explains Science's Expanded Reliance on Postdoctoral Researchers ?"

* Stephanie D. Cheng, Edgeworth Economics; Elisabeth Perlman and Joseph Staudt, US Census Bureau; and Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University, "The Effect of Funding Delays on the Research Workforce: Evidence from Tax Records"

* Marc J. Lerchenmueller and Leo Schmallenbach, University of Mannheim, and Karin Hoisl, Max Planck Institute for Innovation...