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A number of past or current NBER researchers have recently been tapped for important public policy positions. Alan B. Krueger and Katharine G. Abraham, both of whom resigned from their positions as Research Associates in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies when they were confirmed for their current posts, are serving as the Chair, and as one of the members, of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Krueger is on leave from his position as the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University; Abraham is on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a Professor in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. In addition, Janice C. Eberly, formerly a Research Associate in the NBER's Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program, resigned from the NBER when she was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department. She is on leave from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

A number of other NBER Research Associates are serving in various government positions while on leave from the NBER. They include: Lee G...