Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded for 2022-23 Academic Year.

Eleven postdoctoral scholars, including two in new fellowship programs, have been awarded NBER fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year. Te two new programs support fellows studying environmental and energy economics and racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes. In all cases, fellows are selected by review panels following widely disseminated calls for applications.

Samuel Arenberg, who received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and Maggie Shi, who received her PhD from Columbia University, will hold postdoctoral fellowships in aging and health economics that are supported by the National Institute on Aging. Arenberg will study the relationship between place of birth and longevity in the United States. Shi studies how policy decisions shape provider and patient behavior, and the implications for healthcare cost and qualit y.

Olivia Kim, who received her PhD from MIT, has been selected for a postdoctoral fellowship for study of the aging workforce. This fellowship is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Kim will investigate how family considerations affect older workers' decisions about whether to retire, with particular attention to the role of self-employment.

Zhixiu Yu, who received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in retirement and disability policy research funded by the Social Security Administration. She will investigate the interplay between social insurance programs and householdlevel decisions that bear on health outcomes in under-represented populations.

Cailin Slattery, a University of Virginia PhD who is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University, and Tidiane Ly, who received his PhD from the University of Lyon, have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships for the study of interjurisdictional tax competition. Their fellowships are sponsored by Arnold Ventures. Slattery plans to study trade-offs among the various policy instruments that governments use to regulate business activity. Ly is investigating the welfare effect of tax...