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January 31, 2010
Economist
Location: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Aging
Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) http://www.nia.nih.gov/BSR
BSR seeks a junior or senior economist with solid communication and entrepreneurial skills to develop and manage BSR’s large, policy-relevant economics portfolio. Candidates should have a PhD and demonstrated research background in, e.g., labor economics, health economics, econometrics, macroeconomics, public finance, behavioral economics, or economic demography. Economists at BSR work at the frontiers of economic research and other behavioral and life disciplines across many areas, identify new priority areas for research, develop and manage multimillion dollar initiatives, and collaborate with other federal agencies and the National Academies of Science. Up to 20% time may be devoted to original research. To discuss short-term (including part-time), secundment and sabbatical opportunities contact John Haaga (see below).
At almost $80 million BSR is one of the largest funders of economic research, and there may be prospects for a significant expansion built around a developing new initiative on health care reform. BSR-funded research findings are often used by Congress and the Executive Branch.
BSR supports research on both individual and population aging, including the economic and public policy implications of work/retirement decisions and health economics across the adult life-course. BSR funds major infrastructural studies including the Health and Retirement Study and comparable studies around the world. (See vacancy announcement at above URL for links to (1) list of currently funded research and (2) summary of economics research portfolio.)
Current initiatives recommended by a recent high-level review of BSR
include adapting behavioral economics to health issues; developing
national non-market satellite accounts for health and wellbeing;
forecasting retirement and Medicare and Social Security; neuroeconomics;
macro consequences of population aging; early life determinants of adult
health; patterns of life-cycle wealth; and developing international data
sets for comparative analysis. See
Vacancies are posted at http://www.nia.nih.gov/AboutNIA/Jobs.htm (NIA-10-368913-CR-DE, NIA-10-368913-CR-MP, NIA-10-372792-CR-DE, NIA-10-372792-CR-MP). For position information contact John Haaga, 301-496-3131, HaagaJ@mail.nih.gov; for application information contact Lauren Carroll Tedesco, 301-594-2288, Lauren.Carroll@nih.gov.
BSR staff will be at the ASSA meetings in January 2010; call Laura Jensen, 301-496-3131, to schedule a meeting.
DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers
