About: Discovering and nurturing individuals with high potential to excel in STEM fields is critical to scientific progress, innovation, and growth. To showcase and promote research on economic aspects of this process, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will convene a hybrid conference on the economics of talent, with presenters in-person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday, November 15, 2024. The conference, which will feature seven research presentations, will be co-organized by Ruchir Agarwal (Harvard Kennedy School), Glenn Ellison (MIT and NBER), and Patrick Gaule (University of Bristol).
Research topics that may be examined at the conference include, but are not limited to:
