(ht Stephen Kinsella) - the NSF issued a call this year for white papers on the grand challenges in the social and behavioural sciences. The AEA have posted the Economics submissions on this page. Would be very interested in discussing some of these submissions with readers of the blog interested, particularly the behavioural and measurement papers.
Acemoglu, Daron Challenges for social sciences: institutions and economic development
Alesina, Alberto Why certain countries have developed and others have not?
Altonji, Joseph Multiple Skills, Multiple Types of Education, and the Labor Market: A Research Agenda
Autor, David and Lawrence Katz Grand challenges in the study of employment and technological change
Baily, Martin Neil Some Foundational and Transformative Grand Challenges in Economics
Berry, Steven A Proposal for Future SBE/NSF Funded Research: Refocusing Microeconomic Policy Research
Bloom, Nick Key Outstanding Questions in Social Sciences
Blume, Lawrence Robustness and Fragility of Markets: Research at the Interface of Economics and Computer Science
Boskin, Michael Ideas about possible NSF grand challenges in economics over the next twenty years
Brown, Charles, Dan Brown, Dalton Conley, Vicki Freedman, Kate McGonagle, Fabian Pfeffer, Narayan Sastry, Robert Schoeni, and Frank Stafford Future Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Card, David, Raj Chetty, Martin Feldstein, and Emmanuel Saez Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States
Cramton, Peter Market Design: Harnessing Market Methods to Improve Resource Allocation
Cutler, David Why Don’t People and Institutions Do What They Know They Should?
Diamond, Peter Three Important Themes: Taxation of Capital Income, Behavioral Economics in Equilbrium Analyses, and Systemic Risk
Duflo, Esther A Research Agenda for Development Economics
Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum The Contribution of Data to Advances in Research in International Trade: An Agenda for the Next Decade
Fischer, Stanley Questions about the Future of the International Economy
Fudenberg, Drew Predictive Game Theory
Gintis, Herbert Long-range Research Priorities in Economics, Finance, and the Behavioral Sciences
Goulder, Lawrence Integrating Economic and Political Considerations in the Analysis of Global Environmental Policies
Greenstein, Shane, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda for NSF
Gruber, Jon What is the Right Amount of Choice?
Haltiwanger, John Making Drill Down Analysis of the Economy a Reality
Hansen, Lars Peter, Markus Brunnermeier, Anil Kashyap, Arvind
Krishnamurthy, Andrew W. Lo Modeling and Measuring Systemic Risk
Hanson, Gordon Future Directions for Research on Immigration
Hanushek, Eric Developing a Skills-based Agenda for "New Human Capital" Research
Hart, Oliver Making the Case for Contract Theory
Heckman, James A Research Agenda For Understanding the Dynamics of Skill Formation
Hubbard, Glenn Some Compelling Broad-Gauged Research Agendas in Economics
Imbens, Guido Challenges in Econometrics
Jackson, Matthew Research Opportunities in Social and Economic Networks
Jorgenson, Dale A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts
Kapteyn, Arie Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences
Kroszner, Randall Implications of the Financial Crisis
Levine, David Virtual Model Validation for Economics
Lo, Andrew A Complete Theory of Human Behavior
Moffitt, Robert A New Household Panel in the U.S.
Nordhaus, William Some Foundational and Transformative Grand Challenges for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: The Problem of Global Public Goods
Poterba, James Research Opportunities in Economics: Suggestions for the Coming Decade
Reis, Ricardo Three outstanding challenges for economic research
Rodrik, Dani A Research Agenda in Economic Diagnostics
Rogoff, Kenneth Three Challenges Facing Modern Macroeconomics
Roth, Al Market Design: Understanding markets well enough to fix them when they’re broken
Samuelson, Larry Future Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Stavins, Robert Some Research Priorities in Environmental Economics
Van Reenen, John The productivity grand challenge: Why do organizations differ so much?
Varian, Hal Clinical Trials in Economics
Weir, David Grand Challenges for the Scientific Study of Aging
3 comments:
I have looked at a few of these: lots of great ideas. On the behavioural front (broadly defined) Lo and Gintis are good. In labour/education: Heckman, Hanushek, Altonji. There are some common themes here which are reassuring.
On data & methods:Kapteyn, Varian, Imbens.
I didn't see much on health & biology which is surprising.
These are fun to read. I enjoyed Lo's too and I noticed that more than one author mentioned the need for economics to talk with and draw from other social sciences.
These are terrific. Ideal reading material for first-year Ph.D. students. I have so far got through Altonji, Autor, Hanushek and Heckman. Highly recommend those four.
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