DIRECTORATE FOR
SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES (SBE)

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES (SES)


Economics

The Program strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior.

Topics of current interest are computational economics, the transformation of command economies, human resource-related issues (poverty, labor productivity, the family, gender and racial discrimination, etc.), and global environmental change.

The Program also funds conferences and interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics.

The Program supports research in almost every subfield of economics, including econometrics, economic history, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, public finance, macroeconomics, and mathematical economics.

    Target Dates: January 15 and August 15


REFERENCE: GP1998-1320 -- revised 9/2/99