Duke University's
Summer Institute on the
Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
June 14 - July 9, 2004

During the summer of 2004, Duke University, Durham, NC, hosted the third of four National Science Foundation funded summer institutes on EITM: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models. The program advances scholarship that integrates theoretical model development with empirical evaluation through a highly interactive training program, primarily for advanced graduate students and junior faculty, led by numerous scholars from across the discipline working at the forefront of such empirical-theoretical integration.

The EITM program seeks to train a new generation of scholars who can better link theory and empirical work. Each institute, conducted by a team of up to 15 research faculty, can accommodate up to 25 advanced graduate students and junior faculty.

Graduate students who would benefit most from the program would have some training in both formal methodology and quantitative analysis, with advanced training in at least one of those, would have passed all exams, and would be well along in the dissertation project but able still to incorporate improvements enabled by the program. Likewise, applications from junior faculty looking to improve the dissertation for publication in a direction that incorporates EITM advances or launching a second, EITM-like project would be welcome. These describe the ideal applicants; interested students or junior faculty should not refrain from applying due to some perceived shortfall on any of these dimensions.

More information on EITM programs may be found at the National Science Foundation.