The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, non-profit research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Established in 1920, it is dedicated to conducting and disseminating impartial economic research to private, public, and governmental entities. The NBER conducts and sponsors research on a wide range of economic issues, with an emphasis on identifying and analyzing the underlying causes of economic growth, inflation, and recessions. The NBER is comprised of a network of over 1,500 university professors and researchers from across the United States and around the world. These scholars conduct research on a broad range of economic topics, including labor markets, international trade, health economics, tax policy, and the economics of education. The NBER also sponsors a number of programs and working groups that focus on specific areas of research, including economics of aging, entrepreneurship, and finance. The NBER is known for producing some of the most influential and widely-cited research in the field of economics, and many of its affiliated scholars have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The organization’s research is considered to be high-quality, peer-reviewed, and rigorous, and its findings are widely respected and used by policymakers, academics, and business leaders around the world.