Research Fellow

Updated: about 1 year ago
Location: Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS
Deadline: The position may have been removed or expired!

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RESEARCH FELLOW, Economics (3 openings), to work directly with Professor Nathaniel Hendren on research topics in applied micro-economics and empirical welfare analysis.  Will be part of Policy Impacts , an organization founded by Professor Hendren, that is dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making by promoting standardization in policy analysis.  Topics likely include the welfare analysis of environmental and criminal justice policies, empirical macroeconomics, and the impact and incidence of labor market shocks. Work will involve detailed and careful coding of the welfare impacts of government policies, analysis and coding of large microdatasets, literature reviews, and advanced meta-analysis methods using Stata and GitHub. It will also build upon earlier work studying the welfare impacts of government policies  and the impact of local labor markets on upward economic mobility .  


Job Requirements

REQUIRED:  a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in economics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, or a related field; at least two years’ specialized experience quantitative data analysis, research methods, and/or social sciences research (which may include coursework or experience gained as an undergraduate); and experience with programming, particularly around data analysis, cleaning, and simulations.  Job #21971

A full description and additional application instructions are available here .

This is full-time, one-year appointment that is renewable annually (contingent on funding) and is not eligible for visa sponsorship. An employment term of two years is strongly preferred.

This position will begin July 1, 2023.

10/13/22



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