Research Assistant Positions – not at the NBER
This page provides links to full-time job listings associated with research projects led by NBER-affiliated researchers. These positions, which are not based at the NBER's Cambridge office, may be suitable for bachelor's degree candidates, graduate students, or post-docs. Positions typically have an expected duration of 1 to 3 years, and often give priority to candidates who are planning to continue to the next stage of their academic career upon completion of the position. This page does not include listings for jobs that utilize economic analysis for purposes other than academic research, such as postings for economics consulting firms and financial services firms. University career offices typically manage these job announcements.
Pre-doc Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Robert Collinson
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Field of research: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Urban Economics
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Data Analyst
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Casey Mulligan
Institution: University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Field of research: Behavioral and Experimental Economics
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Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring researchers: John List
Institution: University of Chicago
Field of research: Behavioral and Experimental Economics
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Anya Samek
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Field of research: Behavioral Economics
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Research Associate at Governance Lab
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Rohini Pande, Mike Callen
Institution: Governance Lab (in partnership with Yale University and LSE)
Field of research: Political Economy
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Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Alex Rees-Jones
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Business Economics and Public Policy Department
Fields of Research: Behavioral economics, public economics
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Full-time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Applied Econ, Behavioral Economics
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Cecilia Parlatore and Arpit Gupta
Institution: New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Finance Department
Fields of research: Economics and finance
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SIEPR Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ran Abramitzky, David Chan, Pascaline Dupas, Marcel Fafchamps, Matthew Gentzkow, Gopi Shah Goda, Andrew Hall, Eric Hanushek, Colleen Honigsberg, Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Amit Seru, Shoshana Vasserman
Institution: SIEPR, Stanford University
Fields of Research: Education, immigration, health, work, finance, policy, trade, housing, technology
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Chan
Institution: Stanford University
Fields of research: Applied Microeconomics, Health care, Productivity
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Robert Richmond and Andres Sarto
Institution: New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Finance Department
Fields of research: Finance and Macroeconomics
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sabrina Howell and Simone Lenzu
Sponsoring Institution: Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University
Fields of research: Entrepreneurial Finance, Productivity, Industrial Organization, Innovation, Corporate Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chang-Tai Hsieh and Erik Hurst
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: IO
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shan Ge
Institution: New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Finance Department
Field of research: Finance (mainly Corporate Finance & Household Finance)
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Johannes Stroebel and Theresa Kuchler
Institution: New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Finance Department
Field of research: Economics, Finance, Household Finance
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Antoinette Schoar, Jonathan Parker, Lawrence Schmidt
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field of research: housing economics, banking and consumer finance, micro-econometrics, and applied microeconomics
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Torben Andersen, Ravi Jagannathan
Institution: Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management)
Fields of Research: Empirical Asset Pricing
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jacopo Ponticelli
Institution: Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management)
Field of Research: Finance and Development
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amy Finkelstein
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Public Health
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: IO
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Gottlieb
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Health and labor economics
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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago (Energy & Environment Lab)
Fields of Research: Energy and environmental economics
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Pallais
Institution: Harvard University
Field: Labor Economics
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Pre-doc Research Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rebecca Diamond
Fields: Urban, Labor, and Public
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sendhil Mullainathan
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Field of research: Applied artificial intelligence
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Pre-doctoral research fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Gentzkow
Institution: Stanford University (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, machine learning
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Judy Chevalier, Zack Cooper, Soheil Ghili, Kenneth Gillingham, Yusuke Narita, Cormac O’Dea, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Ebonya Washington, Kevin Williams, Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Yale University
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Pre-doctoral research assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Hunt Allcott
Institution: Microsoft Research
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, machine learning, econometrics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, market design, public economics
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Senior Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Apply at Link)
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Azeem Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Projects related to econometric theory
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Oendrila Dube
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Projects related to media markets, gender equity, female labor market participation, and links between poverty and violent conflict in regions such as the Middle East and Africa
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Felix Tintelnot, Jonathan Dingel
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: International economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Luigi Zingales
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center
Field(s): Economics, Finance, Political Economy, Public Policy
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Brent Neiman, Rodrigo Adao, Rohan Kekre
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: International finance, macro, and trade
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Manasi Deshpande
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Empirical research on social safety net programs
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Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Benjamin B. Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky
Institutions: University of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley
Fields of research: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joe Kaboski, Taryn Dinkelman
Institution: University of Notre Dame (Department of Economics)
Fields of Research: Development Economics, Macroeconomics
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: EPoD India at LEAD at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Fields of Research: Economic research and public policy
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(Pre-doctoral) Full-Time Senior Research Specialist I (multiple openings) for AY21-22
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Atif Mian, Moritz Lenel, Adrien Matray, Natalie Marie Bachas, and others
Field(s) of Research: Applied Macroeconomics, Finance
Institution: Princeton University, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s) Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago (EPIC)
Fields of Research: Energy/environmental economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associates
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Benjamin Schoefer and Simon Jaeger
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Labor Markets
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(Pre-doctoral) Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Marcella Alsan
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Fields of Research: Health Economics, Development Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring researcher: Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of Research: International Macroeconomics, Finance
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(Pre-doctoral) Stanford Law Empirical Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring researchers: John J. Donohue, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Ho, Daniel Kessler, and Alison Morantz
Institution: Stanford Law School
Fields of Research: Empirical legal and social science research
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Full-Time Research Professional (pre-doctoral)
Sponsoring Researchers: Zhiguo He, John Heaton and other finance faculty
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
Field(s): Financial Economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Milena Almagro, Eric Budish, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Austan Goolsbee, Richard Hornbeck, Anders Humlum, Jack Mountjoy, Pascal Noel, Heather Sarsons, Chad Syverson, Thomas Wollmann, Anthony Lee Zhang
Institution: Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Applied microeconomics
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Full-Time Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Matthew Denes, Spyros Lagaras, Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Carnegie Mellon/Cornell
Field: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship
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Senior Research Specialist (Full-Time Research Assistant)
Sponsoring Researchers: Mark Aguiar, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene Grossman, Eduardo Morales, Ezra Oberfield, Stephen Redding, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Fields: International Trade, International Macroeconomics
Institution: Princeton University, International Economics Section (IES)
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Hans Christensen, João Granja, Christian Leuz, Mark Maffett, Charlie McClure, Mike Minnis, Maximilian Muhn, Valeri Nikolaev, and Thomas Rauter
Fields: Accounting, taxation, financial accounting and disclosure
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang
Fields: Race, Discrimination, and the Criminal Justice System
Institution: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
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Pre-Doc Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Zack Cooper, Steven Berry, Fiona Scott Morton
Fields: Health economics, IO, Public Economics
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
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Data Scientist
Sponsoring Researcher: Rohini Pande
Institution: EPoD India at LEAD at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Fields of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Full-time Senior Research Specialist for AY21-22
Sponsoring Researchers: Owen Zidar
Institution: Princeton University
Field(s): Applied Microeconomics, Public Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Alessandra Voena
Fields of Research: Labor economics, Development economics
Institution: Stanford University
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Neale Mahoney
Fields of Research: Health Economics, Consumer Finance
Institution: Stanford University
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Amanda E. Kowalski
Fields of Research: Health economics and applied econometrics
Institution: University of Michigan
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Josh Lerner, Shawn Cole, Victoria Ivashina, Diane Burton
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Impact Investments, Private Capital, Social Impact
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring researcher: Amy Finkelstein
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Health Economics
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Research Associate, PayDash
NBER Sponsoring researcher: Rohini Pande
Institution: EPoD India at LEAD at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Fields of Research: Economic engagement (labor markets, technology, and financial inclusion)
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Research Manager at Governance Lab
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Rohini Pande, Mike Callen
Institution: Governance Lab (in partnership with Yale University and LSE)
Field of research: Political Economy
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Full-Time Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Daniel Wolfenzon, Morten Bennedsen, Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Full Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Dan Benjamin (University of California, Los Angeles), Miles Kimball (University of Colorado Boulder), Ori Heffetz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Kristen Cooper (Gordon College)
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Kathmandu, Governance Lab (within the Daayitwa Abhiyaan)
Sponsoring Researchers: Rohini Pande, Mike Callen
Institution: Governance Lab (in partnership with Yale University and LSE)
Fields of Research: Political Economy
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Research Manager (Master's-Level)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Parag Pathak
Institution: MIT
Field: Economics, education policy, market design, labor economics
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Research Assistant (pre-doctoral)
Sponsoring Researchers: Kevin Milligan, Raffaele Saggio, Matt Lowe, Giovanni Gallipoli, Patrick Baylis, Victor Couture, Jesse Perla
Institution: University of British Columbia
Fields of Research: Labor, Macro, Environmental, Development, Political Economy, Applied Micro, Trade, Urban
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SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellowships
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gopi Shah Goda, Isaac Sorkin, Adrien Auclert, Kate Bundorf, Rebecca Diamond, Daniel Fetter, Andrew Hall, Brad Larsen, Paulo Somaini, Melanie Morten, Maria Polyakova, Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater
Fields: Economics and Public Policy
Institution: Stanford University, SIEPR
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Research Professional - Full-time
Sponsoring Researcher: Professor Lars Peter Hansen
Institution: University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: macro financial modeling, climate uncertainty, the interplay of macro and finance, fiscal studies and other MFR projects
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer
Fields of research: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Senior Project Manager
Sponsoring Researchers: Susan Athey, Eric Chyn, Justine Hastings, Jonah Rockoff, Seth Zimmerman
Institution: NBER, RIPL
Field(s): Applied Microeconomics, Computer Science, Data Science
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Full-Time Predoctoral Research Fellow/Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Steven Berry, Zack Cooper, Ebonya Washington, Costas Arkolakis, and Joseph Altonji
Institution: The Tobin Center at the Yale Economics Department
Fields: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education, Public Policy
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Postdoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Apply at Link)
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researche: Kent Smetters
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Penn Wharton Budget Model
Fields of research: Public Policy Economics, Macroeconomics, Microsimulation, Demographic Economics, Health Economics, International Economics, Environmental Economics
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Pre-doc Research Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Ali Yurukoglu
Fields: Economics, Political Economics, Finance
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
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