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, but which do not involve employment through NBER. Similar positions that do involve NBER employment are posted. The positions listed below 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.

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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Mark Duggan
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of Research: Housing
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Laura Alfaro
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Accounting & Management
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Development, Trade, and Markets Research Fellow (Tobin Fellow)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Lauren Bergquist and Amit Khandelwal
Field(s) of Research: International development, economics, trade, markets, firms
Institution: Yale University
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Full-Time Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Anya Samek
Field(s) of Research: Education, health, housing, inequality, and racial, ethnic, and gender disparities
Institution: Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
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Data Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Sarah Miller
Field(s) of Research: labor economics, public economics, household finance, and political economy
Institution: OpenResearch Lab
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Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: David Autor, Daron Acemoglu, Josh Angrist, and Parag Pathak
Field(s) of Research: Economics, workforce
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Pre-doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Steve Cicala
Institution: Tufts University
Field(s) of Research: Energy and Environmental Economics
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Pr-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Heather Royer
Institution:University of California-Santa Barbara
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, Applied Microeconomics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Winnie van Dijk
Institution:The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics
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Predoctoral Policy and Communications Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Autor, Daron Acemoglu
Institution: MIT, Blueprint Labs
Field(s) of Research: Consequences of policy choices and improve society
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Autor, Daron Acemoglu
Institution: MIT, Blueprint Labs
Field(s) of Research: Consequences of policy choices and improve society
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Full Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Maria Polyakova (Stanford), Victoria Udalova (US Census)
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Health Care, Applied Micro
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Pre-doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Taha Choukhmane and Lawrence Schmidt
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management, Finance Group
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Household Finance
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chiara Farronato
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Data science
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Researcher Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marianne Bertrand
Institution: Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: labor economics, corporate finance, and development economics
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Full-Time Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chris Mayer, Tomasz Piskorski, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Real estate, urban economics, financial intermediation and banking, consumer finance
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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Corporate Governance Fellows For Finance, Economics, and Accounting Researchers
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lucian Bebchuk
Institution: Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
Field(s) of Research: Corporate Governance
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lauren Cohen
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Accounting & Management, Economics
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Full-time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tim Layton
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, Public Finance
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Susanna Loeb
Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Field(s) of Research: Economics of Education
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Research Project Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Susanna Loeb
Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Field(s) of Research: Economics of Education
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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jan De Loecker
Institution: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Field(s) of Research: lndustrial Organization, market power, firm performance
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Research Scholar – Applied Microeconomics
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Petra Moser
Institution: New York University
Field(s) of research: Inequality, immigration, and innovation.
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Research Scholar - Macroeconomics
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Gian Luca Clementi, Nik Engbom, Abdou Ndiaye, Venky Venkateswaran, and Stan Zin
Institution: New York University
Field(s) of research: Labor market dynamics, public finance, firm dynamics and information economics
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Research Scholar - Industrial Organization
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Giulia Brancaccio, Chris Conlon, Michael Dickstein, and Paul Scott
Institution: New York University
Field(s) of research: Health reform and healthcare markets, environment and agricultural economics, retail markets, antitrust and regulations, and IO theory
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Research Intern (Pre-doctoral fellow): Economics
Sponsoring Researchers: Reka Juhasz, Heather Sarsons, Victor Couture, Gorkem Bostanci, Giovanni Gallipoli, Munir Squires, Sam Hwang, Patrick Baylis, Matt Lowe
Institution: Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research (CIDER), VSE, UBC
Fields of research: Development economics: labour markets and firms, Social integration, Environmental Economics, and other areas
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: David Scharfstein
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Finance, Banking
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Matt Weinzierl
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Tax Theory
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Itamar Drechsler
Institution: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
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Associate Research Manager / Research Manager Consultant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Yale University
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Energy/Environment/Policy
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Postdoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Development/ Economics
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Leemore Dafny
Fields of Research: Healthcare markets, policy and regulation
Institutions: Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jason Abaluck, Steven Berry, Zachary Bleemer, Lorenzo Caliendo, Zack Cooper, John Eric Humphries, Ilse Lindenlaub, Chima Ndumele, Cormac O'Dea, Rohini Pande, Michael Peters, Katja Seim, Jacob Wallace, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Research Manager, Environment
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Predoctoral Empirical Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Nicola Bianchi
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: Industrial organization, labor economics, and organizational economics
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Full-Time Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Summer Research Assistant Position
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Pre-doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shing-Yi Wang
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Laura Alfaro and Claudia Steinwender
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economic History
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Bill Kerr
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Labor economics
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Sam Hanson
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management, Finance, Marketing, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets, and Organizational Behavior
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sandra Black
Institution: Columbia University, Bridge-to-the-Ph.D.
Field(s) of research: Behavioral economics, development, macroeconomics, urban economics, industrial organization, labor, education, health, and political economy
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Research Coordinator AccredStudy
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marcella Alsan, Crystal Yang
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of research: Health Care
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Gottlieb
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), University of Chicago
Field(s) of research: Health and labor economics
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Full Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Amir Kermani
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: Urban economics, development economics, international trade, and applied macroeconomics
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Health Economics Postdoctoral Fellow (Full Time - Cambridge)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathan Hendren, Michael Stepner
Institution: Harvard's Opportunity Insights
Field(s) of Research: Health Economic
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Research Assistant (Part Time - Remote)
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Gopi Shah Goda, Emilie Jackson, Lauren Nicholas, Sarah Stith
Institutions: Stanford University, Michigan State University, Colorado School of Public Health, University of New Mexico
Fields of Research: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Aging
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Predoctoral Fellow (BA- or MA-level Research Professional)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Apply at Link)
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
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Full-Time Pre-doctoral Research Economist at LSE
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Stephen Machin and Henry Overman
Institution: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Fields of Research: labour economics, spatial economics, applied microeconomics
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Full-Time Post-doctoral Research Economist at LSE
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alan Manning
Institution: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Fields of Research: labour economics, migration, microeconomics
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Full-Time Pre-doctoral Research Assistant at LSE
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alan Manning
Institution: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Field(s) of Research: labour economics, migration, microeconomics
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Full-Time Research Assistant at MIT Sloan
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Antoinette Schoar
Institution: MIT Sloan
Field(s) of Research: housing consumer finance, fintech, cryptocurrencies, and micro-econometrics
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Postdoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer, Daniel Greenwald, and Emil Verner
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management Finance Group
Field(s) of Research: Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, and Macroeconomics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Oeindrila Dube
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) University of Chicago
Field (s) of Research: Development, gender
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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jens Ludwig & Johnathan Guryan
Institution: University of Chicago, Crime Lab and Education Lab
Field (s) of Research: Machine learning, economics, education, crime
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Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Oeindrila Dube
Institution: University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Field (s) of Research: Development economics, political economy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Leonardo Bursztyn, Konstantin Sonin
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), University of Chicago
Field (s) of Research: Political economics
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate (Applied Economics)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Namrata Kala
Fields: Economics, Applied Economics
Institution: MIT Sloan
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Postgraduate Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Institution: Yale University
Field of Research: economic development, especially COVID-19 prevention
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John List
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), University of Chicago
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management Finance Group
Field(s) of Research: Household Finance, Asset Pricing, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik
Institution: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Inequality, Regional Economic Divides, Local Economic Development, Industrial, Labor and Placed-Based Policies
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bruce Meyer
Institution: University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy (Comprehensive Income Dataset Project)
Field(s) of Research: Poverty, Safety net, Inequality, Homelessness
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Research Scientist
Sponsoring Researcher: Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, John Friedman
Institution: Harvard's Opportunity Insights
Field of research: Public policy
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Two Full-time Research Assistants
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: Behavior Change for Good, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Cormac O’Dea, Stephen Zeldes
Institution: Yale University Economics Department, Tobin Center for Economic Policy
Field(s) of Research: Social Security, Retirement Plans, Public Policy, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Household Finance
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Chan
Institution: Stanford University
Field of Research: Applied microeconomics focusing on health care and productivity
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State and Local Policy Senior Program Manager
Sponsoring research affiliate(s): Joshua Rauh
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Finance, Statistics, Public Policy
Institution: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute Development Innovation Lab)
Fields of Research: Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bradley Shapiro and Sarah Moshary
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Marketing, industrial organizations, health care
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sendhil Mullainathan
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Center for Applied AI
Field(s) of Research: Applied machine learning, economics, health, social policy, behavioral science
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jesse Rothstein
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy
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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (Energy & Environment Lab)
Fields of Research: Energy and environmental economics
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Postdoctoral Scholar (Summer 2022 start)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Benjamin
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field(s) of Research: Social-science genomics
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Statistical Genetics (Summer 2022 start)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Benjamin
Field(s) of Research: Statistical Genetics
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
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Rural Livelihoods Policy Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Gender and Governance Research & Policy Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Zack Cooper, Steve Berry, Fiona Scott Morton
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Public Economics, Health Economics, IO
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Predoctoral Research Fellow - Staff Associate: (Finance)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Xavier Giroud, Wei Jiang, Michaela Pagel and other faculty
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, financial economics, applied econometrics, asset pricing, corporate finance
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Policy Research
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Thomas McGuire
Field(s) of Research: Health Care Policy, Economics
Institution: Harvard Medical School
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Anthony DeFusco, Filippo Mezzanotti, David Matsa
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Empirical corporate and household finance
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jacopo Ponticelli, Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Finance and development
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: FinTech, finance, development
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Torben Andersen, Viktor Todorov, Ravi Jagannathan
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field of research: Empirical asset pricing
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Research Analyst for State and Local Governance Initiative
Sponsoring research affiliate(s): Joshua Rauh
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Finance, Statistics, Public Policy
Institution: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Full-Time Research Analyst (multiple openings)
Sponsoring Researchers: Joseph Gyourko, Gilles Duranton, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Jessie Handbury, Nina Harari, and Sophie Calder-Wang
Fields of Research: Applied microeconomics, real estate, urban economics, household finance, public finance, development
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
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Pre-doc Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shoshana Vasserman
Fields of Research(s): Industrial organization and applied microeconomics.
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
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Predoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Apply at Link)
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Geruso
Institution: University of Texas at Austin (Department of Economics and Population Research Center)
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Demography/Population Science, Public Policy
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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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SFS Post-Doc Position
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Antoinette Schoar
Institution: Society for Financial Studies
Field(s) of Research: Finance/Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford GSB
Field(s) of Research: International Macroeconomics and Finance
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Thomas Kane
Institution: Harvard University, Center for Education Policy Research
Field(s) of Research: Education
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Staff Associate: Economics Division
NBER Sponsoring researcher(s): Ashley Swanson and Laura Boudreau
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, Industrial organization, Public Finance
Institution: Columbia Business School
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Pre-doc Research Associate, University of Notre Dame
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Robert Collinson, Eric Chyn (Dartmouth College)
Fields: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Urban Economics
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Department of Economics
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Full-time research analyst (pre-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lori Beaman
Institution: Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Howard Kunreuther, Carolyn Kousky
Institution: University of Pennsylvania Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
Field(s) of Research: Climate resilience, climate risk management, disaster insurance markets, natural disaster risk management, and related applied economic/policy topics
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Associate Professional Specialist (Part Time)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Sylvain Chassang, Leeat Yariv
Institution: Princeton University
Fields of Research: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Lauren Cohen
Institution: Harvard University Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Data Science
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Full-Time Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Lyle
Institution: United States Military Academy at West Point
Field(s) of Research: Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Senior Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher Annamaria Lusardi
Institution: The George Washington University, GFLEC
Field(s) of Research: Financial literacy research, policy, and solutions
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Pre-Doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher (s): Richard Portes
Institution: AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics and Financial economics
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Jacopo Ponticelli and Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Empirical Economics and Industrial Organization
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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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Research Associate – Data Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Till von Wachter
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, The California Policy Lab
Field(s) of Research: Homelessness, criminal justice, poverty, education, and labor
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Staff Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Adam Sacarny
Institution: Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Field(s) of Research: Health economics, public economics, health policy
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham
Institution: Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, labor economics
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Karen K. Lewis
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
Institution: The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, (Wharton School)
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Thomas Winberry
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, public finance, investment dynamics, and behavioral corporate finance
Institution: The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, (Wharton School)
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Research Data Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Amir Kermani, (Do Not Contact, Please Apply at Link)
Field(s) of Research: General
Institution: UC Berkeley, Fisher Center for Real Estate at the Haas School of Business
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Research Intern (Pre-doctoral fellow)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Henry Siu, and other economics faculty
Field(s) of Research: Development economics: labor markets and firms, Social integration, Environmental Economics, and other areas
Institution: Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research (CIDER), VSE, UBC
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Predoctoral Fellow (Staff Associate)
Sponsoring researchers: Matt Backus, Jesse Schreger, and other economics faculty
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, industrial organization, and other areas
Institution: Columbia Business School
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Research Economist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Annamaria Lusardi
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Household Finance, Financial Literacy
Institution: The George Washington University, The Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande, Mike Callen
Institution: Governance Lab (in partnership with Yale University and LSE)
Field(s) of Research: Political Economy
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Full Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Institution: Yale University
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John List
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute Chicago Experiments Initiative )
Fields of Research: Economics
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Full-Time (Pre-Doc) Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Joseph Gyourko, Gilles Duranton, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Jessie Handbury, Nina Harari, Sophie Calder-Wang
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, real estate, urban economics, household finance, public finance, industrial organization, development
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
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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 Toomas Laarits
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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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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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 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 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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(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 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: Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of Research: International Macroeconomics, Finance
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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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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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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Research Data Analyst
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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