Research Assistant Positions – not at the NBER
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Winston Wei Dou
Institution: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Fields of Research: Macroeconomics, public finance, investment dynamics, econometrics and behavioral corporate finance.
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Research Assistant (2 temporary positions)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gabriel Zucman
Institution: Stockholm University
Fields of Research: Public Finance and Health Economics
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Post Doctoral Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lisa Gennetian
Institution: Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy
Fields of Research: Economics
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Associate In Research
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lisa Gennetian
Institution: Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy
Fields of Research: Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Sabrina T. Howell
Institution: The New York University Stern School of Business
Fields of Research: Entrepreneurial Finance, Fintech, Private Equity, Innovation, Banking, Productivity, Spatial Economics, Industrial Organization
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Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Aurelie Ouss, Megan Stevenson, Winnie van Dijk and John Eric Humphries
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Energy/Environment/Economics
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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: Energy/Environment/Economics
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Predoctoral Research Assistant Positions
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Kurt Lavetti
Institution: Ohio State University
Field(s) of Research: health economics, labor economics, racial health disparities
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Post-doctoral Research Assistant Positions
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Kurt Lavetti and Trevon Logan
Institution: Ohio State University
Field(s) of Research: health economics, labor economics, racial health disparities
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Laura Alfaro
Institution: Harvard University, Harvard Business School
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Predoctoral Research Assistant Positions
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nicole Maestas
Institution: Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Field(s) of Research: labor and health economics, including topics on disability insurance, work capacity and employment, health insurance and health care utilization, and disparities in access to mental health care
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Post-doctoral Fellow/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
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ingrid Gould Ellen
Institution: New York University
Field(s) of Research: Economics, land use, urban policy, housing
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Research Associate (full-time pre-doctoral position)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Taryn Dinkelman
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John List
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Labor economics, education/human capital, discrimination, behavioral economics, and other topics within applied microeconomics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marcella Alsan
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, Inequality
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ebonya Washington
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: political economy; economics of race
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Nicola Bianchi
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of Research: Applied micro, labor economics, industrial organization, organizational economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow Positions
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Ran Abramitzky, Hunt Allcott, Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael Boskin, David Chan, Matthew Gentzkow, Gopi Shah Goda, Rebecca Lester, Andrew Hall, Omer Karaduman, Neale Mahoney, Melanie Morten, Jeremy Weinstein, Adrienne Sabety, Amit Seru, Alessandra Voena
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of research: Energy and Environment, Development, Economics, Finance, Healthcare, Inequality, Labor, Microeconomics, Political Economy, Public Policy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Chan
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: applied microeconomics focusing on health care, productivity, and equity
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab
Field(s) of Research: Topics at the intersection of development economics and political economy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Elisa Rubbo
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of Research: Macroeconomics, international trade
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Research Analysist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Diego Comin
Institution: The World Bank
Fields of Research: Economics, Innovation and technology adoption.
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Yale SOM
Fields of Research: Labor Economics, Economics of Education
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christian Leuz
Fields of Research: Accounting
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Christopher Blattman
Sponsoring Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Fields of Research: Violence prevention, economics organized crime, topics at the intersection of development economics and political economy
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Tobias Salz
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Economics
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute & Urban Labs (Energy & Environment Lab)
Field(s) of Research: Energy/Environment/Policy
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Research Coordinator (Behavior Change for Good Initiative)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Research Project Manager (Behavior Change for Good Initiative)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zack Cooper, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Song Ma, Rohini Pande, Michael Peters, Fabrizio Zilibotti
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Finance, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
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Research Analyst (multiple positions)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gilles Duranton, Joe Gyourko, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Ben Keys, Maisy Wong, Jessie Handbury
Institution: The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Applied micro, spatial, urban and regional economics, housing and real estate economics, household finance, industrial organization, development, public economics
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Victoria Ivashina
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, private equity, economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Kilian Huber
Fields of Research: Macroeconomics, Finance
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Arthur van Benthem and Susanna Berkouwer
Fields of Research: Energy and Environmental/Development Economics
Institution: University of Pennsylvani (The Wharton School)
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Judd Kessler and Corinne Low
Fields of Research: Behavioral Environmental/Experimental Economics
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ben Lockwood and Alex Rees-Jones
Fields of Research: Public Economics
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Uli Doraszelski and Leon Musolff
Fields of Research: Industrial Organization
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson
Sponsoring Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Fields of Research: Economics of industry, industrial organization
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Nathaniel Hendren
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Economics, workforce/labor, macroeconomics
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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Matthew Gentzkow
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Stanford University
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Staff Associate (Predoctoral Research Fellow): Finance
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Ewens
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Private equity, entrepreneurial finance, innovation
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Staff Associate (Predoctoral Research Fellow): Economics – Applied Micro
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jesse Schreger
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, development economics
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Predoctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Pallais
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Economics, labor economics
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Antoinette Schoar
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: fintech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, financial intermediation, and consumer finance
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Predoctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Treb Allen and Davin Chor
Institution: Dartmouth College
Field(s) of Research: International Trade, spatial economics, urban and regional economics
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Technical Editing and Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (Do not contact, apply to directly to listing JR18829 at the link below.)
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
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Senior Research Support Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nikhil Agarwal, Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak
Institution: MIT
Fields of research: Economics, education, health care
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Predoctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dmitry Taubinsky
Institution: University of California at Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral economics, public economics, and household finance
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Gottlieb
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Health, labor, and urban economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Jonathan Dingel and Felix Tintelnot
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s)of Research: International trade, spatial economics and the economics of climate change
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Full-Time Research Professional (pre-doctoral)
NBER 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)of Research: Financial Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shaoda Wang
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, environmental economics, and political economy
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zack Cooper, Steven Berry, Fiona Scott Morton
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, IO, Public Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Koichiro Ito
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Domestic and international environmental policies, randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental research design, and structural estimation
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Lars Peter Hansen
Institution: Macro Finance Research Program, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Economic Dynamics, Computational Science, Stochastic Processes, and Finance
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Magne Mogstad, Manasi Deshpande, and Evan Rose
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Applied econometrics, labor, and public economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rodrigo Adao, Rohan Kekre, Guido Lorenzoni
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Macro and international economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chang-Tai Hsieh and Erik Hurst
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Global innovation, China’s economic growth, technological revolution in the US service sector
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Erik Hurst
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Finance, fiscal policy, COVID-19
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Carolin Pflueger
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial markets
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nikhil Agarwal
Institution: MIT
Field(s) of Research: Market Design, Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
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Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John J. Donohue and Daniel Kessler
Institution: Stanford Law School
Field(s) of Research: Law & Economics, Economics of Crime, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute & Urban Labs (Energy & Environment Lab)
Field(s) of Research: Energy/Environment/Economics
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Scientific Project Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (do not contact, apply to JR16995 at link below)
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Eric Budish, Anthony Lee Zhang, Jacob Leshno, Joe Vavra, Christina Patterson, Chad Syverson, Austan Goolsbee, Eric Zwick, Scott Nelson, Jack Mountjoy, Pascal Noel, Milena Almagro, Thomas Wollmann, Jonathan Dingel, Rodrigo Adao
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s)of Research: Microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, public policy, behavioral science
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Predoctoral Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Atif Mian
Institution: Princeton University, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
Fields of research: applied macroeconomics, finance, policy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Luigi Zingales
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School, Stigler Center
Field(s)of Research: Economics, Political Economy, Finance, Public Policy
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Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Coinbase Institute
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jesse Schreger and Laura Boudreau
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, development economics
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Senior Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gene Grossman and Mark Aguiar
Institution: Princeton University
Field(s) of Research: International Economics
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Senior Research Specialists (pre-doctoral fellows)
Sponsoring Researchers: Henrik Kleven, Ilyana Kuziemko, Owen Zidar
Institution: Princeton University
Fields of Research: Public Finance, income and wealth inequality, entrepreneurship, gender equality, regional economic development, political economy, and the analysis of tax and social insurance policies.
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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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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Sponsoring Researcher: Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang
Institution: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of Research: Race, Discrimination, and the Criminal Justice System
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Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Amir Kermani
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: Urban economics, development economics, international trade, public finance and applied macroeconomics.
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Amy Finkelstein
Institution: MIT
Field(s) of Research: Health economics
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Economics, Fintech, Crypto
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Economics, Fintech, Crypto
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bill Evans
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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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 Associate, Delhi-Based
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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Data and Policy Manager, Governance
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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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson
Institution: Harvard University
Fields of research: Behavioral Economics, Household Finance
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Policy and Communications Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Autor and Daron Acemoglu
Institution: MIT
Fields of research: Economics, Workforce/Labor
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Research Fellow – K12
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak
Institution: MIT
Fields of research: Economics, Education
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Research Fellow – Workforce
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Autor and Daron Acemoglu
Institution: MIT
Fields of research: Economics, Workforce/Labor
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Research Fellow – Health Care
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nikhil Agarwal and Tobias Salz
Institution: MIT
Fields of research: Economics, Workforce/Labor
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Stefano DellaVigna
Institution: University of Toronto (in partnership with UC Berkeley)
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow - Staff Associate: (Finance)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Wolfenzon
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, financial economics, corporate finance
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Predoctoral research fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Karen Macours and Kelsey Jack
Institution: Paris School of Economics
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics
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Full-Time Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Field: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship
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Predoctoral research assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Diane Alexander, Atul Gupta
Institution: Department of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Health care
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Data Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Winnie van Dijk, John Eric Humphries,
Institution: University of Virginia School of Law
Field(s) of Research: Crime
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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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Postdoctoral Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Yale University
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Full-Time Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Wolfenzon, Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Columbia University
Fields of Research: Corporate Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Mark Duggan
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of Research: Housing
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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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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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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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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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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 - 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 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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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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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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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 Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Sam Hanson
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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): 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring researcher: Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of Research: International Macroeconomics, Finance
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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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