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 may be found here. 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.

Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Jesse Shapiro
Institution: Brown University
Fields of Research:  Economics
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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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Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute, Social Sciences Department, Economics
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute, Social Sciences Department, Economics
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Full-Time Research Analyst I
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Thomas Kane
Institution: Harvard University, Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR)
Field(s) of Research: Education, Public Policy
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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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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Bill Evans
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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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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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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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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Staff Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Réka Juhász
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Anupam B. Jena
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Health Care Economics and Health Care Policy
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Full-Time Predoctoral Research Assistant / Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Christopher Palmer
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Household Finance, Public Economics, Financial 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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Policy Engagement Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Staff Associate: Economics
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jesse Schreger
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, Asian economics, and other areas
Institution: Columbia Business School
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Pre-doc Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Benjamin Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, Matthew Backus and Guo Xu
Field(s) of Research: Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
Institution: University of California Berkeley
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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 Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Please Apply at Link)
Field(s) of Research: General
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Arthur van Benthem
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, Energy and environmental economics, Behavioral and experimental economics
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bruce Meyer
Field(s) of Research: Poverty, Safety net, Inequality, Homelessness Institution: University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy (Comprehensive Income Dataset Project)
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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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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nathan Hendren
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Empirical Welfare Analysis
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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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Research Associate - Field Based
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Data Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India at Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lars Peter Hansen
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute Macro Finance Research (MFR) Program)
Fields of Research: 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
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman and Xavi Giné, Sean Higgins
Institution: Innovations for Poverty Action
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, Household finance
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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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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Judy Chevalier, Zack Cooper, Soheil Ghili, Kenneth Gillingham, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yusuke Narita, William Nordhaus, Cormac O’Dea, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Ebonya Washington, Kevin Williams, Seth Zimmerman    
Institution: Yale University
Fields of Research:  Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Summer Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago Energy & Environment Lab
Fields of Research: Energy and environmental economics
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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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Summer Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Fields of Research: Energy and environmental economics
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Timothy Layton, and Vilsa Curto, Michael McWilliams
Institution: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Fields of research: Health Economics
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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: Economics
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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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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management
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Full-time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tim Layton
Institution: Harvard University
Fields of Research: Health Economics, Public Finance
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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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nicola Bianchi
Fields of research: industrial organization, labor economics, and organizational economics
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg
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Pre-doc Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring researchers: Robert Collinson
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Fields of research: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Urban 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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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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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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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 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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(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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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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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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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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