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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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Weil
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of research: Labor standards violations, fissuring, and strategic enforcement
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande(Gender Portfolio)
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Ewens
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of research: Financial economics and gender
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Cecilia Parlatore
Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Finance
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Research Fellow (post-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Eric Budish
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kent A. Clark Center for Global Marketsl
Field(s) of research: Market Design
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John J. Donohue and Alison Morantz
Field(s) of Research: Crime economics, health economics, labor economics, disability
Institution: Stanford Law School
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Predoctoral Fellow / Research Staff Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tania Babina, Michael Ewens, Kent Daniel, Xavier Giroud, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Laura Veldkamp and Daniel Wolfenzon
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of research: Financial economics
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Full-Time (Pre-Doc) Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Gyourko, Gilles Duranton, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Jessie Handbury, Nina Harari, Sophie Calder-Wang
Field(s) 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 Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Trevon D. Logan
Institution: The Ohio State University
Field(s) of Research: Economics, quantitative social sciences, economic history, racial inequality
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Research Associate/Predoctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bill Evans
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Raffaella Sadun, Alberto Cavallo, Chiara Farronato
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Economics, quantitative social sciences
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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Economics, econometrics, reskilling initiatives
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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chiara Farronato
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Economics, business and operating model transformation
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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alberto Cavallo
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Macroeconomics, pricing
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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alberto Cavallo
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Microeconomics, pricing
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Ralph Koijen
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, Machine learning, Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bruce Meyer
Institution: University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Field(s) of Research: Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID) Project
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Associate in Research/ Pre Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Erica Field
Institution: Duke University
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Mert Demirer, Michael Rubens
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Industrial organization
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Philipp Schnabl, Alexi Savov
Institution: NYU Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macro-finance, financial intermediation, asset pricing
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Lerner, Victoria Ivashina
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, economics, private capital, impact investing
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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Leemore Dafny
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Health care Economics
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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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shaoda Wang
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Research Assistant
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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Predoctoral Research Fellowships
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Hunt Allcott, Laurence Baker, Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Thomas Dee, Matthew Gentzkow, Omer Karaduman, Daniel Kessler, Neale Mahoney, Grant Miller, Maria Polyakova, Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater, Josh Rauh, Natalie Serna Borrero, Amit Seru, Shoshana Vasserman, Chenzi Xu
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of Research: Economics, Development, Energy and Environment, Finance, Healthcare, Inequality, Microeconomics, Public Policy, Poverty, Statistics and Econometrics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Marcella Alsan
Institution:Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, Inequality
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Research Analyst for State and Local Government Initiative
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Josh Rauh
Institution: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: International Economics
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Globalization Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Treb Allen, Davin Chor
Institution: Dartmouth College
Field(s) of Research: International Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Gottlieb and Jonathan Dingel
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Matsa, Jacopo Ponticelli, Carola Frydman and Gregor Matvos
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Finance Department
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nicola Bianchi
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Applied micro, labor economics, industrial organization, organizational economics
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Argente, Lauren Bergquist, Zack Cooper, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, John Eric Humphries, Amit Khandelwal, Mushfiq Mobarak, Song Ma, Christopher Neilson, Cormac O'Dea, Rohini Pande, Winnie van Dijk, Diana Van Patten and Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Tobin Center and Department of Economics at Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Accounting, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economic Theory, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Finance, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Marketing, Operations, Organizational Behavior, Public Economics
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Research Data Analyst Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Charles Manski
Institution: Northwestern University, Department of Economics
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Public Heath
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bradley Shapiro
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Quantitative Marketing
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Project Associate, Energy & Environment Lab
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Urban Labs and The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Energy and Environment Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sendhil Mullainathan
Institution: Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Healthcare, criminal justice, behavioral economics, and social science
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Staff Associate: Economics Division
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tommaso Porzio, Chris Moser
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Public Finance, Urban And Spatial Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Juan Camilo Castillo and Pinar Yildirim
Institution: Economics Department and Marketing Department, Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Industrial organization, online platforms, and the digital economy
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Suresh Naidu
Institutions: Columbia University, ETH Zurich, University of Illinois
Field(s) of Research: applied microeconomics, data science
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Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Research and Communications Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Felix Tintelnot
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Spatial economics, international trade, economic growth, multinational production, and economic geography
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Research Professional(pre-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zhiguo He, John Heaton and other finance faculty
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Zack Cooper
Institution: Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Augustin Bergeron
Institution: University of Southern California
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho
Institution: Stanford University, Regulation, Evaluation, & Governance Lab
Field(s) of Research: Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Public Policy
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Data Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho
Institution: Stanford University, Regulation, Evaluation, & Governance Lab
Field(s) of Research: Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Public Policy
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer and Taha Choukhmane
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Asset pricing, household and consumer finance, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, and micro-econometrics
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Capital markets, corporate finance, macro-finance, household finance, and micro-econometrics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Scott Nelson, Winnie van Dijk
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, Public Policy
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Corporate finance, capital markets, macro-finance, entrepreneurial finance, household finance
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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): Fiona Burlig
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Energy, the environment, development, and agriculture.
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Climate Impact Lab at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Energy, the environment, and climate change.
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh
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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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato and Becky Lester
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Public Economics, Public Finance, Environmental Economics, Business Taxation
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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: Experimental economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Susan Athey, Rebecca Diamond, Guido Imbens, Matteo Maggiori, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Accounting; Economics; Finance; Marketing; Operations, Information & Technology; Organizational Behavior; and Political Economy
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Bill Evans
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dan Benjamin, David Cesarini
Institution: The University of California, Los Angeles
Field(s) of Research: Social-science genomics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: International Macroeconomics and Finance
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Research Project Manager (post-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: John J. Donohue
Institution: Stanford Law School
Field(s) of Research: Crime economics, randomized controlled trials
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Senior Research Specialist (Full-Time Research Assistant)
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Mark Aguiar, Gene Grossman, Eduardo Morales, Stephen Redding, Ezra Oberfield
Institution: Princeton University, International Economics Section (IES)
Field(s) of Research: International Trade, Macroeconomics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow/Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Amy Finkelstein
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Field(s) of Research: Healthcare
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Amy Finkelstein
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Healthcare
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Alberto Cavallo
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: EconomicsResearch Manager
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Predoctoral Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Atif Mian, Ernest Liu
Institution: Princeton University, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
Field(s) of Research: Empirical macrofinance, macroeconomics, finance, policy
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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Jesse Shapiro
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Angrist, David Autor, Parag Pathak
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Workforce/Labor, Education
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Pre-Doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Richard Portes
Institution: London Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics and Financial economics
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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Strategy, Economics, Finance
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Melanie Wasserman, Chris Poliquin, Jennifer Kao
Institution: The University of California, Los Angeles
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, with emphasis on health, labor, and organizational
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Kilian Huber
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, Finance
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Research & Policy Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Energy and Environment
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Kowalski
Institution: University of Michigan
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics and Econometrics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Maria Polyakova
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Health economics, applied microeconomics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Institution: Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics
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Research Position (Bridge program in STEM)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alessandra Casella
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Theresa Kuchler and Johannes Stroebel
Institution: NYU Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Empirical Economics, Social Networks, Inequality
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Postdoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School of Public Policy and Economics
Field(s) of Research: Development/Energy/
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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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Post-doctoral Fellow/Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
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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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Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Coinbase Institute
Field(s) of Research: 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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(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
Institution: Princeton University, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
Field(s) of Research: Applied Macroeconomics, Finance
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Pre-doc Research Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Ali Yurukoglu
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Political Economics, Finance
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