Research Assistant Positions – not at the NBER
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Cecilia Parlatore and Arpit Gupta
Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business
Field (s) of Research: Economics, Finance
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Predoctoral Research Analyst (2 positions)
Sponsoring Researchers: Arthur van Benthem, Susanna Berkouwer and Shing-Yi Wang
Fields of Research: Energy and Environmental Economics, Development Economics
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
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Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Research Scholar
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Angrist
Institution: Tufts University
Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John J. Donohue, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Ho, Daniel Kessler, and Alison Morantz
Institution: Stanford Law School
Field(s) of Research: economics, political science, applied math, public policy, statistics, and computer science
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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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Felix Tintelnot
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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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Jesse Shapiro
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Applied microeconomics
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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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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Dean Yang Institution: University of Michican
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics related to COVID-19, HIV/AIDS stigma, and the impacts of natural disasters
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Project Policy Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Stefano DellaVigna and Dmitry Taubinsky
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alexi Savov, Philipp Schnabl
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Macroeconomics
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Strategy
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Raffaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management, Finance, Marketing, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets, and Organizational Behavior
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Data/Economic Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak
Institution: Avela Education
Field of Research: Market Design, Labor, Education
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Chan
Institution: Stanford University
Field of Research: Applied microeconomics focusing on health care and productivity
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Full-Time Research Assistant (summer 2022)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Benjamin, Miles Kimball, Ori Heffetz
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field of Research: Behavioral Economics
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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) 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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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2)
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
Sponsoring Researcher: Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute Development Innovation Lab)
Fields of Research: Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bradley Shapiro and Sarah Moshary
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Marketing, industrial organizations, health care
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Kellogg Strategy Research Fellow 2022
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Nicola Bianchi
Institution: Northwestern University
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, Labor economics, Applied macroeconomics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
Sponsoring Researchers: Laurence Baker, Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Rebecca Diamond, Daniel Fetter, David Grusky, Bradley Larsen, Chenzi Xu, Melanie Morten, Maria Polyakova, Maya Rossin-Slater, Petra Persson, Adrien Auclert, Isaac Sorkin, Amit Seru, Shoshanna Vasserman, Claudia Allende Santa Cruz, Alessandra Voena, Frank Wolak
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of Research: Education, Energy & Environment, Global Development & Trade, Health, Housing & Infrastructure, Inequality, Innovation & Technology, Money & Finance, Politics & Media, Regulation & Competition, Taxes & Public Spending, Work
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Notowidigdo
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, healthcare, social insurance programs
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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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Full-Time Predoctoral Research Fellow/Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Steven Berry, Zack Cooper, Ebonya Washington, Costas Arkolakis, and Joseph Altonji
Institution: The Tobin Center at the Yale Economics Department
Field(s) of Research: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education, Public Policy
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow(s)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu, Elliott Ash
Institution: Columbia University and ETH Zurich
Field(s) of Research: law and economics, political economy, text as data
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jesse Rothstein
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Research: labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy
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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (Energy & Environment Lab)
Fields of Research: Energy and environmental economics
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Postdoctoral Scholar (Summer 2022 start)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Benjamin
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field(s) of Research: Social-science genomics
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Statistical Genetics (Summer 2022 start)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Benjamin
Field(s) of Research: Statistical Genetics
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Weber
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Magne Mogstad, Thibaut Lamadon
Institution: University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI)
Field(s) of Research: Applied econometrics, labor and public economics
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Pre-doctoral research fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher (s): Matthew Gentzkow
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Rural Livelihoods Policy Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Gender and Governance Research & Policy Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Field(s) of Research: Economic research and public policy
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Zack Cooper, Steve Berry, Fiona Scott Morton
Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Public Economics, Health Economics, IO
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Predoctoral Research Fellow - Staff Associate: (Finance)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Xavier Giroud, Wei Jiang, Michaela Pagel and other faculty
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: Finance, financial economics, applied econometrics, asset pricing, corporate finance
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Policy Research
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Thomas McGuire
Field(s) of Research: Health Care Policy, Economics
Institution: Harvard Medical School
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Pre-doctoral research assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher (s): Hunt Allcott
Institution: Microsoft Research
Field(s) of Research:Applied microeconomics, industrial organization, machine learning, public economics, behavioral economics, media economics
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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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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Will Dobbie, David Arnold, Peter Hull
Institution: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Race, Discrimination, Algorithmic Bias, Machine Learning
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Senior Research Specialist I
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Atif Mian
Institution: Princeton University, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
Fields: finance, macroeconomics and policy
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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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Full-Time Research Professional (pre-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): 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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Predoctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Fiona Burlig
Fields of Research(s): Energy & Environmental Economics
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Eric Budish, Jonathan Dingel, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Jacob Leshno, Pascal Noel, Christina Patterson, Elisa Rubbo, Joseph Vavra, Constantine Yannelis, Anthony Lee Zhang, Eric Zwick
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Public economics, inequality, development, labor economics, macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, behavioral economics, household finance, market design, financial intermediation, trade, education
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Luigi Zingales
Fields of Research(s): Economics, Finance, Political Economy, Public Policy
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Asim Khwaja
Fields of Research(s): Governance, public finance, skill development and labor economics
Institution: Harvard University, Kennedy School
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Pre-doc Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shoshana Vasserman
Fields of Research(s): Industrial organization and applied microeconomics.
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
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Predoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Heckman (Do Not Contact, Apply at Link)
Institution: University of Chicago, Center for the Economics of Human Development
Field(s) of Research: Health, Education, and Welfare
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Geruso
Institution: University of Texas at Austin (Department of Economics and Population Research Center)
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Demography/Population Science, Public Policy
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Statistician III
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Mary Beth Landrum
Institution: Harvard Medical School
Fields of Research(s): Health Care 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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SFS Post-Doc Position
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Antoinette Schoar
Institution: Society for Financial Studies
Field(s) of Research: Finance/Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford GSB
Field(s) of Research: International Macroeconomics and Finance
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Christian Leuz
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Mathematical modeling
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Bill Evans
Sponsoring 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): Thomas Kane
Institution: Harvard University, Center for Education Policy Research
Field(s) of Research: Education
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Research Fellows
Sponsoring Researchers: Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, David Autor, and/or Daron Acemoglu
Institution: School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) at MIT
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Staff Associate: Economics Division
NBER Sponsoring researcher(s): Ashley Swanson and Laura Boudreau
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, Industrial organization, Public Finance
Institution: Columbia Business School
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Postdoctoral Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher R. Knittel
Field(s) of Research: Energy and environmental economics, Engineering
Institution: MIT
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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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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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Senior Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher Annamaria Lusardi
Institution: The George Washington University, GFLEC
Field(s) of Research: Financial literacy research, policy, and solutions
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Pre-Doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher (s): Richard Portes
Institution: AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School
Field(s) of Research: Economics and Financial economics
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Jacopo Ponticelli and Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Empirical Economics and Industrial Organization
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: IO
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Research Associate – Data Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Till von Wachter
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, The California Policy Lab
Field(s) of Research: Homelessness, criminal justice, poverty, education, and labor
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Staff Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Adam Sacarny
Institution: Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Field(s) of Research: Health economics, public economics, health policy
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham
Institution: Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, labor economics
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Karen K. Lewis
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
Institution: The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, (Wharton School)
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Thomas Winberry
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, public finance, investment dynamics, and behavioral corporate finance
Institution: The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, (Wharton School)
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Research Data Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Amir Kermani, (Do Not Contact, Please Apply at Link)
Field(s) of Research: General
Institution: UC Berkeley, Fisher Center for Real Estate at the Haas School of Business
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Research Intern (Pre-doctoral fellow)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Henry Siu, and other economics faculty
Field(s) of Research: Development economics: labor markets and firms, Social integration, Environmental Economics, and other areas
Institution: Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research (CIDER), VSE, UBC
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Predoctoral Fellow (Staff Associate)
Sponsoring researchers: Matt Backus, Jesse Schreger, and other economics faculty
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, industrial organization, and other areas
Institution: Columbia Business School
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Research Economist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Annamaria Lusardi
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Household Finance, Financial Literacy
Institution: The George Washington University, The Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)
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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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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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Full Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Institution: Yale University
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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): John List
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute Chicago Experiments Initiative )
Fields of Research: Economics
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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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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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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Azeem Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan
Institution: University of Chicago (Becker Friedman Institute)
Fields of Research: Projects related to econometric theory
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joe Kaboski, Taryn Dinkelman
Institution: University of Notre Dame (Department of Economics)
Fields of Research: Development Economics, Macroeconomics
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(Pre-doctoral) Full-Time Senior Research Specialist I (multiple openings) for AY21-22
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Atif Mian, Moritz Lenel, Adrien Matray, Natalie Marie Bachas, and others
Field(s) of Research: Applied Macroeconomics, Finance
Institution: Princeton University, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associates
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Benjamin Schoefer and Simon Jaeger
Institution: MIT
Fields of Research: Labor Markets
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring researcher: Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of Research: International Macroeconomics, Finance
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Research Assistant (pre-doctoral)
Sponsoring Researchers: Kevin Milligan, Raffaele Saggio, Matt Lowe, Giovanni Gallipoli, Patrick Baylis, Victor Couture, Jesse Perla
Institution: University of British Columbia
Fields of Research: Labor, Macro, Environmental, Development, Political Economy, Applied Micro, Trade, Urban
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Research 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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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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Additional information on post-baccalaureate research positions that may provide pathways to graduate study in economics may be found at https://predoc.org/. Another resource for research assistant jobs in economics is Twitter - Econ RA Listings.