Research Assistant Positions – not at the NBER

This page provides links to full-time job listings associated with research projects led by NBER-affiliated researchers, but which do not involve employment through NBER. Similar positions that do involve NBER employment are posted. The positions listed below may be suitable for bachelor's degree candidates, graduate students, or post-docs. Positions typically have an expected duration of 1 to 3 years, and often give priority to candidates who are planning to continue to the next stage of their academic career upon completion of the position. This page does not include listings for jobs that utilize economic analysis for purposes other than academic research, such as postings for economics consulting firms and financial services firms. University career offices typically manage these job announcements.

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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel Kreindler, Ludwig Straub
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Emily Breza and Davide Viviano
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics and Econometrics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Erik Brynjolfsson
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Data Science and Tech Innovation, Labor
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Pre-Doctoral Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Bruce Meyer
Institution: The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Fields of Research: Comprehensice Income Dataset (CID) Project
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Data Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Chima Ndumele & Jacob Wallace
Institution: Yale University, School of Public Health
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, Health Policy, Medicaid Policy
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gian Luca Clementi
Institution: New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics
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Full-Time (Pre-Doc) Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Nina Harari, Sophie Calder-Wang
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Field(s) of Research: Applied Microeconomics, real estate, urban economics, household finance, public finance, industrial organization, development
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: John M. Barrios
Institution: Yale University, Tobin Center for Economic Policy
Field(s) of Research: Capital markets, regulatory economics, and labor economics
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Predoctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jacob Moscona
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Development, Environmental/Climate Change, Innovation, Political Economy, and Trade
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Elisa Rubbo
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, International Trade
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Research Professional – Market Shaping Accelerator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer, Rachel Glennerster, Christopher Snyder
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Climate change, biosecurity, and other pressing global challenges
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ralph Koijen
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Economics, Machine Learning
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Pre-Doctoral Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Andrew Garin
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
Field(s) of Research: Labor Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Devin Pope
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, Behavioral Science, Behavioral Economics
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James Stock
Institution: Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Field(s) of Research: Economics of the Auto Market,
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Anya Samek
Institution: University of California San Diego
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral economics, Education
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Rauh
Institution:Hoover Institution
Field(s) of Research: State & Local Economic Policy
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Rauh
Institution:Hoover Institution
Field(s) of Research: State & Local Economic Policy
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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Paul A. Gompers
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Entrepreneurship & Finance
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Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Stephan Heblich
Institution: University of Toronto, Department of Economics and Rotman School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Applied Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago, Climate Impact Lab
Field(s) of Research: Environment, Climate
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lisa B. Kahn
Institution: University of Rochester
Field(s) of Research: Labor Economics
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Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, EPIC Air Quality Fund
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: University of Chicago (but not a direct hire, will work with an EOR)
Field(s) of Research: Air Quality, Environment, Climate
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Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry
Institution: Global Poverty Research Lab, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: The University of Chicago, Energy & Environment Lab (E&E Lab)
Field(s) of Research: Environmental Economics
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jon Zinman, Filippo Mezzanotti
Institution: JPAL South Africa
Fields of Research: Entrepreneurship and small business initiatives in South Africa
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BFI China Postdoctoral Scholar
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shaoda Wang and Chang-Tai Hsieh
Institution: The University of Chicago, The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI)
Field(s) of Research: Chinese economy
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Gottlieb, Zarek Brot-Goldberg, and Maggie Shi
Institution: The University of Chicago, The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI)
Field(s) of Research: Economics of health
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chris Blattman
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics
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Research Assistant (Bridge Program)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Carlos Best
Institution: Columbia University, Department of Economics
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gordon M. Phillips
Institution: The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (position located in Cambridge, MA)
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Adrienne Sabety, Maya Rossin-Slater
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Health economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Notowidigdo
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Health, Microeconomic
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Nicole Maestas
Institution: Harvard Medical School; Dept. of Health Care Policy
Field(s) of research: Health, Labor, and Disability economics
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gabriel Kreindler
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Economic Development
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Antoinette Schoar
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Cryptocurrency, FinTech and Consumer Finance
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Starc, Craig Garthwaite
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of Research: Economics with an emphasis on healthcare
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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, Health
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Research Manager
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daron Acemoglu
Institution: JPAL South Asia at IFMR
Fields of Research: Economics, AI
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Elaine Hill
Institution: University of Rochester Health and Environmental Economics Lab
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics, Environmental Economics, Data Science
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Post Doctoral Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics at Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Economic research
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Staff Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Carlos Best, Jonathan Dingel, Pietro Tebaldi, Gautam Gowrisankaran
Institution: Columbia University, Department of Economics
Fields of Research: Economics
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Full time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amir Kermani
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Urban economics, trade and spatial, labor economics, public finance, and applied microeconomics.
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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): Margarita Tsoutsoura, Daniel Woflenzon
Institution: University of Copenhagen, Columbia Business School
Fields of Research: Corporate Finance
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ben Lockwood and Alex Rees-Jones
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
Fields of Research: Public and Behavioral Economics
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Judd Kessler and Corinne Low
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
Fields of Research: Labor, Gender and Experimental Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Orazio Attanasio, Steven Berry, Zack Cooper, Janet Currie, Eduardo Dávila, John Eric Humphries, Song Ma, Cormac O'Dea, Rohini Pande, Winnie van Dijk, Kevin Williams
Institution: Yale University, Tobin Center for Economic Policy,
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economic Theory, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Financial Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics
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Associate in Research/ Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Erica Field
Institution: Duke Development Economics Lab (DevLab@Duke), Department of Economics, Duke University
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Pre-Doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Palmer
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Macrofinance, asset pricing, household finance, corporate finance
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Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Beshears
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Empirical Research Fellow.
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): John J. Donohue
Institution: Stanford Law School.
Field(s) of Research:Crime Economics, Law and Economics, Public Policy
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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Kowalski, David Chan
Institution: University of Michigan
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics and Econometrics
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Research Professional (post-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Eric Budish
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Market Design
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Luigi Zingales
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center
Field(s) of Research: Political Economy, Finance, Public Policy
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rebecca Diamond, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato,
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Tax Policies
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rebecca Diamond
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Housing and Urban Economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dmitry Taubinsky, Na'ama Shenhav,Chen Lian
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Household Finance
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Full-time Senior Research Specialists for AY25-26
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zachary Bleemer, Leah Boustan, Ellora Derenoncourt, Simon Jäger, David Lee, Owen Zidar
Institution: Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
Field(s) of Research: Economics, labor economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Fields of Research: International Macroeconomics and Finance
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Pre-Doc
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Bill Evans
Sponsoring 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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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Nathaniel Hendren
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Economics, workforce/labor, macroeconomics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Simone Schaner
Institution: University of Southern California
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics and Gender
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Full-Time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dan Benjamin, David Cesarini, Patrick Turley, Alex Young
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field(s) of Research: Social-science genomics
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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Kevin Williams, Steven Berry
Institution: Yale University, Tobin Center for Economic Policy,
Fields of Research: Industrial organization
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Post-doctoral Fellow/Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University (in partnership with Yale University)
Field(s) of Research: Economic research
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Development Economics Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rohini Pande
Institution: Inclusion Economics at Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Economic research
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Research Data Analyst 2
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nano Barahona, Ben Handel, Jon Kolstad
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Economics (Health, Education, Environmental, Industrial Organization)
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Research Staff Associate - Management
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Sheena Iyengar
Institution: Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Statistics, Business, Accounting, Finance, Behavioral Science, Management and Operations
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Full-Time Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Field(s) of Research: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship
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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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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 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 Position (Bridge program in STEM)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alessandra Casella
Institution: Columbia University
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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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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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 X - Econ RA Listings.