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 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): Magne Mogstad and Evan Rose
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Applied econometrics, labor, and public economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): 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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Leonardo Bursztyn
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Political Economics
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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): Richard Hornbeck
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, Economic History
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Pascal Noel and Eric Zwick
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, public economics, inequality, household finance, labor economics, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Koichiro Ito
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Domestic and international environmental policies, randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental research design, and structural estimation.
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): 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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lars Peter Hansen
Institution: Macro Finance Research Program, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Economic Dynamics, Computational Science, Stochastic Processes, and Finance
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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 Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Grant Miller
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, global health, and human rights
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shing-Yi Wang, Susanna Berkouwer, Arthur van Benthem
Institution: The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics, Energy and Environmental Economics
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Full-time Senior Research Specialists for AY24-25
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Leah Boustan, Ellora Derenoncourt, Henry Farber, David Lee
Institution: Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Labor 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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Nathaniel Hendren
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Economics, workforce/labor, macroeconomics
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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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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Leemore Dafny
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Health care Economics
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Pre-doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral economics, household finance
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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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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: John J. Donohue, Daniel Kessler, and Alison Morantz
Institution: Stanford Law School
Field(s) of Research: Crime economics, health economics, labor economics, occupational safety
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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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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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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 Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shaoda Wang
Institution: The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, environmental economics, and political economy
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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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Research Associate (Rolling), India Based
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 and public policy
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Gender Research Manager, Delhi-Based
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 and public policy
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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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Project Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Greenstone
Institution: The University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute & Urban Labs (Energy & Environment Lab)
Field(s) of Research: Energy/Environment/Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Luigi Zingales
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center
Field(s)of Research: Economics, Political Economy, Finance, Public Policy
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Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marco Di Maggio
Institution: Coinbase Institute
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Corporate Governance Fellows For Finance, Economics, and Accounting Researchers
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lucian Bebchuk
Institution: Harvard Law School, Program on Corporate Governance
Field(s) of Research: Corporate Governance
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Full-Time Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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(Pre-doctoral) 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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