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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Junior Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Robert Richmond
Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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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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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of Research: Race, discrimination, criminal justice system, and algorithms
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Pre-doctoral Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tim Layton
Institution: University of Virginia, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Field(s) of Research: Health economics, public economics, social insurance
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Katherine Casey
Institution: Stanford King Center on Global Development
Field(s) of Research: Development, Political Economy, Environmental, Data Science and Tech Innovation
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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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Notowidigdo, Heather Sarsons
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Microeconomics, labor, organizational economics, public economics, health
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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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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Seth Zimmerman, Barbara Biasi
Institution: The Broad Center at Yale SOM
Field(s) of Research: Economics of Education
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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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Economics Research Specialist (pre-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jonathan Zinman
Institution: Dartmouth College
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Development Economics, Applied Contract Theory
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zoe Cullen
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Labor Markets, Technology, Organizations, Inequality
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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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Research Professional (pre-doctoral)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lars Hansen, Anil Kashyap, Ralph Koijen, Amir Sufi, Eric Zwick
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
Field(s) of Research: Financial Economics
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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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Predoctoral Research Associates
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Taryn Dinkelman, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Kaboski
Institution: Building Inclusive Growth Lab at the University of Notre Dame
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics
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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Economics of Education
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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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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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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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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Shai Bernstein, Paul Gompers
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Entrepreneurship and venture capital in emerging ecosystems
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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): Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab
Field(s) of Research: Development economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Wolfram Schlenker
Institution: Harvard University, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Field(s) of Research: Environmental economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow Opportunities
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ran Abramitzky, Adrien Bilal, Nicholas Bloom, Michael Boskin, Ignacio Cuesta, Omer Karaduman, Benny Kleinman, Neale Mahoney, Melanie Morten, Amit Seru, Alessandra Voena, Shoshana Vasserman
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Field(s) of Research: Accounting, Behavioral, Data Science and Tech Innovation, Economic History, Education, Environmental, Finance, Health, Labor, Macroeconomics, Marketing, Microeconomics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Public Policy, Statistics and Econometrics
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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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jonathan Weigel and Augustin Bergeron
Institution: University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Finance
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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sara Moreira
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics, industrial organization, innovation, labor economics, organizational economics
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rema Hanna
Institution: Harvard Center for International Development
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Environmental Economics
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Research Design Manager
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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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Pallais
Institution: Harvard University
Fields of Research: Labor 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): Arthur van Benthem and Susanna Berkouwer
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
Fields of Research: Energy and Environmental/Development Economics
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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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Predoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Eduardo Dávila
Institution: Yale University, Tobin Center for Economic Policy,
Fields of Research: Macro-Financial Policy, Macroeconomics, Finance, Welfare 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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rodrigo Adao and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Macro and international 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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Research and Communications 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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Pre-doctorall Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: 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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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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Empirical Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Matsa, Jacopo Ponticelli, Filippo Mezzanotti, Carola Frydman, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Konstantin Milbradt, Dean Karlan
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Finance Department
Field(s) of Research: Finance
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Senior Research Specialists (pre-doctoral fellows)
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Henrik Kleven, Ilyana Kuziemko
Institution: Princeton University, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies
Field(s) of Research: Public Finance, income and wealth inequality, entrepreneurship, gender equality, regional economic development, political economy, and the analysis of tax subsidies on the housing market and social insurance policies
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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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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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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Manasi Deshpande, Magne Mogstad, and Evan Rose
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), University of Chicago
Fields of Research: Labor economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rachel Glennerster, Christopher Snyder
Institution: University of Chicago
Fields of Research: 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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Stanford GSB Research Fellows Program
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Rebecca Diamond, Claudia Allende Santa Cruz, Susan Athey, Matteo Maggiori
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Economic Analysis and Policy
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dean Karlan, Jacopo Ponticelli, Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Development economics, Household finance, Corporate 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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Senior Research Specialist (Full-Time Research Assistant)
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Gene Grossman, Eduardo Morales, Stephen Redding
Institution: Princeton University, International Economics Section (IES)
Field(s) of Research: International Trade, Macroeconomics
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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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Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Adrienne Sabety, Maria Polyakova
Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Health economics, applied microeconomics
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Full-Time (Pre-Doc) Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): nJoseph 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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Program Manager and Research Coordinator
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): James J Heckman
Institution: University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Fertility decline and its socioeconomic impacts
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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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Simon Johnson
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Fields of Research: Economics, Workforce/Labor, Education
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Fields of Research: Economics, Education
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Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nikhil Agarwal
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Fields of Research: Economics, AI, Health Care
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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 Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rafaella Sadun
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of research: Economics
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Post-Graduate Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Mushfiq Mobarak
Institution: Yale’s Research Initiative on Innovation & Scale (Y-RISE)
Field(s) of Research: Development economics focused on scaling interventions in low-income countries
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LEO 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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Predoctoral Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Kaboski
Institution: University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s):Arthur van Benthem and Susanna Berkouwer
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)
Field(s) of Research: Energy and Environmental/Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Fields of Research: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, US Administrative Tax Data
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Social Sciences Researcher
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Anya Samek
Institution: Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science, Political Economy, Public Policy, Education
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Oeindrila Dube
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Economics, Political Economy, Big Data
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Roberto Rigobon
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Accounting, Finance, Sustainable Finance
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Post-Doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Roberto Rigobon, Mert Demirer
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Environmental and Ecological Economics
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Research Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Chiara Farronato and Michael Luca
Institution: Harvard University, Digital, Data, and Design Institute
Field(s) of Research: Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joshua Gottlieb, Matt Notowidigdo, Zarek Brot-Goldberg, and Maggie Shi
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Health economics
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Full-time Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researchers: Leila Agha
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Fields of Research: Health Economics, Machine Learning
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Pre-doctoral Research Assistant
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sydnee Caldwell & Alexandre Mas
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Labor
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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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Predoctoral Research Assistant Positions
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Kurt Lavetti
Institution: Ohio State University
Field(s) of Research: health economics, labor economics, racial health disparities
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Research Specialist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Johannes Haushofer
Institution: Busara Centre for Behavioral Economics, Nairobi, Kenya
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellows
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gordon Hanson and Dani Rodrik
Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of Research: Regional dimensions of inequality in the United States and other countries
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Benjamin Enke and Anke Becker
Institution: Harvard University
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral Economics and Political Economy
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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): Chris Blattman
Institution: Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Development Economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Damon Jones
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago
Field(s) of Research: Social inequality
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Junior Research Scientist
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Johannes Stroebel, Robert Engle, Viral Acharya
Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Finance, Climate Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Catherine Wolfram, Mert Demirer
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Industrial organization, environmental economics, and energy economics
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Research Professional
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Alex Imas
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral Economics
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Associate Director of Research Operations
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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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Thesmar & Emil Verner
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Economics/ Finance/ Macroeconomics
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Doyle
Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Applied microeconomics
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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 Research Fellowship
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Giulia Brancaccio, Christopher Conlon, Michael J. Dickstein
Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business
Field(s) of Research: Industrial Organization; Health Economics; Environmental Economics; Transportation Economics
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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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Research Staff Associate
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Stiglitz
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of Research: empirical and theoretical research on sovereign debt, the emergence, propagation, and resolution of sovereign debt crises
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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 Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Ewens
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field(s) of research: Financial economics and gender
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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
Link for Job Posting (reference number: JR00082351)

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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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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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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Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Leemore Dafny
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field(s) of Research: Health care 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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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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Predoctoral Research Fellow
NBER Sponsoring Researcher: Zack Cooper
Institution: Yale University
Field(s) of Research: Health Economics
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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