2026 Summer Undergrad Corporate Intern: Economist

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

102d • $19 - $42

About The Position

The Internship Held over an 11-week period during the summer of 2026 for undergrad students graduating between December 2026 and August 2027. The paid internship will prepare associates for a career with Walmart Economics team. Work on a meaningful project, network with industry experts, and develop your skills while having an epic summer! As the Fortune One company, Walmart sells hundreds of billions of dollars a year in merchandise and employs more than one million people. Walmart's scale and the complexity of its problems necessitate careful, sophisticated analysis. The Walmart Economics team is responsible for applying the latest insights and methods from academia to drive Walmart's decision making and continued transformation. The Walmart Economics team is growing quickly. Economists on the team work with the Chief Economist on projects across the company, including: Optimizing pricing, Growing membership and subscriptions, Increasing our sustainability, Developing a thriving marketplace. Interns are fully immersed in the team and can expect to take on a short-term version or a component of a full-time project. You will partner with business and tech teams in our Home Office to use tools from Economics to understand the causal impact of decisions, identify and optimize tradeoffs, and drive strategy using first principles. Interns work on projects with real-world impact while gaining experience working at one of the largest companies in the world.

Requirements

• Must be actively enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program
• Expected graduation date between December 2026-August 2027
• Experience with analyzing large datasets (ideally coding in SQL, R, or Python) is a plus
• Passion for economics or experience assisting with academic research
• You're curious and a self-starter, naturally interested in learning more
• You're collaborative and uplift your team when you partner with others
• You enjoy hard problems
• You have knowledge of experimentation and causal inference methods
• Willingness to relocate to Walmart's Home Office Hub (Bentonville, AR) after graduation

Nice To Haves

• Preferred Majors: Economics, Math, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Other related majors in a quantitative field

Responsibilities

• Designing and analyzing experiments
• Guide decision making by ensuring we understand the impact of potential changes through careful experimentation
• Performing causal inference
• Leverage the latest in econometrics and statistics to understand the effect of changes we cannot run experimentally
• Framing and evaluating trade-offs
• Define and weigh business trade-offs to drive strategic decisions under uncertainty
• Applying behavioral economics
• Use an understanding of behavioral economics to inform user experience design

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Housing and relocation benefits for students that meet qualifications

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree