Senior Research Specialist
About The Position
Prof. Gianluca Violante (Princeton University) is seeking one Senior Research Specialist to work on research supporting the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project. The aim of the GRID Project is to assemble an open-access international database that provides a large collection of micro statistics on income inequality and income dynamics at the individual level. All statistics in the database are computed from administrative records on earnings histories for each country and harmonized to ensure cross-country comparability. Currently, the Project includes 20+ countries, with further expansions planned over the coming years. Note that this is a remote position, but the individual must be eligible to work in the US. This is a one-year term position.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Strong quantitative skills and experience with coding and empirical research methods.
- Candidates with prior research experience are strongly preferred, particularly those with programming experience in Stata, SAS, R, and/or Python.
- Applicants need not be Economics majors, but they should have a strong interest in, and some exposure to, Economics.
- Must be eligible to work in the US.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Independent data collection, cleaning and analysis with little to no supervision
- Project management (organizing logistics of experiments & data collection)
- Developing experiment designs and data collection tools independently
- Admin support for GRID project
- Creation of presentations, editing of research papers, drafting of briefings, and potentially co-authoring research with the project directors.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
