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Opportunities

Participating universities and research institutions offer a variety of post-baccalaureate opportunities, including staff positions, positions for non-matriculated graduate students, and academic appointments. All of the positions below are full-time and require a bachelor’s degree by the position’s start date. The postings below are not PREDOC consortium positions, but are positions at each university or institution, and job seekers must separately apply to each posting to be considered. Job seekers in need of reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should contact the institution directly.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Full Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Lauren Cohen
Sponsoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Fields of research: Innovation, intellectual property
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Summer Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Greenstone
Sponsoring Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Fields of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Christopher Blattman
Sponsoring Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Development economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Abigail Sussman and Oleg Urminsky
Sponsoring Institution: Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Marketing, psychology, behavioral economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: John List
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Charitable giving, education, labor, discrimination, behavioral economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Kremer
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Development, innovation
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Full-Time Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Matthew Denes, Spyros Lagaras, Margarita Tsoutsoura
Institution: Carnegie Mellon/Cornell
Fields of research: Corporate finance, entrepreneurship
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Research Associate
Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of research: Strategy, entrepreneurial management
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Research Associate
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Finance
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Full-Time (Pre-Doc) Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Joseph Gyourko, Gilles Duranton, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys,  Jessie Handbury, Nina Harari, Sophie Calder-Wang
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Fields of research: Applied Microeconomics, real estate, urban economics, household finance, public finance, industrial organization, development
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Claudia Steinwender, Jing Li, Namrata Kala, Charles Angelucci, Mert Demirer
Sponsoring Institution: Sloan School of Management, MIT
Field of research: Applied economics
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Zoe Cullen
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Antoinette Schoar and Jonathan Parker
Sponsoring Institution: Sloan School of Management, MIT
Field of research: Finance
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Pre-Doctoral Researchers
Sponsoring Institution: Stern School of Business, New York University
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Research Scientist
Sponsoring Researcher: Shan Ge
Sponsoring Institution: Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University
Fields of research: Corporate and household finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Ran Abramitzky, David Chan, Pascaline Dupas, Marcel Fafchamps, Matthew Gentzkow, Gopi Shah Goda, Andrew Hall, Eric Hanushek, Colleen Honigsberg, Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Amit Seru, Shoshana Vasserman
Sponsoring Institution: SIEPR, Stanford University
Fields of research: Education, immigration, health, work, finance, policy, trade, housing, technology
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
Sponsoring Researchers: Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang
Sponsoring Institution: The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, The Kennedy School, Harvard University
Fields of research: Race, discrimination, criminal justice
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Torben Andersen, Viktor Todorov, Ravi Jagannathan
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 
Fields of Research: Empirical Asset Pricing
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Jacopo Ponticelli, Sean Higgins
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 
Fields of Research: Finance and development
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Anthony DeFusco, Filippo Mezzanotti
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 
Fields of Research: Empirical corporate, household finance
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Sean Higgins
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 
Fields of Research: FinTech, finance, development
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Kent Smetters
Sponsoring Institution: Penn Wharton Budget Model, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of research: Public Policy Economics, Macroeconomics, Microsimulation, Demographic Economics, Health Economics, International Economics, Environmental Economics
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Full-Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Dan Benjamin (University of California, Los Angeles), Miles Kimball (University of Colorado Boulder), Ori Heffetz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Kristen Cooper (Gordon College)
Sponsoring Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Full-Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Amanda E. Kowalski
Sponsoring Institution: University of Michigan
Fields of research: Health economics and applied economics
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Pre-Doctoral Stanford Law Empirical Research Fellowship
Sponsoring Researchers: John J. Donohue, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Ho, Daniel Kessler, and Alison Morantz
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Law School
Fields of research: Empirical legal and social science research
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Amanda Pallais
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard University
Field of research: Labor economics
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Empirical Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researcher: Artem Timoshenko
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of research: Operations research, machine learning, quantitative marketing
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Empirical Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Maria Ibañez
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of research: Health economics, operations, applied microeconomics
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Empirical Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Matthew Lyle, Danqui Hu, Aaron Yoon
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of research: Accounting, applied econometrics
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Empirical Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Anna Tuchman, Brett Gordon, Caio Waisman
Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, quantitative marketing
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Behavioral Research Fellows
Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of research: Social psychology, organizational behavior, behavioral marketing, behavioral economics
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Project Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Energy & Environment Lab
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field of research: Environmental policy
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Ali Hortaçsu, Chad Syverson
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Field of research: The BFI IO initiative sponsors projects in all areas connected to the economics of industry.
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Predoctoral Fellowship
Institution: University of Virginia Department of Economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Sendhil Mullainathan
Institution: Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Applied artificial intelligence
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Amy Finkelstein
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field of research: Health economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Zhiguo He, John Heaton, and other Finance faculty
Institution: Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Financial Economics
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Senior Research Specialist
Sponsoring Researchers: Economics and Finance faculty
Institution: Princeton University
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, finance, public policy
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Judy Chevalier, Zack Cooper, Soheil Ghili, Kenneth Gillingham, Yusuke Narita, Cormac O’Dea, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Ebonya Washington, Kevin Williams, Seth Zimmerman
Institution: Yale University
Fields of research: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Rearchers: Azeem Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Projects related to econometric theory
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Jonathan Dingel, Felix Tintelnot
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Fields of research: International economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Luigi Zingales
Institution: Stigler Center, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Economics, finance, political economy, public policy
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Full-Time Predoctoral Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: MIT Sloan Faculty
Institution: Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of research: Open to all fields
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Full-Time Senior Research Specialist for AY21-22
Sponsoring Researcher: Owen Zidar
Institution: Princeton University
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, public finance
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EPIC Predoctoral Fellowship
Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Field of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Full-Time Pre-doctoral Research Associates
Sponsoring Researchers: Simon Jäger (MIT), Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley)
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of research: Labor, macroeconomics
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Term Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Dan Benjamin (UCLA), David Cesarini (New York University), David Laibson (Harvard)
Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Field of research: Genoeconomics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Matteo Maggiori
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of research: International macroeconomics and finance
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Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Institution: The Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Economics Department, Yale University
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Research Assistants
Institution: The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Fields of research: Finance, macroeconomics, regional economics
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Research Assistants
Institution: The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, labor economics, urban economics, finance, macroeconomics, regional economics
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Research Assistants
Institution: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Fields of research: Finance, macroeconomics, monetary policy, international finance, financial stability, payment systems, supervision and regulation of banks, and consumer and community affairs
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring researcher: Alessandra Voena
Institution: SIEPR, Stanford University
Fields of research: Labor, Development
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring researcher: Neale Mahoney
Institution: SIEPR, Stanford University
Fields of research: Health economics, consumer finance
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Full-Time Research Professionals
Sponsoring researchers: Hans Christensen, Joao Granja, Christian Leuz, Mark Maffett, Charlie McClure, Mike Minnis, Maximilian Muhn, Valeri Nikolaev, Thomas Rauter
Institution: Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Accounting
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