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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.

Faculty Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Daniel Garrett, Marius Guenzel, Thomas Winberry
Sponsoring Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, public finance, behavioral finance
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Full-Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Daniela Scur and  Sarah Wolfolds
Sponsoring Institution: Cornell University
Fields of research: Organizational economics, strategy, and management science
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Sarah Baird (PI), Wolfgang Munar, and Jennifer Muz
Sponsoring Institution: Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University 
Fields of research: Public Health, Development
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Research Assistants / Research Fellowships
Sponsoring Institution: Predoctoral Program in Policy | NYU Wagner, Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, UChicago Harris, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
Fields of research: Public policy
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Staff Associate: Economics
Sponsoring Researchers: Jesse Schreger and other economics faculty
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, Asian economics, and other areas
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Anna Costello
Sponsoring Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Accounting
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Research Assistants and Field Coordinators
Sponsoring Institution: World Bank-Development Impact Evaluation (DIME)
Field of research: Impact evaluation, applied microeconomics
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Predoctoral and Doctoral Students Fellowships-Robert S McNamara Fellowships Program
Sponsoring Institution: World Bank–Development Economics (DEC)
Field of research: Development economics
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Pre-doctoral Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Benjamin Enke and Thomas Graeber
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard University
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Staff Associate: Management
Sponsoring Researchers: Adam Galinsky and other Management faculty
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics
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Predoctoral Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Nick Arnosti, Carri Chan, Jing Dong, Paul Glasserman, Hongyao Ma, Will Ma, Yash Kanoria, Fanyin Zheng, and others
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Business Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Machine Learning, Online Marketplaces, Operations Research, Quantitative Finance, Revenue Management, Statistics, Supply Chain
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Jackson Lu
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of research: Culture and globalization
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of research: Marketing, negotiation, organizations, management
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Lars Peter Hansen
Sponsoring Institution: Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Economics
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: Arthur van Benthem, Susanna Berkouwer, Corinne Low, Shing-Yi Wang
Sponsoring Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Fields of research: Development economics, energy and environmental economics, behavioral and experimental economics
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Full Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Sponsoring Institution: Yale University
Fields of research: Applied economics, development
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Full Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Tim Layton
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard University
Fields of research: Health economics, public finance
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Predoctoral Fellow (Staff Associate): Accounting
Sponsoring Researchers: Thomas Bourveau, Matthias Breuer, Wei Cai, Anne Heinrichs, Sehwa Kim, Lisa Liu, Robert Stoumbos, and others
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Accounting, corporate finance, econometrics, microeconomics, regulatory issues, information disclosure
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Predoctoral Fellow (Staff Associate): Management
Sponsoring Researchers: Mabel Abraham,  Eric Abrahamson, Vanessa Burbano, Bennett Chiles, Bo Cowgill, Jorge Guzman, Daniel Keum, Sandra Matz, Michael Mauskapf, Dan Wang
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Entrepreneurship, strategy, labor economics and policy, microeconomics, innovation, diversity and hierarchy in the workplace
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Matthew Baron
Sponsoring Institution: SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
Fields of research: Financial history, financial crises, banking
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Bruce Meyer
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Fields of research: Poverty, safety net, inequality, homelessness
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Pre-doctoral Researcher
Sponsoring Researcher: Michele Gelfand
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford University
Fields of research: Psychology, management
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Sendhil Mullainathan
Sponsoring Institution: Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
Field of research: Applied artificial intelligence
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Predoctoral Fellow (Staff Associate): Economics
Sponsoring Researchers: Matt Backus, Jesse Schreger, and other economics faculty
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, industrial organization, and other areas
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Constantine Yannelis
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Finance
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Program Coordinator
Sponsoring Researchers: Graeme Blair, Darin Christensen, Michael Ross
Sponsoring Institution: University of California Los Angeles, Project on Resource and Governance
Fields of research: Political economy, development economics, natural resources, randomized trials
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Lars Peter Hansen
Sponsoring Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute, The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Macroeconomics, finance
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Edward Miguel
Sponsoring Institution: UC Berkeley
Fields of research: rigorous evaluations of social and economic programs in Africa, with a focus on the Kenya Life Panel Survey project
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Research Specialist
Sponsoring Researcher: James J.  Heckman
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago Center for the Economics of Human Development
Fields of research: Human capital, labor economics, and the economics of education
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Research Associate

Sponsoring Researchers: Xavi Giné, Sean Higgins, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Sponsoring Institution: Innovations for Poverty Action
Fields of research: Development economics, household finance
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Tobin Center/Economics Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program
Sponsoring Researchers: Ian Ayres, Judy Chevalier, Zack Cooper, Soheil Ghili, Kenneth Gillingham, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yusuke Narita, William Nordhaus, Cormac O’Dea, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Ebonya Washington, Kevin Williams, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Seth Zimmerman
Sponsoring 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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