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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.

If interested, please use the sign-up form to be emailed directly when positions in your field of interest open. You can learn more about these fields here.

Empirical Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Eric Anderson
Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management 
Field of research: Applied micro, quantitative marketing, pricing strategy, artificial intelligence
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Project Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Field of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow--Staff Associate: (Economics)
Sponsoring researcher: Conor Walsh
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Finance, financial economics, applied econometrics, asset pricing, corporate finance
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring researcher: Bruce Meyer
Institution: The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Fields of research: Poverty, safety net, inequality, homelessness
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researcher: Michael Weber
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Finance, economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Big Data Initiative - Azeem Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan, Alex Torgovitsky, and Guillaume Pouliot
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Field of research: Econometric theory
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Magne Mogstad, Thibaut Lamadon, and Evan Rose
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Fields of research: Applied econometrics, labor and public economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Field of research: Development economics
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Full-Time Senior Research Specialist
Sponsoring researchers: Mark Aguiar, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene Grossman, Ezra Oberfield, Eduardo Morales, Stephen Redding
Institution: Princeton University, International Economics Section
Fields of research: International trade, international macroeconomics
Job Posting (Requisition No. 2021-13555) 

Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring researcher: Matthew Gentzkow
Institution: Stanford University
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics
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Research Associate
Sponsoring researcher: Ray Kluender
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Alex Imas and Avner Strulov-Shlain
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Behavioral economics, marketing
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Günter Hitsch
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Business analytics, quantitative marketing, industrial organization
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Research Professional
Sponsoring researchers: Giovanni Compiani and Avner Strulov-Shlain
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Marketing
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Predoctoral Research Analyst
Sponsoring researchers: Arthur van Benthem, Susanna Berkouwer
Institution: The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Fields of research: Development economics, energy and environmental economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow--Staff Associate: Finance
Sponsoring researchers: Xavier Giroud, Wei Jiang, Michaela Pagel, Tania Babina, Yiming Ma, Oliver Darmouni, and other faculty. 
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Finance, financial economics, applied econometrics, asset pricing, corporate finance
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Research Fellow
Sponsoring researcher: Marcella Aslan
Institution: Harvard University Kennedy School
Fields of research: Health economics, public policy
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Sponsoring researchers: Will Dobbie, David Arnold, Peter Hull
Institution: Harvard University Kennedy School, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Fields of research: Race, discrimination, algorithmic bias, machine learning
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Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: UNC Tax Center / Jeffrey Hoopes, John Gallemore, Stephen Glaeser 
Institution: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Fields of research: Taxation, public economics, public policy, accounting
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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Sponsoring Researcher: Nathaniel Hendren
Institution: Harvard/Policy Impacts
Fields of research: Public policy, welfare, social mobility, economics
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Pre-Doctoral Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Eyal Frank
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Fields of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Senior Research Specialist
Sponsoring Researcher: Atif Mian
Institution: SPIA-Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, Princeton University
Fields of research: Finance, macroeconomics, policy
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field of research: Empirical finance research generalist
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researcher: Sean Higgins
Institution:  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: FinTech, finance, development
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Anthony DeFusco, Filippo Mezzanotti, David Matsa
Institution:  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: Empirical corporate and household finance
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Jacopo Ponticelli, Sean Higgins
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Fields of research: Finance and development
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Pre-Doctoral Empirical Research Associate
Sponsoring Researchers: Torben Andersen, Viktor Todorov, Ravi Jagannathan
Institution: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Field of research: Empirical asset pricing
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Research Specialist
Sponsoring Researcher: Christina Brown
Institution: University of Chicago, Department of Economics 
Field of research: Development, labor, education
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Full-Time Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researcher: Joseph Gyourko, Gilles Duranton, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Jessie Handbury, Nina Harari, and Sophie Calder-Wang
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Field of research: Applied microeconomics, real estate, urban economics, household finance, public finance, development
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Pre-doctoral Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Fiona Burlig
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Field of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Koichiro Ito
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Field of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Greenstone
Institution: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
Field of research: Energy and environmental economics
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Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researchers: David Laibson (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Harvard Business School) 
Institution: Harvard University, Economics Department
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Senior Research Specialists
Sponsoring Researchers: Industrial Relations Section Faculty
Institution: Princeton University
Field of research: Industrial relations, economics
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Research Assistants and Field Coordinators
Institution: The World Bank Development Impact Evaluation Group (DIME)
Fields of research: Impact evaluation, applied microeconomics
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Full-Time Research Professional (pre-doctoral)
Sponsoring Researchers: Zhiguo He, John Heaton, and other Finance faculty
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
Field of research: Financial economics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: Eric Budish, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Jacob Leshno, Pascal Noel, Christina Patterson, Elisa Rubbo, Joseph Vavra, Constantine Yannelis, Anthony Lee Zhang, Eric Zwick
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Public economics, inequality, development, labor economics, macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, behavioral economics, household finance, market design, financial intermediation, trade, education
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Shoshana Vasserman
Institution: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Fields of research: Industrial organization, applied microeconomics
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Full-Time Predoctoral Research Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Zachary Bleemer
Institution: The Tobin Center at Yale University
Fields of research: Economics of education, labor economics, applied microeconomics
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Luigi Zingales
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center
Fields of research: Economics, Finance, Political Economy, Public Policy
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Pre-Doctoral Stanford Law Empirical Research Fellowship
Sponsoring Researchers: John J. Donohue, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Ho, Daniel Kessler, Alison Morantz
Institution: Stanford Law School
Fields of research: Empirical legal and social science research
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Full Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, David Laibson
Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Field of research: Genoeconomics
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Impact Financial Database Associate
Institution: Wharton Social Impact Initiative
Fields of research: Management, finance, business, organizational psychology, sociology, economics
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Research Data Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Diane Schanzenbach
Institution: Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
Fields of research: Education and anti-poverty
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Staff Associate II
Sponsoring Researchers: Valerie Purdie-Greenway
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Organizational behavior, human behavior, psychology
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Research Assistants
Institution: The Federal Reserve System
Fields of research: Diverse fields in social science with a policy focus
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Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Jose Figueroa, Thomas Tsai
Institution: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Fields of research: Health policy, health services
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Full-Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Amanda Kowalski
Institution: University of Michigan
Fields of research: Health economics and econometrics
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Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Various scholars
Institution: Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
Fields of research: Economic policy, including banking and finance, energy and climate economics, fiscal policy, health economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, monetary policy, poverty, social mobility, welfare, regulatory issues, tax policy
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Alice Rivlin Fellow
Sponsoring Researcher: Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Institution: Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
Fields of research: Fiscal policy, broadly defined as Rivlin did, to include such topics as federal benefit programs, taxes, budget process, debt and deficits, fiscal federalism, and public investment
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researcher: Jonathan Bonham, Amoray Riggs-Cragun, and Haresh Sapra
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Compensation contracts, disclosure policies and measurement rules, and transparency
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Research Professionals
Sponsoring Researcher: Accounting faculty, including Anna Costello, Thomas Rauter, Delphine Samuels, Christopher Stewart, and Rimmy Tomy
Institution: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Financial regulation, disclosure or transparency, banking, applied economics, taxation, accounting and financial reporting
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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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Research Associate
Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of research: Economics, finance, marketing, strategy, organizational behavior
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
Sponsoring Researcher: Heidi Williams
Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of research: Innovation and technology
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Full-Time Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researchers: Daniel Benjamin, Miles Kimball, Ori Heffetz, Kristen Cooper
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Field of research: Behavioral economics
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Research Analyst
Sponsoring Researchers: Marianne Bertrand and Kelly Hallberg
Sponsoring Institution: Inclusive Economy Lab
Fields of research: Public policy
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Staff Associate: Economics Division
Sponsoring Researchers: Ashley Swanson and Laura Boudreau
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Microeconomics, industrial organization, public finance
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Research Professional
Sponsoring Researchers: 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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Senior Clinical Research Assistant
Sponsoring Researcher: Stephanie Parade
Sponsoring Institution: East Providence, Bradley Hospital
Fields of research: Early childhood mental health, childhood maltreatment, trauma, home visiting, infant mental health and development
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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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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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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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