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.

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Research Areas

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researcher: Brad Shapiro
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Marketing

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow: California Homelessness Project

Sponsoring Researcher: Mark Duggan
Institution: SIEPR
Field of research: Public policy

Pre-Doctoral Project Specialist

Sponsoring Researchers: Isabelle Brocas and Juan Carrillo
Institution: University of Southern California
Fields of research: Behavioral economics, experimental economics

Full-Time Behavioral Lab Manager

Sponsoring Researchers: Behavioral faculty
Institution: University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Fields of research: Consumer behavior, marketing, decision science, behavioral economics, creativity, emotion, strategy, management and organizations, power, motivation, teamwork, leadership

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Sponsoring Researchers: Jason Abaluck, Ian Ayres, Lauren Bergquist, Judy Chevalier, Zack Cooper, Raphael Duguay,Zequiong Huang, Amit Khandelwal, Anya Nakhmurina, Chima Ndumele, Aniko Oery, Thomas Steffen, Jacob Thomas, Jacob Wallace, Edward Watts, Kevin Williams, Emma Zang
Institution: Tobin Center and Department of Economics at Yale University
Fields of research: Accounting, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Sociology

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researcher: Robert J. Sampson
Institution: Harvard University
Fields of research: Crime, criminal justice, life course, urban inequality

Research Specialist

Sponsoring Researchers: Various Law and Economics Faculty
Institution: The University of Chicago Law School, Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics
Fields of research: Law and Economics (primary) with possible research opportunities in crime, health, development, and public finance

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Sponsoring Researcher: Ben Enke
Institution: Harvard University
Field of research: Behavioral Economics

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Sponsoring Researcher: Melissa Dell
Institution: Harvard University
Field of research: Data science

Staff Associate (Predoctoral Fellow): Management Division

Sponsoring Researchers: Dan Wang, Mabel Abraham, Vanessa Burbano, Sandra Matz, and others
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Organizational theory, strategy, sociology, economics, entrepreneurship, gender and diversity in organizations

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: Scott Nelson, Winnie van Dijk
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Field of research: Microeconomics

Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researchers: David Autor, Daron Acemoglu, Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak
Institution: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Blueprint Labs
Fields of research: Economics, workforce

Policy and Communications Fellow

Sponsoring Researchers: David Autor and Daron Acemoglu
Institution: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Blueprint Labs
Fields of research: Economics, workforce

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: Anna Costello and Chris Stewart
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Accounting, economics

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researchers: Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis
Institution: University of Virginia
Fields of research: Environment/energy, public finance, labor, economic geography, industrial organization

Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Research Associate

Sponsoring Researcher: Matthew Denes
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Fields of research: Corporate finance; entrepreneurship

Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate

Sponsoring Researcher: Erin Kelly
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Field of research: Social science

Research Professional

Sponsoring researchers: Big Data Initiative - Alex Torgovitsky, and Guillaume Pouliot
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Fields of research: Big data, econometrics, statistical modeling

Staff Associate: Decision, Risk, and Operations

Sponsoring Researcher: Jing Dong, Fanyin Zheng, Carri Chan, and others
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Business analytics, e-commerce, revenue management, health care economics and operations, econometrics, quantitative finance, and other areas

Laboratory Coordinator

Sponsoring Researcher: Adam Grabell
Institution: The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields of research: Child psychology, clinical psychology

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: Marianne Bertrand, Robert Gertner
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Social impact, ESG (environmental, social, and governance)

Pre-Doctoral Research Assistan

Sponsoring Researchers: Finance faculty
Institution: HEC Paris
Field of research: Finance

Lab Manager

Sponsoring Researcher: Elke Weber
Institution: Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Fields of research: Decision science, psychology, public policy, climate change, organizational management

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: Rachel Glennerster and Anne Karing
Institution: The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Fields of research: Behavioral economics, economics of health delivery

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: Erika Kirgios, Alex Koch
Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of research: Behavioral economics, psychology

Research Associate

Sponsoring Researcher: Anjali Bhatt
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Organizational behavior

Research Associate

Sponsoring Researchers: Tatiana Sandino, Charles Wang
Institution: Harvard Business School
Field of research: Economics

Staff Associate: Finance Division

Sponsoring Researcher: Tomasz Piskorski
Institution: Columbia Business School
Field of research: Real estate

Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant

Sponsoring Researcher: Thomas Le Barbanchon
Institution: Bocconi University
Fields of research: Applied labor economics, job search, matching, gender inequality, unemployment insurance (under the ESEARCH grant)

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researchers: Juan Camilo Castillo and Pinar Yildirim
Institution: The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Fields of research: Industrial organization, online platforms, digital markets

Research Professional

Sponsoring Researchers: All Assistant Professors
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of research: Marketing

Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Assistant

Sponsoring Researchers: Reka Juhasz, Heather Sarsons, Victor Couture, Gorkem Bostanci, Giovanni Gallipoli, Munir Squires, Sam Hwang, Patrick Baylis, Matt Lowe
Institution: Center for Innovative Data in Economics Research, University of British Columbia
Fields of research: Labor, development, economic history, political economy, behavioral economics, public economics, urban economics, macroeconomics, the economics of crime, and applied microeconomics

Research Scholar - Applied Microeconomics

Sponsoring Researcher: Petra Moser
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of research: Applied microeconomics

Research Scholar - Macroeconomics

Sponsoring Researchers: Gian Luca Clementi, Nik Engbom, Abdou Ndiaye, Venky Venkateswaran, and Stan Zin
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of research: Macroeconomics

Research Scholar - Microeconomics

Sponsoring Researchers: Giulia Brancaccio, Chris Conlon, Michael Dickstein, and Paul Scott
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of research: Microeconomics

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Sponsoring Researcher: Abhishek Nagaraj
Institution: UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Fields of research: Economics, management, innovation, digitization

Staff Associate: Economics

Sponsoring Researcher: Abby Joseph Cohen
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Economics, Macroeconomics

Data Analyst

Sponsoring Researchers: Casey Mulligan, Tomas Philipson
Institution: The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Healthcare, economics

Pre-Doctoral Research Associate

Sponsoring Researcher: Sylvain Catherine
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Field of research: Financial economics

Pre-Doctoral Research Associate

Sponsoring Researchers: Lu Liu, Sean Meyers and Chaojun Wang
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Field of research: Financial economics

Pre-Doctoral Research Associate Itamar

Sponsoring Researchers: Itamar Drechsler, Joao Gomes and Luke Taylor
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Field of research: Financial economics

Staff Associate

Sponsoring Researchers: Sheena Iyengar
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Management and psychology

Research Associate

Sponsoring Researcher: Andrew Metrick
Institution: Yale Program on Financial Stability, Yale SOM
Fields of research: Financial crisis management, economic history, public policy

Patient Care Manager

Sponsoring Researchers: David H. Rosmarin and others
Institution: Center for Anxiety
Fields of research: Clinical psychology, mental health

Research Specialist

Sponsoring Researchers: Christina Brown and Rachel Glennerster
Institution: The University of Chicago
Fields of research: Development economics, health, education, labor markets

Pre-doctoral Fellow

Sponsoring Researcher: Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren
Institution: Opportunity Insights
Fields of research: Economics, economic mobility, inequality, big data

Full-Time Research Professional: Predoctoral Fellowship

Sponsoring Researcher: Michael Kremer
Institution: The University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab
Field of research: Development economics

Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Sponsoring Researcher: David Y. Yang
Institution: Harvard University Department of Economics
Field of research: Political economy

Full-Time Research Assistant

Sponsoring Researchers: Jennifer Kao, Chris Poliquin, Melanie Wasserman
Institution: UCLA Anderson School of Management
Fields of research: Applied microeconomics, with emphasis on health, labor, and organizational

Pre-doctoral Research Fellow

Sponsoring Researcher: Multiple faculty in marketing division
Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of research: Marketing analytics, innovation, strategic interactions between firms and consumers, marketing applications in econometrics, statistics, and data science