Junior Specialist​/Assistant Specialist - Economics - Department of Economics

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Represented Specialist Salary Scales The current full time base salary for this position is $57,000 - $65,800. "Off-scale" salaries, which yield compensation that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions.

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Summer 2027

The initial appointment is for one year, with the possibility of renewal based on performance and funding availability.

Open date:
October 10, 2026

Next review date:
Sunday, Oct 25, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date:
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

The Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks a Junior / Assistant Specialist to work with Professor Nicolas Longuet-Marx in the conduct of several of his research projects in political economy, focusing on municipal bond referendums, the innovation and diffusion of policies across states over time, the drivers of political realignment, and the interaction between labor market factors and political behavior.

Tasks will include data collection, data cleaning and processing, and data analysis.

• Collecting recent and historical data on American political economy, such as precinct results, candidate websites, municipal finance data, and campaign contributions. The data will be collected from various sources, such as Secretaries of State, county election officials, the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Library of Congress.

• Processing the above-described datasets, together with other datasets already collected by the Principal Investigators. The processing will include geospatial analysis to recover precinct demographics and map changes in precincts over time, as well as simple natural language processing to analyze candidate websites and the automatic digitization of old electoral maps.

• Analyzing the different datasets to produce descriptive statistics and data visualizations, conduct econometric analyses, and estimate structural models of political behavior and political competition.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) or enrolled in a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) program

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree)

Experience with data collection, data processing

Experience with data analysis in Stata, Python or, R.

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
• Cover Letter

• 2 required (contact information only)

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