Empirical Research Fellow; Academic Depts

Empirical Research Fellow (Various Academic Depts)

Job Summary:

As an Empirical Research Fellow, you will collaborate with faculty and PhD students at the Kellogg School of Management to work on empirical or theoretical economics research projects. You will typically work on multiple projects at a time, and your contributions might span all aspects of the research life cycle.

Department:
Kellogg MEDS and Opns

Salary/Grade: NEX/15

Potential research duties may include: collecting and validating new research datasets, performing statistical analyses on large databases, programming simulations of theoretical models, and proving theoretical results.

Successful candidates will have completed at least a bachelor’s degree by the employment start date. If selected, you will be offered a one-year appointment, with the ability to renew for one year based on performance.

Your application should include a cover letter or personal statement describing your career/academic goals (including future graduate study) and what you hope to accomplish with the Fellowship, your CV/resume, and your most recent college transcripts.

• Work closely with multiple faculty members as a project team member on multiple new or ongoing research projects.
• Collect, maintain, and document original research datasets, and proactively test for data integrity.
• Merge data sources, create new variables, and reformat data to prepare it for analysis.
• Assist data analysis by performing applied statistical techniques.
• Write programs to simulate the results from theoretical models and/or solve constrained optimization problems.
• Produce tables, figures, and research outputs as needed.
• Assist faculty with literature reviews, development of theoretical economic models, and reviewing drafts of papers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree.
• A strong quantitative background; computer programming skills including R, Stata, Matlab, and/or SAS.
• Past experience with research, including independent work such as an undergraduate thesis or work as a research assistant.
• Strong habits documenting datasets and program code.
• Ability to work independently to solve problems.
• Long-term interest in pursuing research in Economics, Finance, or a related field.

• Prior experience working as a Research Assistant or conducting independent research.
• Working knowledge of various data formats, database structures, and tagging schemas.
• Experience with lower-level or scripting languages such as Python, bash, Java, C, etc.
• Knowledge of theoretical concepts and common datasets used in Economics or Finance is desired, but not required.

$25.55/hr

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