Research Associate or Policy Analyst

Home About Research Associate or Policy Analyst

Research Associates and Policy Analysts at the Institute for Policy Integrity receive strong preparation for doctoral programs and for other analytical jobs in academia, consulting, industry, or programming. Their work may lead to published research in academic journals.

Housed at the New York University School of Law, Policy Integrity is a non‑partisan think tank dedicated to improving the quality of government decision‑making. Our principal focus is U.S. energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on climate change. We produce original scholarly research in the fields of economics, law, and regulatory policy. We also advocate for reform before courts and agencies.

Policy Integrity’s interdisciplinary mission focuses on the rational use of economic analysis in government decision‑making and how tools like cost‑benefit analysis and distributional analysis can improve policy design. Policy Integrity’s docket covers a range of issue areas, with a particular emphasis on federal environmental protections and federal‑ and state‑level electricity policies, as well as a steady stream of projects on public health and consumer protection.

Policy Integrity’s successful advocacy outcomes include ensuring that agencies are required to consider the lost social benefits and other harms of any deregulatory actions; guiding state utility regulators on the need to value environmental externalities in energy policy decisions; improving energy market designs and planning decisions; convincing both federal and state courts to endorse the use of the social cost of carbon for monetizing avoided climate damages;

and prompting the Department of the Interior to analyze the option value of delaying offshore oil leases.

The Research Associate/Policy Analyst will have multiple duties such as performing a variety of statistical or econometric analyses; curating and updating datasets; cleaning, analyzing, and validating data; writing research and policy reports; and conducting background research and literature reviews, with guidance from senior staff members. This work may also involve the ongoing development and support of simulation modeling in the electricity sector as well as analyzing modeling results and participating in developing papers, reports, and presentations based on the modeling outcomes.

We are looking for applicants with the following skills:

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in economics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field;
• Relevant work experience is a plus but not required for the Research Associate position; a minimum of 5 years relevant experience is required for the Policy Analyst position;
• Previous experience as a research analyst or conducting independent research using statistical software such as STATA or R is a plus;
• Ability to understand, use, maintain, modify, and add features to electricity market outcomes written primarily in Python and Julia is a plus;
• Ability to work in a careful and conscientious manner across multiple projects;
• Strong writing and communication skills.

Policy Integrity is committed to a culture in which all people are welcomed, respected, supported, and valued to fully participate. We welcome and encourage applications from diverse applicants, and we consider multiple aspects of diversity.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of minority sexual orientation or gender…