Full Time Term Research Assistant

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION: Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow with UC Berkeley Prof. Joseph S. Shapiro I seek a highly skilled and driven individual to work as a full-time Research Fellow. Research may cover environment/energy, public finance, trade, and health, and will entail close collaboration with faculty co-authors at other top universities. Previous candidates have enrolled in Ph.D. programs at top economics departments and coauthored journal articles. The start date will ideally be summer or fall of 2026, though there is flexibility. I will hire on renewable one-year contracts, with preference for applicants who can work for two years. NBER provides competitive salary and benefits. Responsibilities: Job responsibilities span all stages of research, including managing projects, collecting and analyzing data, creating presentations, interviewing government and private sector stakeholders, writing, and editing. Current topics include papers analyzing the economics of water quality policies, land use regulation, efficiency and equity properties of environmental policies, and dynamic natural resource management. Some projects involve the analysis of confidential data from the U.S. Cen...