DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Title: Research Assistant, Workforce Science Project (Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics)

Openings: One

Project description:

The Workforce Science Project of the Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics seeks students for a position on an empirical project examining the validity of using names as proxies for race in correspondence studies of labor market discrimination.  

Position description:

The work will involve the analysis of data from 20 million California birth certificates. This position requires strong programming skills. Candidates proficient in Stata and R are preferred.

Learn more about the Workforce Science Project.

Please provide a cover letter, resume, and transcript (unofficial) and submit your packet to the Northwestern Center on Law, Business and Economics at clbe@law.northwestern.edu.   Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.