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Kellogg Global Poverty Research lab Position #1: Household definitions in international surveys vary but are essential to understanding demographic and poverty trends. The student will work on a project that examines varying definitions of a ‘household’ in international household surveys and implications for measures such as household size, number of earning members and per capita consumption.
- Look through numerous survey questionnaires and record details of the household definition and roster questions
- Document subjective decisions and highlight discrepancies to supervisor
- Contribute to check-in meetings
- Assist on other project-related tasks per interest and project needs
Qualifications: Interest in international development and/or econometric research, detail-oriented and organized, careful about following instructions and documentation, willing to learn, familiarity with Stata desired, but not required
Interested candidates should send their CV and a short (max 150 words) paragraph explaining their interest in the project and/or international development to tyler.box@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Kellogg Global Poverty Research Lab Position # 2: Household definitions in international surveys vary but are essential to understanding demographic and poverty trends. The student will work on a project that examines varying definitions of a ‘household’ in many international household surveys and implications for measures such as household size, number of earning members and per capita consumption. They will work in Stata with survey datasets to:
- Keep only variables of interest from the survey’s dataset
- Clean and harmonize these variables as per the rules/codebook we define
- Append and merge each survey’s harmonized, clean dataset, to create single master dataset
- Contribute to check-in meetings
- Assist on other project-related tasks per interest and project needs
Qualifications: Interest in international development and/or econometric research, detail-oriented and organized: Careful about following instructions and maintaining documentation, familiar with Stata and willing to learn more as required, coursework in microeconomics is preferred but not required, ideally seeking junior or senior year students.
Interested candidates should send their CV and a short (max 150 words) paragraph explaining their interest in the project and/or international development to tyler.box@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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