Economics Pre-Doctoral Research Data Specialist (School of Government and Policy)
Core
Assist in the management, analysis, and reporting of complex data to support research projects, publications, and presentations for the School of Government and Public Policy.
Role type
Research Data Specialist (Economics)
Builds
Publication-quality tables, graphs, datasets, and statistical analyses for academic and policy research.
Domain
Economics / Public Policy / Academic Research
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis | research
Required skills
Data cleaning, statistical calculations, dataset construction, variable construction, survey administration, data merging, statistical analysis, report preparation, STATA, R, Python
Preferred skills
Bachelor's Degree
Technologies
STATA, R, Python
Responsibilities
Assist with building datasets, constructing variables and data cleaning; Assist with the production of publication-quality tables and graphs; Provide preliminary and interim analyses of data; Support the performance of analyses on large, complex datasets; Prepare data reports and analyses; Work with project team on survey development and administration; Merge existing administrative as well as new survey data sets; Conduct statistical analysis in R and Stata on both administrative and survey data; Assist with writing up the analysis for papers in peer-reviewed journals.