CareerPlan

Predoctoral Scholar

Chicago, IL, USFull-time$50k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
On-site · United States

Core

Support high-impact research projects at the intersection of policy, behavior, and organizations under the supervision of Professor James Robinson.

Role type

Pre-doctoral research scholar (social science)

Builds

Journal articles, conference presentations, and research reports

Domain

Public policy, behavioral economics, and social science research

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Research design, data analysis, literature review, semi-structured interviews, statistical analysis

Preferred skills

Randomized survey experiments, econometric methods, data visualization

Technologies

STATA, R, SPS, Qualtrics

Responsibilities

Manage research effort, conduct and analyze semi-structured interviews, prepare and clean survey data, contribute to journal articles and reports, maintain research databases, recruit and schedule research subjects, install and perform experiments

Seniority

Junior, research assistant