Predoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Do you find yourself thinking about about why our economy works the way it does, or how to make it better? Wondering whether a career in economic policy research is right for you? A SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellowship can help you answer these questions!
New SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellowship Available
This position will begin on 7/7/25
Mentor:
好色App Digital Economy Lab (DEL) has a research partnership with ADP, the leading provider in business services for payroll processing and human resources management. DEL researchers are using ADP microdata (on workers, jobs, and pay) to carry out a variety of research projects relating to workforce, management, and technology. We seek a predoc to support development of data infrastructure (e.g., create tools to extract, link, and clean data), develop and maintain data tables on measures of the workforce (e.g., wages by industry and occupation), and contribute to research projects (e.g., measuring the skill content of jobs and the wage returns to skills). The computing environment is a cloud-based Databricks platform, with existing code predominantly in Python language. We expect a predoc to have strong background and interest in economics (e.g., applied microeconomics, labor economics), and strong computational skills (e.g., data processing in Python, econometrics in Stata, experience in machine learning and natural language processing is a plus). Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. The position will remain open until filled.