Climate Econometrics Research Associate

The University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth seeks a Research Professional to support data collection, cleaning, analysis, and manuscript preparation under EPIC-affiliated faculty across Booth, Harris, Law, or Economics.

Responsibilities include building data pipelines, conducting statistical analyses, running simulations, drafting presentations, and ensuring compliance with policies; in-person with partial remote options on the Hyde Park campus.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, public policy, or a related field.
• Master's degree in economics, public policy, or a related field.
• Advanced coursework in economics or mathematics.

Responsibilities

• Cleans and analyzes data.
• Writes or finalizes replicable data files or scripts for publication.
• Ensures compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.
• Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures.
• Assists with writing data analysis plans and contributes to preparing study registration documents.
• Supports the implementation of field experiments including design and data collection.

Skills

Data analysis

Academic writing

Communication skills

Independent work

Team collaboration

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in economics/public policy/related field

Master's degree in economics/public policy/related field

Advanced coursework in economics or mathematics

Tools

Stata

R

Python

Econometrics software

Job description

The University of Chicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth seeks a Research Professional to support data collection, cleaning, analysis, and manuscript preparation under EPIC-affiliated faculty across Booth, Harris, Law, or Economics.

Responsibilities include building data pipelines, conducting statistical analyses, running simulations, drafting presentations, and ensuring compliance with policies; in-person with partial remote options on the Hyde Park campus.