Economics Research Assistant: Data, Policy & Analysis

University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 57,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, Berkeley seeks a Junior / Assistant Specialist to support research on municipal finance, policy diffusion, political realignment, and labor market effects on political behavior. You will gather data from official sources, clean and process datasets, and perform econometric analyses under Professor Nicolas Longuet-Marx.

The role emphasizes data collection, processing, and analysis with potential for project-wide involvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) required at time of start.
• Experience with collecting and processing datasets is preferred.
• Experience with data analysis using Stata, Python or R is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collect recent and historical political economy data from official sources.
• Process datasets with geospatial analysis and NLP on candidate websites; digitize maps where needed.
• Analyze datasets to produce descriptive statistics, econometric analyses, and structural models of political behavior.

Skills

Data collection

Data processing

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Stata

Python

R

Job description

University of California, Berkeley seeks a Junior / Assistant Specialist to support research on municipal finance, policy diffusion, political realignment, and labor market effects on political behavior. You will gather data from official sources, clean and process datasets, and perform econometric analyses under Professor Nicolas Longuet-Marx.

The role emphasizes data collection, processing, and analysis with potential for project-wide involvement.