Junior Research Specialist - Behavioral Economics

University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 58,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of California, Berkeley Haas School seeks a Junior or Assistant Specialist to support behavioral economics research. You will help develop data workflows, clean large datasets, and run econometric analyses across micro and macro topics under Prof.

Ulrike Malmendier. Responsibilities include designing causal models, maintaining transparent documentation, and producing publication-quality tables and figures for scholarly output.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree at time of application.
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by start date.
• Quantitative background with data analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute data workflows with rigorous QA.
• Implement econometric analyses using DiD, RD, IV and structural methods.
• Assist in research design and causal inference interpretation.
• Maintain project documentation for reproducibility.
• Prepare manuscripts and publishable tables/visualizations.

Skills

Data workflows

Econometrics

Programming

Statistical analysis

Research collaboration

Education

Bachelors degree (quantitative)

Tools

R

Python

Stata

SQL

Job description

The University of California, Berkeley Haas School seeks a Junior or Assistant Specialist to support behavioral economics research. You will help develop data workflows, clean large datasets, and run econometric analyses across micro and macro topics under Prof.

Ulrike Malmendier. Responsibilities include designing causal models, maintaining transparent documentation, and producing publication-quality tables and figures for scholarly output.