University of Michigan

Position Title/Short Description

Full Text of JOE Listing:

University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center (https://www.src.isr.umich.edu/) within the Institute for Social Research invites applications from outstanding candidates for a Research Scientist position dedicated to the construction and use of administrative data to study inequality and social mobility. We seek a researcher who would thrive in our entrepreneurial, interdisciplinary, collegial, yet highly autonomous culture. This scholar will be involved from the beginning of a new, large-scale effort to compare wealth and its intergenerational persistence across the entire United States. In a collaboration between researchers at the Center for Inequality Dynamics and the Internal Revenue Service, this new project will approximate the wealth holdings of U.S. taxpayers, produce estimates of wealth levels, wealth inequality, wealth segregation, and intergenerational wealth mobility, and distribute geographic aggregates of these estimates to the research community, policymakers, and broader public.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree in the social sciences or related disciplines. Individuals from groups historically under-represented in the social sciences are strongly encouraged to apply.

For a full description of the position and application instructions visit:
https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/197329/associateassistant_research_scientist

The University of Michigan is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.