National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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Position: Full-Time Research Assistant at the NBER

Description of Job Responsibilities:

Jessica Van Parys (Hunter College), Becky Staiger (Stanford), and Nicole Maestas (Harvard) would like to employ a full-time research assistant from June 2022 to May 2023 with a 35 hour/week commitment. The RA will work on a health economics project related to racial/ethnic health disparities in the Medicaid population. The project will utilize the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) Analytic Files (TAF) housed at the NBER. The RA will be responsible for cleaning and constructing analytic data sets from the TAF data, as well as generating summary statistics, graphics, and regression results. The RA will work directly with Jessica and Becky, and the team will meet weekly to review goals and progress.

Required Background:
The prospective applicant should have completed an undergraduate degree in economics, math, statistics, or computer programming, and have advanced programming skills in Stata, R, and/or SAS. We will consider applicants who will graduate in the winter/spring of 2022. Ideally the applicant will have research experience, a demonstrated interest in health economics, and wants to pursue a research career. Knowledge of LaTeX, Unix, and/or applied econometrics is a plus.