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Throughout the year, there are always many opportunities available to undergraduates to enhance your knowledge and experience in the field of Economics.  Below are different types of opportunities currently available.

The Ec Department runs a Semester Undergraduate Program for Economics Research (SUPER), which pairs students with faculty for semester-long RA positions. The application and hiring cycle for Fall 2023 is now closed. The Spring 2024 cycle will accept applications starting in Dec/Jan. Please stay tuned on our website (and make sure you are signed up on our listserv to hear when SUPER is accepting applications).

Types of Opportunities:

Jobs, Research Analysts or Assistantships, Internships  For Seniors  Funding Opportunities  Other Interesting Opportunities

Jobs, Research Analysts or Assistantships, Internships

  • Research assistant, EV charging (Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability): Vice Provost Jim Stock and Senior Fellow Elaine Buckberg seek a paid undergraduate RA for research on EV charging. Their Harvard-led team of researchers are working to accelerate progress on public EV charging as a pathway to achieving widespread EV adoption and unlocking its climate benefits. Full-time candidates preferred; candidates should be available at least 20 hours/week for at least 12 weeks of the summer. Proficiency in Python, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Responsibilities will include web scraping, analyzing quantitative data, and background research. Read more about the project here. Please contact Elaine Buckberg (elaine_buckberg@harvard.edu) with resume, 200-300 words on your interest in the position, and your summer availability. Deadline: none given (posted 4/10/2024)

  • Research Assistant: Ana Antolin, PhD Candidate in Strategy at Harvard Business School, seeks one to two undergraduate research assistants to assist with various aspects of the research process, including working on background research on state-level gaming laws and legal precedent. Deadline: none given (posted 4/10/2024)

  • Student Trainee (summer intern): The Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission seek interns for Summer 2024. They are looking for advanced undergraduate economics students who are interested in exploring graduate school (such as those considering a pre-doc for the fall of 2025) or economic policy jobs after graduation. They are especially interested in students with substantive experience analyzing data in Stata, R, or Python, and excellent written and oral communication skills. Deadline: rolling basis (posted 3/28/2024)

  • Fall 2024 Peer Tutors: The Academic Resource Center (ARC) seeks Peer Tutors for a variety of courses for the Fall 2024 term. Deadline: 5/1/2024 (posted 3/22/2024)

  • Research Assistant: Jared Ellias, professor at Harvard Law School, seeks full-time summer research assistants for empirical research on corporate bankruptcy and financial distress. Tasks will include reading and analyzing legal documents and business and financial data. To apply, please email Professor Ellias’ assistant Alina Kilcoyne (kkilcoyne@law.harvard.edu) with a resume, transcript and a short cover email detailing your familiarity with statistical analysis and Python.  Prior familiarity with financial data, corporate law or bankruptcy is not necessary.  Programming experience is not necessary but is helpful. Deadline: none given (posted 3/11/2024)

  • Research Assistant: Econometrics tutoring help needed for 10-20 hours for Visiting Fellow. Undergraduate or graduate student who is proficient in using STATA, R, and EVIEWS is desired for part time assistance.  Knowledge of Python will be considered an added advantage. Pay scale negotiable. If interested, please send your resume to Prof. Richard Peiser at rpeiser@gsd.harvard.edu. Deadline: none given (posted 2/5/2024)

  • Research Assistant: PhD students in the Harvard economics department (Matthew Lee Chen, Eu-Wayne Mok, and Yu-Jia Wang) seek research assistants to help with data collection for an early-stage project that explores how the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia conditioned political change in China over the course of the 20th century. Applicants considered on a rolling basis and should apply as soon as possible. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

  • Research Assistant: PhD student in the Harvard economics department (Matthew Lee Chen) seeks part-time research assistants for a project that seeks to understand how European exploration around the world conditioned a “culture of science” and imperialism at home. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

  • Summer 2024 Internship: Abdiel Capital seeks summer interns to read financial reports, interview sources, and collect and analyze data. Deadline: none given (posted 2/2/2024)

  • Summer 24 Internship: The D. E. Shaw group seeks students with an expected grad term of Spring 2025 to apply to their summer 2024 internship program. Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

  • Research Assistant: PhD student seeks a research assistant to work on an ongoing project focusing on the intersection between the peace processes and on-the-ground conflict. The role will mainly require scraping data, training a language model, and labelling data. If interested, email Emily Silcock at emilysilcock@fas.harvard.edu. Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

  • Research Assistant: PhD student seeks a research assistant to work on an ongoing project focusing on the intersection between the peace processes and on-the-ground conflict. The role will mainly require combing through news reports to find details of their peace processes. If interested, email Emily Silcock at emilysilcock@fas.harvard.edu. Deadline: none given (posted 12/27/2023)

  • Research Assistant: Dr. Ashley Nunes (Harvard Law) is seeking an undergraduate research assistant to work on a project on the economics of decarbonization. Deadline: none given (posted 11/21/2023)

  • Research Assistant: Professor Leo Bursztyn (UChicago Economics) and Aakaash Rao (Harvard Economics) seek an undergraduate research assistant to work on a project on American political campaigns. Deadline: none given (posted 10/10/2023)

  • Research Assistant: Professor Alisha Holland (Government, Harvard) seeks a part-time RA with a strong command of Stata to help build and analyze a dataset of international infrastructure contracts for a study of electoral cycles in infrastructure contracting in the developing world. Deadline: none given (posted 9/1/2023)

  • Research Assistant: Jared Ellias, a professor at Harvard Law School, seeks a Fall Semester research assistant through the Institute for Quantitative Social Science for empirical research on corporate bankruptcy and financial distress. To apply, contact Alina Kilcoyne (kkilcoyne@law.harvard.edu) with necessary materials. Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

  • Research Assistant: The Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution lab at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology seeks an RA for the Fall semester to work on a variety of computational and programming tasks. If interested, contact Mona Xue at culture.cognition.evo.lab@gmail.com. Deadline: none given (posted 8/14/2023)

  • Various Summer Research Assistantships at the National Bureau of Economic Research

  • Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC): A one-stop place where undergraduate students from any backgrounds can find all the information they need, including available RA job positions around the country, educational material to prepare for e.g. data tests, guidance on courses to take, testimonials, and more.
     
  • NBER RA page. Aggregates RA searches by NBER fellows. 

For Seniors

  • GPI Fellowship Programme: The Global Prosperity Institute (GPI) is launching the GPI Fellowship Programme, offering candidates a 12 to 24 month paid position working in and helping to grow dynamic small businesses across Tanzania and gain real world experience in driving broad based sustainable economic growth. Deadline: 4/30/2024 (posted 3/27/2024)

  • Post-doctoral Fellow: The Golub Capital Social Impact Lab in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford seeks fellows for a two year post-doctoral fellowship in field experiments for impact driven social science research working with The Economics of Technology professor Susan Athey and other affiliates of the GC Lab. Deadline: none given (posted 2/29/2024)

  • Post-doctoral Fellow: The Golub Capital Social Impact Lab in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford seeks fellows for a two year post-doctoral fellowship in applied causal inference with machine learning methods working with The Economics of Technology professor Susan Athey and other affiliates of the GC Lab. Deadline: none given (posted 2/29/2024)

  • Research Assistant: The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) seeks a Research Assistant to support its work promoting evidence-based economic policy and support AESG’s Director and Policy Director, both PhD Economists, by producing original economic research and editing commissioned papers. Deadline: none given (posted 2/26/2024)

  • Economist: Decision Economics, Inc. (DE) seeks a full-time economist to join their economic analysis and quantitative econometric model-based information system forecasting firm serving Corporations, Financial Institutions (Banks, Asset Managers and Traders), and Individuals. Part-time hours are possible for the right candidate. Deadline: none given (posted 1/22/2024)

  • Research Staff Associate: Columbia Business School seeks a Research Staff Associate for the Economics Division to work on empirical and theoretical research on sovereign debt, the emergence, propagation, and resolution of sovereign debt crises. Deadline: none given (posted 1/3/2024)

  • Pre-doctoral Researcher: Professors Tong Liu, Lira Mota, Christopher Palmer, and Kerry Siani seek full-time pre-doctoral research fellows for up to two years starting summer 2024 to collaborate on empirical projects in the fields of corporate finance, capital markets, macro-finance, entrepreneurial finance, household finance, and micro-econometrics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

  • Pre-doctoral Researcher: Professors Joseph Doyle, Alexey Makarin, and Benjamin Vatter seek full-time pre-doctoral researchers to collaborate at all stages of the research process on new and ongoing empirical projects in applied economics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

  • Pre-doctoral Researcher: Professor Mert Demirer, MIT Sloan, and Michael Rubens, UCLA, seek full-time research assistants for summer 2024 to collaborate on projects in industrial organization. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

  • Pre-doctoral Researcher: David Thesmar & Emil Verner, MIT Sloan, seek fulltime Technical Associates for at least one year, ideally two, beginning in July, 2024 to collaborate in all stages of the research process on a number of new and ongoing empirical projects in the fields of financial economics and macroeconomics. Deadline: none given (posted 12/13/2023)

  • Pre-doctoral Researcher: Professors Charles Angelucci and Alexey Makarin at MIT Sloan School of Management seek a full-time Predoctoral Technical Associate to help conduct research for several projects in the areas of Political Economy, Economics of Media, Applied Microeconomics in Summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 11/22/2023)

  • Research Assistant: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks full-time, in-person research assistants to work with senior economists on a wide variety of economic policy issues related to the US economy, tax policy, international finance, political economy, financial services, and health care. Deadline: none given (posted 10/30/2023)

  • Research Fellow: Prof Marcella Alsan, Director of the Health Inequality Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, seeks full-time predoctoral research fellows to start in Summer 2024 to support and collaborate on a series of projects related to the economics of health inequality within the U.S. and around the globe. Deadline: none given (posted 10/26/2023)

  • Strategy Associate: The Fidelity Foundations’ Strategy & Impact team seeks an associate for a strategy consulting role in social impact, with opportunity for learning and growth. Deadline: none given (posted 10/4/2023)

  • Research Professional:  The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago seeks full-time research assistants for a period of at least one year starting in Summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 10/3/2023)

  • Predoctoral Research Assistants: The Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance at Princeton University seeks predoctoral research assistants interested in macroeconomics and finance, to start in summer 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 9/29/2023)

  • Associate: Secretariat, an international consulting firm, seeks Associates for Summer 2024 starts in its Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA offices. The Associate position is an entry-level position with opportunities for advancement. Deadline: none given (posted 9/21/2023)

  • Economics Consulting Analyst/Associate: Charles River Associates seeks analysts at a variety of practices and locations. Deadline: none given (9/12/2023)

  • Research Assistant: Economics professors Dan Benjamin (UCLA), David Cesarini (NYU), Patrick Turley (USC), statistical geneticist Alex Young (UCLA), and their co-authors seek full‐time research assistants at UCLA with start dates during the summer of 2024. Deadline: none given (posted 9/12/2023)

  • Director’s Financial Analyst Program: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are recruiting for the Director’s Financial Analyst (DFA) position to start in June 2024. The DFA offers two-year full-time rotational fellowships designed to engage new entry professionals in public service work. Deadline: none given (posted 9/12/2023)

  • Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: Economics professors David Laibson (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Harvard Business School) seek a full‐time predoctoral fellow for mid-June 2024, lasting until mid-July 2025, with a potential second-year renewal. This will involve work on theoretical and empirical research related to behavioral economics, decision making, household finance, and health behaviors. Deadline: none given (posted 8/31/2023)

  • Research Assistant: The Federal Reserve system seeks research assistants for Spring and Summer of 2024 to work closely with economists on a variety of research questions and real-world policy issues. Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

  • Research Assistant Program: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeks recent grads for their Research Assistant Program (RAP). Deadline: none given (posted 8/30/2023)

  • Compilation of job opportunities for graduating seniors interested in research-based careers​.

  • NBER RA page. Aggregates RA searches by NBER fellows. 

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