Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Categories: Academic/Faculty, Business/Finance
Internal Number: 16704
School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Position Description
Economics professors David Laibson (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Harvard Business School) are hiring a full‐time predoctoral fellow to start work in mid-June 2027. This position will last until mid-July 2028, with a potential second-year renewal, and will involve work on theoretical and empirical research related to behavioral economics, decision making, and household finance. The research uses observational field data, experimental data, and field experiments.
Salary is $70,500 annually, plus benefits. Expected start date is mid-June 2027.
For examples of our research, see our faculty pages:
- https://scholar.harvard.edu/laibson/home
- https://faculty.som.yale.edu/jameschoi/
- http://www.hbs.edu/jbeshears
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Performing statistical analyses on large databases
- Designing and running experiments
- Structural modelling and related econometrics
- Proving theoretical results
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree by start date (required)
- Strong programming and quantitative skills, including coursework in multivariable calculus, matrix algebra, probability, and statistics (required)
- Previous experience estimating econometric models (strongly preferred)
- Interest in applying to a quantitative PhD program and pursuing an academic career (strongly preferred)
We prefer research assistants who want to become professional economists, but we're interested in future PhDs in any quantitative field. Our past full‐time RAs have enrolled in the following PhD programs: Harvard economics (15), Harvard business economics (5), Harvard public policy (2), MIT economics (9), MIT operations research (1), Princeton economics (1), University of Chicago Booth – finance (2), University of Chicago Booth – economics (2), University of Chicago history (1), UC Berkeley economics (3), Yale economics (1), Columbia economics (1), NYU Stern economics (1), Stanford economics (1) and Northwestern economics (1).
Contact Information
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Contact Email: econacademicappointments@fas.harvard.edu
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary Range: $70,500
About Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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