National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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Research assistant to Professors Nikhil Agarwal (MIT), Charles Hodgson (Yale) and Paulo Somaini (Stanford)

We are looking to hire highly skilled and motivated full-time research assistants to begin in the summer or fall of 2020 and to work for two years. The position will entail close collaboration and assistance with all stages of empirical research at the interface of market design, health economics, and industrial organization. Research assistants would work on high impact projects on measuring the life-years benefits of kidney transplantation, and on improving the kidney allocation system in the United States. We will be working with a team that includes a transplant surgeon (Dr. Mike Rees), an operations research scientist (Itai Ashlagi) and an empirical market designer (Daniel Waldinger). Specifically, we will be building on a previous paper by our team on improving the deceased donor kidney allocation system (http://economics.mit.edu/files/14758).

We welcome candidates with strong technical backgrounds who are looking for more exposure to economics. Prior research assistant experience strongly preferred. Excellent grades required. The job is ideal for someone with an enthusiasm for empirical research, and the ability and interest to learn new skills and take initiative as a project develops.