National Bureau of Economic Research

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Economic analysis of COVID-19 related mobility restrictions, and related short- and long-term health outcomes using Public Health and related Electronic Health Records. The impact of various place-based policies on the health and socio-economic outcomes of under-represented and Indigenous populations; the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the role of government policies. In particular, the work will include data cleaning, merging and statistical and regression analyses for several existing confidential-use data sets.

The duties will be: a) Clean and harmonize to the extent possible these data sets so that they are broadly comparable along geographic lines and questions/variables. This will be conducted in collaboration with the faculty member and other team members; b) produce standard summary statistics and regression analysis for the research question as directed by the team members; c) gather some additional data on existing national level policies and interventions that may be hypothesized to be related to the existing research project; d) Researcher will meet weekly with the PIs on this project and it is feasible for this to be a fully remote position.

Minimum Requirements: A Phd in Economics, Statistics or Public Policy. The ideal candidate would have 4-5 years experience in a research institution.