Fulltime RA Job Postings

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:26:22 -0400

Prof. Daniel Benjamin (UCLA) and his co-authors are looking to hire a research assistant to start immediately (summer/fall 2021) and two research assistants to start in the summer of 2021. Would you circulate the job postings for the summer/fall 2021 job to your alumni network and the job postings for the summer 2022 positions to the senior undergraduate students your respective departments?

The Research Assistant, Behavioral Economics (UCLA) position is a full-time position starting immediately (summer/fall 2021). The selected candidate will work with economics professor Dan Benjamin (at UCLA), Miles Kimball (University of Colorado Boulder), Ori Heffetz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Kristen Cooper (Gordon College) and their co-authors, and is ideal for individuals interested in behavioral economics research and likely to pursue a PhD in economics.

The Research Assistant, Behavioral Economics (UCLA) position is a full-time position starting in summer 2022. The selected candidate will work with economics professor Dan Benjamin (at UCLA), Miles Kimball (University of Colorado Boulder), Ori Heffetz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Kristen Cooper (Gordon College) and their co-authors, and is ideal for individuals interested in behavioral economics research and likely to pursue a PhD in economics.

The Research Assistant, Genoeconomics (NBER) position is a full-time position starting in summer 2022. The chosen candidate will work with economics professors Dan Benjamin (UCLA), David Cesarini (NYU), David Laibson (Harvard University), and their co-authors. This position will work out of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) offices in Cambridge, MA. The ideal candidate is someone who is interested in genoeconomics (i.e., the identification of genetic variation that is associated with variation in economic behavior), and is likely to pursue a PhD in economics, genomics, statistics, data science, or a related field.

Also attached are PDF copies of these job postings.