Job Description
**Job Description**
**The Research Analyst will support an empirical research program on the public returns to higher education.**
**Please submit the following application materials for full consideration.**
Required:
· A cover letter
· A current résumé/curriculum vitae
· College transcripts (unofficial) combined in a single document
· Contact information for 3 recommenders
Optional:
· Writing sample(s) of any length
The Research Analyst will help build and manage linked, individual-level administrative datasets on postsecondary enrollment, degree completion, and subsequent labor-market outcomes, integrating them with supplementary survey and labor-market data sources. They will implement quasi-experimental research designs — including regression-discontinuity designs at admissions thresholds and instrumental-variables strategies exploiting geographic variation in college access — to estimate the...
**The Research Analyst will support an empirical research program on the public returns to higher education.**
**Please submit the following application materials for full consideration.**
Required:
· A cover letter
· A current résumé/curriculum vitae
· College transcripts (unofficial) combined in a single document
· Contact information for 3 recommenders
Optional:
· Writing sample(s) of any length
The Research Analyst will help build and manage linked, individual-level administrative datasets on postsecondary enrollment, degree completion, and subsequent labor-market outcomes, integrating them with supplementary survey and labor-market data sources. They will implement quasi-experimental research designs — including regression-discontinuity designs at admissions thresholds and instrumental-variables strategies exploiting geographic variation in college access — to estimate the...