Senior Research Fellow - Apprenticeship & Workforce Policy
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Workforce Intelligence LabPublic Policy Research
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- Required Skills
- PythonSQLData AnalysisR
Requirements
- Ph.D. or advanced doctoral training in economics, public policy, sociology, education, statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- Demonstrated applied research experience.
- Experience working with large administrative or longitudinal datasets.
- Proficiency in R, Stata, Python, SQL, or comparable research tools.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Strong methodological judgment.
- Experience in registered apprenticeship or apprenticeship policy.
- Experience in workforce development or Career Pathways.
- Experience in labor economics or applied microeconomics.
- Experience in quasi-experimental policy evaluation.
- Proficiency in causal inference methods such as Difference-in-Differences, event-study, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, or panel-data methods.
Responsibilities
- Refining the research question and causal estimand.
- Evaluating treatment and comparison-group design.
- Performing Difference-in-Differences, event-study, synthetic-control, or related quasi-experimental analysis.
- Working with RAPIDS / Apprenticeship.gov and other administrative datasets.
- Integrating BLS, Census, state workforce, and labor-market data.
- Reviewing methodology and threats to identification.
- Contributing to grant proposals and pre-analysis plans.
- Conducting or supervising empirical analysis if the project is funded.
- Contributing to academic manuscripts, research reports, and policy publications.
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