Senior Research Fellow - Occupational Licensing & Labor Mobility
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Workforce Intelligence LabLabor Economics Research
United StatesContractSenior
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- Required Skills
- PythonSQLData AnalysisR
Requirements
- Ph.D. or advanced doctoral training in economics, public policy, sociology, statistics, political science, or related quantitative field
- Demonstrated applied research experience
- Proficiency in R, Stata, Python, or SQL
- Strong understanding of causal identification and policy evaluation
- Experience working with large longitudinal, administrative, or survey datasets
- Strong written communication and methodological judgment
- Experience with Difference-in-Differences, staggered treatment designs, and event-study methods
- Experience with synthetic control, regression discontinuity, or instrumental variables
- Familiarity with CPS, ACS/PUMS, OEWS, QWI/LEHD, or Census microdata
- Expertise in occupational licensing, labor economics, or state policy evaluation
Responsibilities
- Refine research questions and causal estimands
- Evaluate treatment and comparison-group construction
- Perform Difference-in-Differences, staggered DiD, and event-study analysis
- Analyze CPS, ACS/PUMS, OEWS, and QWI/LEHD labor-market datasets
- Develop occupation and licensing-policy crosswalks
- Evaluate interstate mobility, employment, and wage outcomes
- Review methodology and threats to identification
- Contribute to grant proposals and pre-analysis plans
- Conduct empirical analysis and supervise research tasks
- Author academic manuscripts, research reports, and policy publications
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