- Washington, DC, United States
- On-site
- Contract · Entry
The selected candidate will provide support to the Chief Economist Office with its program in labor economics, artificial intelligence, gender gaps, inequality, development, and climate change adaptation in preparation of their respective regional studies and policy-oriented research.
Responsibilities
- Assist the staff of the Chief Economist Office with analytical work such as collection of data, revision of literature, development of econometric estimates, and preparation of background notes for Regional Studies.
- Identification, compilation, cleaning, and organization of large-scale databases suitable for the study of relevant topics, including panel datasets, household and labor surveys, administrative records, and geospatial, climate, and environmental datasets (including satellite imagery).
- Conduct econometric analysis to the extent that it helps clarify and reinforce a point in a presentation, working paper, or report, especially applied microeconometrics, panel data methods, spatial data analysis, and impact evaluation models to assess causal effects.
- Review of academic literature on particular topics and on their respective empirical and theoretical developments as applied to developing countries, focusing on labor economics, artificial intelligence, gender gaps and inequality, education and social mobility, and environmental and health economics.
- Write efficient, reproducible code across all stages of the research process for microdata cleaning, descriptive and spatial analysis, and microeconometric modeling.